I know I promised to get out the slide and get nasty, but instead I decided to stick with last time's Zelda music and deliver a full-blown power ballad.

http://www.cba.ua.edu/~matt2/flvxx/8bit/sing_loud_sweet_stereo.mp3

Consider yourselves lucky to have gotten by with just a power balled. I had originally planned to write a genuine Gospel song, and attempt to sing 4-part harmony through the magic of overdubs, for the section starting at 3:22.

it must be fate but it should be a crime
my heart is yours but yours is not mine

i lost my mind and i'd give my soul
for a chance to have you once to hold

i know you love another man
and you are going to take his hand

sing loud sweet stereo
i need a little music to get me through the sad times

sing loud sweet stereo
i need a little music to get me through the bad times

hold me close just for one time
i want this memory to last lifetime

you can't understand what i feel for you
but that's ok you don't need to

i can live with separateness
as long as you find happiness

sing loud sweet stereo
i need a little music to get me through the sad times

sing loud sweet stereo
just a little music to get me through the bad times

and let the music that you play
help me fill the lonely days
with a little bit of love and light
a little bit of love and light

These lyrics were written when I was in high school, about a real girl, who shall remain nameless here. They were originally written to a different tune, but I think Koji Kondo's music fits them better than mine did.

The title the song comes from a Reader's Digest article I read back in the 1980's, a tear-jerker about your kids going away to college. It also had lines about "the hanging gardens of Disco" and "whenever you come to visit, there will always be a fatted calf in the freezer".

The "love and light" was inspired by a line in 1987 horror flick "The Gate". Go rent it.

i'll have to listen to this when i get home.

looks like someone used that reader's digest writing in a sermon. the text is linked under "the fleeting face of fatherhood" at
http://www.northcreek.org/resources/pgSermons2004.php

also, there is an audio recording of the sermon. maybe ripe for "sampling" ?

(scott)

The last two pages of that PDF basically are the article in question. The only thing they did was change "whatever happened to 1978" to "whatever happened to 1998".

They didn't even bother to excise the references to "disco", and "computer terminals", almost like it was edited by someone who actually didn't know that those things are anacronisms.

The original context of the line is so different from the context in which I used it, though, that it might best be left alone.

headphones cable was too short -- i listened to it at home on the auratones -- i like it -- the solo at about 3:10 reminds me of the last notes of
this famous solo.
(scott)