[Originally posted February 2013 @kat330 / deleted there for upload time / retained listener comments below]
While noodling on a newer toy (Epiphone Special II) in my musical instrument array, I decided to record myself back in early February 2013 strumming a rendition of "Fixin' to Die." The year had begun on a roll, but there was a sad blindside to the soul before I got around to recording any vocals for it. Well then, Dylan's / Bukka White's lyrics felt too dark for the place I was pushed aside to, so I set about writing new words in a very different direction, adding acoustic guitar as well as a couple of melodica and harmony tracks.
My opening verse arose from something JT and I discovered early on in our pixel-ated courtship: We share the exact same sensation and physical experience of flying within our dreams. Rather than horizontally soaring like a bird or Superman, we both "fly" in an upright position, and the sensation is more of leaping up to a height and maintaining altitude through a momentum of bounding and skipping thrusts. And that moment of wonder-filled revelation forever bound us as soulmates to one another.
Well, I woke up this mornin’
Wondrin’ what had I seen?
I threw back the blanket
Recallin’ that I had dreamed
I’d been boundin’ and a-skippin’
Over oceans and forests of trees.
I shiver in the shower now
And figure I’m fixin’ to live.
Cold water washes closed eyes
That see how I’m fixin’ to live
And wondrin’ on the right way
To deliver (to deliver) and give.
So I step out my back door,
For I’m fixin’ to be free (to be free).
I look toward the sunrise
Beyond an old (an old) oak tree.
It’s shinin’ on a new day,
A wide world of possibilities.
16 comments
Lee >>> Lucas says at 2:58: Well Kat you certainly handled all the instrumentation very well indeed and put it all together wonderfully, and your voice words and harmonies done the bizzo. Cracking stuff and a cracking song here...
@lee-lucas: As always, Lee, your kind words mean my morning is Fixin' to be cracking swell indeed!
Lee >>> Lucas says at 1:22: The melody actually sounds close to an Harmonica in some ways.. Certainly fixing that :))))))))))
Lee >>> Lucas says at 0:10: Your opening harmonies and the melody sounds like your coming in on a train here Kat and very cool indeed...
@lee-lucas: Aha! You figured out my loco-motives! ;) Thanks, Mr. Lee!
Leo Capitanelli says at 3:10: I listening yours songs from another part of the world.. Sounds like a tales. Beautiful. Mara from Leonardo soundcloud
@leocapitanelli: Gracias y gracias por su comentario en Inglés! :)
Gui Junq'S says at 1:41: amazing sound! amazing Kat
@guijunqs: Thank you—again and again—Gui!
Gui Junq'S says at 1:41: @kat330: :D
tkalec says at 2:42: Great vibe, love it!
@tkalec: TY, tk!
Jim Platts Rhythm Innov says at 2:49: you rock it girl!!!
Jim Platts Rhythm Innov says at 0:24: amazing sound love it reminds me of Led Zeppelin 3
Jim Platts Rhythm Innov says at 0:06: love it..
@jim-platts-rhythm-innov: Wow, Jim, don't know what space I was in 6 months ago -- actually I do, and it was a hard time -- but my sincerest apologies for never responding to your trifecta of kind words on this little track. THANK YOU x3!!! :)
