To Keep Me Comin' Back To You.mp3
Ok. This song was really my goal for this month, a love song to add to the ten others I've written my wife since we first were engaged.
One song a year to be delivered on or before Valentine's Day.
I think THIS was actually the first songwriting challenge, self-induced, that gave me a set time a song needed to be finished.
I am going to post the original version that I was going to settle on...until several newer ideas started flowing. I do this partially for the sake of the songwriting process (and what people go through to get to a more "finished" song) and partially for the history of it. I don't hate this version, but it doesn't feel as interesting as my first version.
To Keep Me Comin' Back To You
words and music by Steven Wesley Guiles
verse
I was looking out the window, I could not believe me eyes
You were walking rather slowly darlin', I was hypnotized
I am trying to remember when I last looked deep at you
I hope that you will pardon all this staring at my shoes
chorus
Daylight, pouring through the window of my
Old mind, changing because love has found a
Gold mine, filled up with the days and hours
You don't need a dozen flowers and I don't need no superpowers
To keep me comin' back to you
verse
I was looking out the window, I could not believe me eyes
You were walking rather slowly darlin', I was hypnotized
I am trying to remember when I last looked deep at you
I hope that you will pardon all this staring at my shoes
chorus
Daylight, pouring through the window of my
Old mind, changing because love has found a
Gold mine, filled up with the days and hours
I don't need no superpowers
To keep me comin' back to you
bridge
Don't look back now with regret
Thank you for the hardship, thank you for the tears
Thank you for the blessing, thank you for the years
Thank you for the break down, thank you for the rough patch,
Thank you for the bleeding, thank you for the relapse
Thank you for the trials, thank you for the tribulations
Thank you for the nosebleeds, thank you for the fascination,
Thank you for the promise, the promise, the promise...of you
chorus
Daylight, pouring through the window of my
Old mind, changing because love has found a
Gold mine, filled up with the days and hours
I don't need no superpowers
To keep me comin' back to you
To keep me comin' back to you
verse (reprise)
I was looking out the window, I could not believe my eyes.
To Keep Me Comin' Back To You.mp3
Here is an mp3 of the original idea that I was going to go with until another idea struck me:
To Keep Me Comin' Back To You - original demo
