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A starry-eyed trip at incredible rates!
Jack will be adding some narrative here about how this song came to be. It has been a fun endeavor. Our second offering on the Miller-Schletty label. First, on the road, now off into space!
[From Jack: "Chords and melody are from a song sketch that has been sitting on my computer for a few years. I made a demo with no lyrics (just singing the melody with "da,da,da's) and sent it to Rich and said, "Go ahead and write some lyrics. It's a fun kind of song." Well Rich was in a funk and sent back lyrics more fitting for a funeral dirge... So, I wrote back, "Lighten up dude, this is a fun, summertime nonsense kind of a song." Rich responded with a grand slam home run set of lyrics. Kudos Rich.
We didn't know what we were going to do during the instrument break. I had the idea of a kazoo. In the demo I just did a "lip trumpet." Rich added his own 'lip instruments." Finally I added the kazoo. Then Rich and I had a "fight" over the kazoo (of all things!). He wanted to drop it an octave to mimic a space alien. I wanted to keep it in the original octave. We ended up doing both and it is mostly likely the best outcome. LOL.
Special thanks to Dave Thomas (perceptualvortex) for jumping in and adding some really great drums.
And David Gomez, thank you for initiating your wonderful flourishes and additions and sending them to Rich... beautiful."]
© 2008 Music and lyrics Jack Miller (dadai) and Richard Schletty (rschletty). Vocals: Miller, Schletty. Guitars: Miller, David Gómez Sanz (magullo). Bass, synths, bells, steel drums,kazoo, and jangly things: Miller. Drums: via Drums on Demand, David Thomas (perceptualvortex). Mixing: Schletty.
Jack will be adding some narrative here about how this song came to be. It has been a fun endeavor. Our second offering on the Miller-Schletty label. First, on the road, now off into space!
[From Jack: "Chords and melody are from a song sketch that has been sitting on my computer for a few years. I made a demo with no lyrics (just singing the melody with "da,da,da's) and sent it to Rich and said, "Go ahead and write some lyrics. It's a fun kind of song." Well Rich was in a funk and sent back lyrics more fitting for a funeral dirge... So, I wrote back, "Lighten up dude, this is a fun, summertime nonsense kind of a song." Rich responded with a grand slam home run set of lyrics. Kudos Rich.
We didn't know what we were going to do during the instrument break. I had the idea of a kazoo. In the demo I just did a "lip trumpet." Rich added his own 'lip instruments." Finally I added the kazoo. Then Rich and I had a "fight" over the kazoo (of all things!). He wanted to drop it an octave to mimic a space alien. I wanted to keep it in the original octave. We ended up doing both and it is mostly likely the best outcome. LOL.
Special thanks to Dave Thomas (perceptualvortex) for jumping in and adding some really great drums.
And David Gomez, thank you for initiating your wonderful flourishes and additions and sending them to Rich... beautiful."]
© 2008 Music and lyrics Jack Miller (dadai) and Richard Schletty (rschletty). Vocals: Miller, Schletty. Guitars: Miller, David Gómez Sanz (magullo). Bass, synths, bells, steel drums,kazoo, and jangly things: Miller. Drums: via Drums on Demand, David Thomas (perceptualvortex). Mixing: Schletty.
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Lyrics
Lighten Up Now
Light up your face, gimme the nod
Think of a place where no one has trod
Ain't no place like space, our getaway home
We'll find us a gale to give us a bump
Giggle and wail, go thumpity thump
Let's sail along the silvery foam
[chorus]
We're takin' a ship to an outer space isle
where everything's hip, where the aliens smile
A starry-eyed trip at incredible rates (oh yeah)
Lighten up now, your sunbeam awaits
[break]
[chorus]
Lighten the load, baggage adrift
We caught the next dimensional rift
We're in the groove between our temporal lobes
Frequently flying high as the night
Living and dying way outta sight
Who needs the warmth of a changing globe?
[chorus]
© 2008 Music and lyrics Jack Miller and Richard Schletty
Light up your face, gimme the nod
Think of a place where no one has trod
Ain't no place like space, our getaway home
We'll find us a gale to give us a bump
Giggle and wail, go thumpity thump
Let's sail along the silvery foam
[chorus]
We're takin' a ship to an outer space isle
where everything's hip, where the aliens smile
A starry-eyed trip at incredible rates (oh yeah)
Lighten up now, your sunbeam awaits
[break]
[chorus]
Lighten the load, baggage adrift
We caught the next dimensional rift
We're in the groove between our temporal lobes
Frequently flying high as the night
Living and dying way outta sight
Who needs the warmth of a changing globe?
[chorus]
© 2008 Music and lyrics Jack Miller and Richard Schletty
EEFliess
of something Moody Blues-ish...the vocal treatment is very much like Justin Hayward-John Lodge
I loved "Hittin' the Road", I love this one just as much if not more....
you nailed it again