Pacing…

Pacing… Another old one…getting on about 20 years now I guess. A song about staying up too late and fighting demons. Definitely a reoccurring theme throughout my life. When the dang brain won’t shut off and everything is quiet…ugh, just feels like I’m pacing around inside my head. Had the lyrics all done, but the guitar part just never felt right. I was playing it in a more funky style, with some 7th chords and twiddly bits in between. It went ok, but it also sounded a hell of a lot like a number of my other songs, especially from around that same time. So it got buried in my notebook and never really made its way back out. Found it about a month ago, and wondered if I could just scrap the music and find something else to play. Tried a few things, but nothing jumped out. Then I was just fiddling around on my guitar while I listened to an audiobook (one of my favorite pastimes…somewhere between practice and playing a soundtrack. I can amuse myself for hours…) and stumbled onto this riff. Paused the book, pulled over my old notebook and started singing along. Had most of it done in about 20 minutes. Love it when that happens…