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Quick note: Next week is our LAST song in our song a week project!  Stay tuned!

This last week I was listening to science Friday on NPR and there was a professor being interviewed about his idea to send astronauts on a one-way mission to mars.  He was talking about how much money we would save if we didn’t have to worry about the trip back home.  He said, “To boldly go where no one has gone before does not require coming home again.”

This got me thinking.  Can you imagine what Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were thinking being the very first people to step foot on the moon.  Outside of educated guesses they had no idea what would come of them when they opened that hatch.

As I searched the web for some audio clips to use for this song, I came across this speech that was revealed in 1999.  It was to be used in the event of a disaster that would maroon the astronauts on the moon.

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man’s search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.

original picture from Omar Eduardo

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Well here we are #50!  Pretty crazy!  We only have 2 more songs to go before we have done this song a week thing for a whole stinkin’ year!  We’re pretty stoked.  We set out to do this for 6 months but kept going.

Tim sent over the keyboard and rhythm tracks and I went to work Saturday putting words and a melody to it.  It was a lot of fun to write lyrically.  What do you think it’s about?

PS Today is the last day to try to win a free Tee.

“Oblivious”

lyrics by Patrick Largen

The morning is gone
But I have not moved on
And if all this is important to you

I will bring you a song
I wrote before the dawn
When all were oblivious to

Like a whisper in the ear
your reflection in the mirror
your presence is over due

The words hit like a drum
Like a wave the melody comes
All happening on cue

Black notes on a page
With ink you can’t erase
The chorus is painted blue

The evening has come
And taken the son
We all were oblivious too

original picture from Atilla

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I recently read a book that has been like a tornado through my soul, tearing out old rusty ideas and ideologies that I’ve held onto for years.  Like many people feel after having an uprooting like this, going back to the way things were isn’t an option.  In this case I’m glad for that.
Tim wrote these lyrics and after I sang them I realized that this is how the last week has felt for me.  I picked up the book Blue Like Jazz and couldn’t put it down.  Donald Miller writes as if he’s sitting across the table from you, and putting the book down was like ending the conversation with a good friend.  (Yeah, that was cheesy, but that’s how it felt.)  I highly recommend it.

“Tornado”

lyrics by Tim Seley and Patrick Largen

the tornado came
blew away my holy name
blew away my holy name
last year

it tore through the town
ripped the trees up from the ground
ripped the trees out of the ground

and everybody shook their heads
said what a shame, what a shame
all this just won’t go away
and even we want it to

what a shame

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As I look back at the last few months of songs, I’m surprised at what has come out of me.  Lots of somewhat depressing songs, which I’m really okay with, just curious about.  But this week a love song came out.

We put off working on these songs later and later each week and as a result, limit ourselves on what we can improve on.  I’m looking forward to going back and spending more time on this one.  I think it has a lot of potential, but because it was a last minute creation the recording quality is pretty poor.  (I ended up just setting a mic up and recording it in one pass and then going back and adding a beat.) BUT, in some ways that’s the beauty of the song a week project.  Each week is different and has lots of room for improvement.

Tim was on vacation this week in Colorado, so you only get me on this one.   Enjoy!

“More Than That”

lyrics by Patrick Largen

now the summers gone
all I think about
is being with you again

here the winter comes
I can feel the cold
closing in

and all of these memories
being with a friend
chase the pain away

this has gotta be
all that’s left of me
and all I’ve gotta say

it’s how you walk in the room and change the color of the air
and as time stands still and all the people stop and stare
it’s how you tilt your head when your eyes meet mine
it’s these and million things that combine

I love you more than that

like the way your waist feels when we sway to the song
my heart must know as it loudly beats along
it’s how you mumble when you don’t know the words to sing
it’s these and a million other things

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It’s pretty crazy that we are on week 47.  It’s been quite the journey.  This song is a very simple “singer/songwriter” kind of tune and Tim got to use his new Taylor guitar on it.  (can you tell I have nothing to say about it????) We hope you enjoy it!  Peace

“The Only One”

lyrics by Patrick Largen

you put a fire in my heart when I saw you
and I completely fell apart and wondered if you were
the only one for me
the only one for me

you put a ring on my hand and I will take you
to a place with oceans and sand I’ll take you away
and I will never ever be the same as long as you are holding me

cause you are the only one for me
the only one for me
the only one for me

photo taken from jjjohn

It’s Commentary time!!!! For the commentary to If All Goes Well, you’ll need to subscribe to the podcast (and give us a 5 star rating if you feel so inclined…) But you can listen to our commentary for Lonely Word right here!

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We’re going to try something different this week (yeah big surprise, huh?)  We’re going to create a song using your noises.  So, whether you have ideas of different noises (crumpled paper, breaking glass, honking horns, etc..) that we can go record or you have actual sound bites you want to send us,we’re going to take those and create a song this week.  Making something beautiful out of Chaos.  Should be fun.

SO SEND US YOUR NOISES BY:

1. Leaving a comment with your noise idea.
2. Emailing any audio files to twosecondsaway (at) twosecondsaway (dot) com
3. Use the little video commenting feature we just installed to record your sound (we’ll say this is in “beta”)

Katie H. sent us a recording of her new Zebra Finches.  Take a listen! Thanks Katie!

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If this song were a person it would be an ethereal Forest Gump, I’m convinced. Tim and I laugh at how much our songs change from start to finish. This song is no different. And since we tried to post our additions you can hear how it evolved. Click to hear earlier versions.

Lonely Word lyrics by Patrick largen

Old is such a lonely word

Before the silence will break me
Before the road is gonna take me
Oh the irony of it all
That it happens to us all

Old is such a lonely word

Spend my whole life believing
In a God who needs believed in
Oh the irony of it all
From this hospice bed I call

photo by Dhammza

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