My Old Coat, the newest song from my home studio...

This is the newest song to come from my studio and is a new effort for me.  I am learning how to use the "piano roll" and "Score" midi editors in my DAW and Logic Pro 9, the software I use to track and master. I wanted this song to be a simple guitar track with strings for the sole backup.  I also recorded the lead and backing vocal myself. This is the fourth test burn...I still need to work on "swells" in the string parts and perfect the mix, but it's a work in progress!  I never finalize everything until I have all the songs recorded for the album because I want to do that all at once from the pre-mixes to give them a cohesive feel and sound.  Thanks for listening and comments!

Here are the lyrics:

My Old Coat              

When we were strangers somehow you seemed to know

How the cold will reach right in, and wrap around our souls

Now only you can warm me, warm me to my core

And my old coat can’t keep me warm anymore

Sometimes a love story is written to be read

Sometimes the silence, is all that needs to be said

The heat rises to the ceiling, but it’s cold here on the floor

And my old coat can’t keep me warm anymore

In the desert the sun is all you can think about

On the frozen tundra it’s the sun you can’t live without

You are the warmth   behind our doors

And my old coat can’t keep me warm anymore

When we were strangers somehow you seemed to know

How the cold will reach right in, and wrap around our souls

Now only you can warm me, warm me to my core

And my old coat can’t keep me warm anymore

Copyright M. Edward Sparks & Pepperland Productions  2010