One Year Ago...

...I wrote a song on my birthday.

That song was the first song I had written in quite a while.

"Another year has passed me by, but am I closer to my goal
Or one breath closer to the day my body rests and leaves my soul?"

So the first verse began, and so it remains still. Many other parts however, have been changed, re-arranged and then changed back again. This song, currently called "Drifting Away", seemed to have so much potential at the time. Now I see many faults with it. The frustrating thing is I don't know how to fix it.

I think most of the problem is the that I can't get the mix sound right. Although there are a couple of lyrics that definitely could be improved. The truth is that it has been so long now that I am somewhat over the song. And so the question is this: Take the time to fix the song or just move on to new material?

The sad thing is that in the year since I penned that song, I have written much less new material than I had hoped to. I had hoped to finish a new studio album by this summer. Summer will now be over in a few days and I am not much further along than I was a year ago. With the "recording studio" becoming the nursery, it really couldn't be avoided I suppose. In recent weeks, we have done some re-arranging of the furniture which has created a way for me to record once again.

So this blog will be a record of the creative process that will go into this recording. I don't know who will even care to read this but myself and I suppose it doesn't really matter.