Top Of The Tree - Demo - with home made vintage chocolate tin three string strummer

http://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/
Bit of a mid life crisis song, about getting older and stuff : -/...the music's quite upbeat though!.
I'm playing my vintage chocolate tin strummer, which can be seen better on this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-TgxtJ5yWK0

LYRICS

The sun comes UP, the sun goes DOWN,
and everything is changing all the time.

I breath IN, I breath OUT.
Now you're not here and nothing is the same.

I FILL my glass. I EMPTY it.
We all drink more since you are not around.

You were HERE, then you were GONE,
and I'm still trying hard to understand.

I was YOUNG, now I'm OLD,
and I am at the top of the tree.
Don't wannna be on top of the tree.
Not ready for the top of the tree!!

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Comment by FatBoy CooKen on December 13, 2012 at 8:11am

All through the lyrics I kept watching the clock on your wall.......it's 5 o'clock somewhere... cheers! ;)

Nice little diddy!!!

Comment by bemuzic on December 13, 2012 at 7:49am

thanks Maddog, yeah I think there's a few of us on here that are at the top of the tree!

Uncle John, it was you reminding me that I hadn't done a vid in a while that prompted me to do this one. Ha, that's not what my daughter says. When I hit fifty I was talking to her about being middle aged, and she said "You're not middle aged!" I asked her what I was, thinking she might be going to say that I was still young?? but no, she said "Most people don't live until they're 100...you're OLD" : -/

  thanks Stewy

Digly, thanks, lol did it look casual? It felt a bit panicked! 

BD, cheers..yeah the Cambridge sound with CBG and harp! I must play it more, it goes so well with CBG's..don't really know wtf I'm doing?!

thanks bug, ...ha, the looper doesn't do it for you! Keep practising that first loop : -)

Oh and thanks John re the harp...I can just manage a short burst here and there!

   

Comment by Uncle John on December 13, 2012 at 7:16am

Holey buckets, I added my comment before you picked up the harp.   Wow.   Good harp too!

Comment by BUGGY (C) on December 13, 2012 at 5:36am

Pure tallent...love it....

 

(why cant I get my looper to do that!!)

Comment by Diglydog on December 13, 2012 at 5:08am

Great song Be, and nice harp playing. I like the way you casually grab it off the top of the amp. 

Being on top of a tree isn't such a bad way to have a mid-life crisis - I've seen a lot worse :-)

Comment by Reeds Taylor on December 13, 2012 at 4:25am

great job Be.

Comment by Uncle John on December 13, 2012 at 4:21am

Current fave Bemuzic vid.

Comment by Uncle John on December 13, 2012 at 4:20am

You are NOT old.   Wonderful.   All of it.  You and the looper.   Great tune.  Poetic lyrics.   Your cool music room and a REAL wood fire.   Puts me in a good mood.   My current bemuzic vid. 

Comment by Maddog on December 13, 2012 at 4:19am

Very nice Be! I guess I never looked at it as being at the top of the tree, I am there :-(

P.S. The fire looks cozy.

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