The Sunday Song: Carry The Message

I wrote this song a few weeks ago, and have been too busy on the weekends to sit down and record it. Today I finally got the chance, so here it is.

This was one of those tunes that sort of clicked together with very little effort, for some reason. The first version, believe it or not, kinda had a disco beat (no, I don’t know why). Then I bluesed it up a little. Then I wrote a semi-Spanish-sounding guitar solo. Then I left for a conference, and hoped I wouldn’t forget it all.

Looks like I didn’t… so here’s a fairly quick take on it.

Carry The Message

Well the world is full of gadgets, gotten kinda tragic
And the magic is fallen on the floor
Signals in the airwaves filling up with static
And the message is blinking the door
But here we are all alone
We got a connection and skin’s electric tension
To carry our messages home

We can live in parallel, each in our diving bell
Throwing glances over the room
Stealing hands and some caresses, you couldn’t tell we used to
Be each other’s doom
But we’re never quite alone
If connections are weaker then life’s gotten bleaker
And our messages aren’t making it home

Here we are all alone, so carry my message home

We got our seams and scars, gotta push it too far,
Seize whatever days are left
The globe is getting warmer, the seas are gonna rise
We’re gonna end up out of our depth
Can’t float our ways off alone
Gotta keep hold of hands while we search for land
And carry our messages home

Solo

No man is an island, but the straits have gotten dire
The current’s riptide and we drown
We drift apart like accidents
We don’t mean to sever anything but
Here we are all alone
I got a message for you, desperate too
Let’s play it to the bone

Chorus

Nothing tween us but air baby
it is the occasion of sin
We can reach out with our tentative hearts and
Slide skin over skin
Tune out the noise and the craze
Let’s do this invention, complete this connection
And listen to this message for days

How to play: well, really, it’s Em7, Am7, Cmaj7 to C7/9, and B7 to B7/9. That’s about it. But the key to the sound is the fingerings for the Em7 and Am7.

Em7: 070980

Am7: 5×0555

C: 032000 to 032330

B: 021200 to 021230