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Let You Down by soulmonk [Email]
Genre: Acoustic

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Last Played: May 24, 2008 - 08:36:44 PM
Downloads: 52
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Uploaded: Apr 16, 2007 - 10:02:37 PM
Last Updated: Apr 22, 2007 - 07:06:17 PM
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Description:
Occasionally... I like to break out the acoustic and write a sappy love song... This song doesn't really go with anything else that I've posted here but... What the hell.

Lyrics:
Here I am...
to voice my intimate surrender.
To my love of many years...
I hope in days to come
You won't remember the tears.

It's not that I'm letting go...
But I can't wait for you to know.
While another crawls into your bed...
I hold these thoughts inside my head.
With this kiss I will resign...
My heart
My soul
My everything...
So you could try to find
True love away from me.

And I pray...
The tears that you have shed for me,
will soon evaporate.
and I know... I was just too late.
I waited too long to come to...
And now I lost my everything.

I know I let you down
As I wandered in my haste.
I know I have to try...
to let you go your way.
It seems I had to find...
My love for you in tears...
and now I realized...
You've loved me through these years.

Here I am...
to voice my intimate surrender.
To my love of many years...
I hope in days to come
You won't remember...

In time I hope to see...
the beauty that surrounded me will...
Take my hand
Take my heart
Take me in... and let start to love...
My angel that I have set free...
I was blind, but now I see.
You have always held a part of me.

And I pray...
The tears that you have shed for me,
will soon evaporate.
and I know... I was just too late.
I waited too long to come to...
And now I lost my everything.

I know I let you down
As I wandered in my haste.
I know I have to try...
to let you go your way.
It seems I had to find...
My love for you in tears...
and now I realized...
You've loved me through these years.

Here I am...
to voice my intimate surrender.
To my love of many years...
I hope in days to come...



Hardware:
M-auio I/O - Gibson guitars - AKG mic

Software:
Cubase
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so cool &mdash 04/16/07 - 10:19:08 PM
Hey, this is great. The music is just right, I have problems with OVERdoing stuff and this is just the right amount, beauty in restraint. As far as the siinging, i think youre channeling a good mix between ryan adams and early howie day, im impressed

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Unexpected from you, &mdash 04/17/07 - 12:30:33 AM
but cool love song James, very nice guitar sounds, and your vox works really well in this genre. Not crazy about the spoken intro, but who cares : ) Love Supply might have done this well : )
Neil

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Hey! Nice voice... &mdash 04/17/07 - 04:37:00 PM
...and I mean, REALLY nice voice...

I like the repeating acoustic lead line, and I like the generally bright tone of the acoustic...

This is a nicely written song. The melody and lyrics are really strong. I'm trying to place the intro... 'Phenomenon', I think...

A tiny crit is that I think, maybe because of close-mic'ing and/or compression, I think the vocal picks up a few mouth noises...

I'm impressed... nice change-up...

Ed

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hmmmm... Movie-buff? &mdash 04/17/07 - 05:04:01 PM
You are correct. It is Phenomenon. This song was initially a letter to a X. The "Phenomenon" reference is a "inside" thing. Thanks for your support and encouragement. It is greatly appreciated.

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Peace and Tacobell

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impressive &mdash 04/19/07 - 08:29:02 PM
When you can strip it down and lay it out there completely exposed, it shows a real compfort with the craft... and this was a very enjoyable listen... really nicely performed and well sung....

I would like to read the lyric... what I heard sounded worth it... it's not your fault... I don't have the greatest ears...

I do have a small nit-pic... when we sing with our selves we are duplicateing a sonic thumbprint... so any thing we can do to separate the voices... the harmony vocal could have been panned a little off to either side... both voices seemed to occupy the same space in my stereo field... but that's easily fixed

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Echoes that haunt &mdash 04/21/07 - 10:14:05 AM
I love this intimate sound. Very well recorded, simply and directly written, and honestly performed. I agree with Scott about posting lyrics, and about differentiating self-same backing vocals with color, reverb, pan, a some combination (my ears wanted the backing harmony to be slightly left). The little echo is a very nice detail, both musically and thematically. Wonderful track.

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Oh how nice .... &mdash 04/22/07 - 02:50:08 PM
... I always love a good old acoustic love song ... and I gotta say ... that backing falsetto harmony gave me goosebumps .... your voice has that fabulous smoky tone to it that makes it perfect for this type of music. (Did I hear you take a gulp of beer somewhere in the middle there?) ... heh heh I am also a big fan of having the lyrics posted .. this way we can sing (er .. I mean read) along as we listen.

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