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Fill it up - Broken cup

from Another for the Birds - 4 track demo by Tony Farris

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This song is from an experimental period. I had just been introduced to maj7 chords and also was playing around with different voicings of chords.
In the chorus, the 4 chords changes are actually only 2 chords, just each with 2 separate voicings. (Cmaj7 and Fmaj7)

I also learned to do a fast spoken word vocal style for this song.
Tip For those wishing to learn this style: the main focus is on pronouncing the consonants. The vowels seem to come naturally.

Also, a little backstory
This song started due to an inspirational experience with a very young boy who showed me some artwork of houses, saying they were homes. He then pointed to his chest and asked me to listen, I put my ear up to him and heard his heartbeat while he told me that was his home. He walked me over to his father's guitar and amplifier and told me that was his dad's home. Then he asked me if he could see my home some day. I was a bit dumbfounded by the whole experience to say the least, this kid was 5! That night, I started my journal entry with "this is a home, this is a heart" and the rest of the song followed.

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This is a home this is a heart
Can you feel it stop to reach for love
Reach to fill it up

The cup, it always seems to break halfway
And what you make of the rest is what you make of today
So what do you say

Chorus:
Its all just fantasy
Just a dream a dream made
Born from anxiety
It's getting hard to believe
But the winds are blowing strong
To bring me back to my own arms

We ask for time we've got a wrist watch
The hands tick and point as we just watch
To try to fit the design we create on the daily
Are you seeing this plainly

We say that we're free
as we trap ourselves I our own devices
We're screaming and shouting
Claiming every molehill as a crisis
We say that we're free
We say we can see
We say we can be anything
Just as soon as we get up our of our seat

Can we say that love is an attitude
And not simply an attribute
Can we agree that change is ours to make
Ours to take, and ours to create
By bending the lense for happiness sake
Can we stop pretending our smiles
Are nothing more than fake

Chorus

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from Another for the Birds - 4 track demo, released March 1, 2018

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Tony Farris Hopewell, Virginia

Tony Farris is a singer/songwriter residing in the town of Hopewell, Va. Inspired greatly by the Folk Boom music of the 60's up into the psychedelia movement, Progressive rock, grunge and garage rock, the list goes on. His music is carefully arranged, descriptive and mysterious in nature. Certainly a story teller that show's you, rather than tells you. ... more

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