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Doug Davis - Rosemary

from Round 23, Week 6 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Got a good jump on my pop tune this week but ran out of time to bring it home. Been working a lot with the DX7 this round, so this track started with the venerable DX7 marimba patch. I tracked it hot and let it stay a little "cooked," since the DX7 is so often associated with the first wave of super-clean digital synths. After that, I brought in lots of Arturia Prophets and Oberheims and Jupiters and even brought in my beloved "Dominator" patch from Logic's EXS24 sampler, which I have been, um, known to overuse a bit on pop tracks.

But the tune stalled out at the lyric stage, without a doubt. I couldn't find any particular resonance I could work with for the "rosemary" prompt. Being a good English major, I started with Ophelia's unhinged line from Hamlet: "There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember." So that opened the door for all kinds of madness and sorrow, but then the lyric never really went anywhere. The door is still open there, though, for a rewrite.

lyrics

I think you’ve lost to will to change the way you see you
I wish you had the sight to see the you that I do

this love you claim you lost your hold on in the deep dark
There’s nothing you can’t find, if you can light your own spark

I’ve been down this road before

and I can lose that crown

but you, my friend, won’t hurt no more
I can’t let you drown
standing on your own ground

Rosemary, I pray you will remember

I will not let you go

so very summer til September

lost in the afterglow

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from Round 23, Week 6, released July 22, 2019

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