Showing posts with label songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label songs. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Creating: Music, Lyrics, Writing

Once the fire of creativity makes its way through your veins and nerves and senses...
it's hard to make it stop. It is hard to go back to being a machine.
You're on bursting with ideas, potential, and it flows through you.

You can feel more, hear more, sense more, taste more...
Appreciate more
And then you meet the brick in the wall.

You can't make them see your light, your spirit; they are stuck.
Once you set a spark of creativity and imagination on to them, however you do it might be tricky...
It will slowly carve it's way through them... if left un-nourished it may diminish once again. So keep the fire of life, imagination, creativity burning.

Some of us get jaded, and like a smoothed rock we sit. We have become passive and complacent. We forget how to fight. Life threw too many difficult hurdles our way, too many loses, too many defeats. The bar was set too high, or the road was too long and winded. The task was too complex and difficult, we lost the battle of the wits. We gave up. Where did the fire go?

Like the Olympic flame, like the Olympians, we can not let that hope fade away.... If we fall, we get up, in time. We must learn from these creatures... and keep trying till we perfect ourselves. Not get distracted by the shiny objects that are there to throw us off the balance beam, not slow down to give into some temptation, not err just because we made a small mistake previously.

We can get back up. We can feel renewed, stand up, and start imagining; then creating.... then actualizing, achieving.




I once asked a very famous Indian music composer and a very famous Indian lyricist, "how do you know which song to put to this tune or that tune?" It is the strangest stupidest question ever however I now know the answer. And to those of you who didn't understand my question, I meant to ask when writing lyrics, how do you figure out what tune to put it to? And when writing a piece of music how do you know what lyrics to put to it. That is for the artist to decide. I know now the secret to this special ability. I won't forget their quizzical faces, or the music producer's reaction!


Breathe!







Wednesday, June 13, 2012

If The Dam Breaks

The water pressure builds
The rain pours
The reservoir fills and fills
How can it hold back much more?

If the dam breaks
There will be devastation
If the dam breaks
There's no knowing how much damage will be done
If the dam does not hold up
We may not be able to recover what is lost.

First it was a drizzle
There there was rain
The thunder began roaring
The lighting - shooting pain.

There's a leak

There is a creak and crack
It's gonna crash
let the floods begin.

If the dam breaks
There will be devastation
If the dam breaks
There's no knowing how much damage will be done
If the dam does not hold up
We may not be able to recover what is lost.

If the dam breaks
Everything will be washed away
If the dam breaks
Will we survive the wrath?
After the floods
Will we be able to start  anew?

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

A Weekend In NYC

A lovely weekend in NYC with family and friends!

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Piyali dances with Fire!
My sister performs for us with fire (this is only her second time doing it with actual fire. Please do not try this at home!)

Toni Sings
Toni Tone my sister's friend sings in the dark night, at my uncle's place in Long Island.

Besame Mucho in the Park
This was under my sister's favorite tree in central park.