Darkside Of The Room

Being honest. Jay is carrying me to the end of this project. I love the Calendar Project but at the end of five years I'm getting by with a little help from my friends. Jay very early in the month had this song written and demoed instrumentally. It was my task to write words and deliver vocals. I found it hard to motivate myself. Many other slices of life's pie have been taking my attention. That is despite the fact that I really want to end the Calendar Project strong. Thankfully what Jay had for me was good.
When I did finally get to work on the song the melody leaped out at me. I didn't want to make it a cliche' love song (even though the riff was begging for it.) I spent some time conceptualizing the themes. As certain lines revealed themselves to me the story just unfolded. It ended up being about a husband waiting by the bedside of his wife who is in a coma. I wanted the story to stay positive so I let her wake up at the end of the song. When that happened I needed my wife Kate to sing the wife in our story's narrative. She of course did a fantastic job. Then I laid down the solo and other little bits of lead guitar.I think what we ended up with is real strong folk song. Finger picking and a story with characters included.
I really do want the Calendar Project to end strong. Jay has been doing a lot of the heavy lifting lately. Kate really helped me clinch this month by staying up late with me and singing. It's been a great five years but I definitely couldn't have done it with out all the help of gotten along the way. I owe it to everyone who has contributed to this audio-blog to give it a proper send off. I'm gonna try with little help from my friends, to wrap this year up right.

Darkside Of The Room