FAWM: "Love Light"

Love Light

2025 by @lbrewington

Liner Notes

Liner

I have recently found myself in a parked car for two hours weekly. I've taken advantage of this most dull of moments to write songs armed with nothing but a pen, a pad, and my guitalele. This song is the second one I've written in such a manner. I'm quite happy to have the ability, the time, and the privilege to do this and it warms my heart to no limit.

As far as the song itself, I'm not 100% sure what it is about. There is the theme of loving someone who doesn't love you, but there is also this element of feeling like the reason is that the life lived is unworthy of the love. A plea to look upon a life empty of free will and to love others simply for the fact that they are. A cry from someone unable to love themselves but desperately needing love to live.

Regardless, the genesis of the song was from the idea of "the time after birth", "spring", "life", which came from a reflection on the greek work "eiar", and how this word has wormed itself into my life without invitation.

#acoustic #onetake #singersongwriter #fawm #2025 #ntnto

Details

Written: 2/11/2025 Start: 5:00 - 5:30pm End: 6:30 - 7:00pm Record : 9:00 - 9:30pm

Notes

Messed up the seventh to last word but it was the best take so far so shipping it. Not hot on the start of the bridge but maybe it will grow on me or something else will come. A few lines should be reworked but trying to get this one recorded so I don't forget how it goes.

I'm having trouble coming up with a good title for this one, which is unusual for me, typical the titles write themselves. I settled on Love Light. Maybe it will stick.

Lyrics

[cp5 gt]

Am - G - F - G I'm still searching for the time after birth what good is this life if we don't live with love

as the crowd fades away done with the accolades that creeping feeling of loneliness is the only one i've known

i may be real simple measured in my thought and everything i do leaves dust upon my heart

   em          g

what right do the stars f am have to shine upon the moon em g what right does the moon f am have to shine upon the sun dm - g - am with what right do i seek your love tonight

you'll never go far when there's no place to go and the tallest of towers lives upon the dirt

i am no different then who you try to be the only difference is who is lying to who

i may be mediocre a true common man but every time your around my heart beats to this sound

[chorus]

bridge c - g -am springs gonna bring with a thaw and hopes once dashed will be found my heart will never forget your face my songs will never not sing your grace dm - g - am will you ever love me despite my faults dm - em - am will you ever love me despite my faults

[chorus]

Comments

@nancycunning 2025

Oh, another narrator with these defensive coping mechanism. I want to say that the stars don’t need to have a right and neither do you. I want there to be this floating gentle response maybe just a harmony that joins in on the last chorus - to bring out that idea that you don’t beed the right. Maybe even “What right do you need to feel my love tonight” with just her voice in the last line.

@jeff9 2025

"Dust upon my heart" is a great metaphor, Lee. Just one phrase among many here that really resonate. This verse, too, really hit me: you'll never go far/when there's no place to go/and the tallest of towers/lives upon the dirt. Deep thoughts while you're parked in that car making their way into a bona fide song. Well played, amigo.

@tcelliott 2025

I especially like the moon sun and star imagery in the chorus. Using questions to further the emotive point is a great take. You ask some big questions in this one. Big concept questions but brought home with emotion.

@lbrewington 2025

@billwhite51 I really love the concept of lovers running from each other through many space and time over many lifetimes. thanks for bringing that thought to the forefront on this one as it is perfect and also hopeful at the same time.

@billwhite51 2025

how do lovers find each other as they chase each other and run from each other through many lifetimes? in this song, you face the situation that occurs when one party recognizes the other but the other does not recognize him. and then searching for the reason why this is so. cosmic missed connections. what's it all about? i wonder about these things, perhaps in an unhealthy way. the chorus is my favorite section, but tis all good.