What do the Cape songs mean to you?

[lebouche]

Writer or listener.

Where did they come from....where did they go?


:)

[lebouche]

also..I have to mention...inspiration.

Cape makes me want to work harder.

Write about that if you like...... getting better.

I also like being reminded that at the end of the rainbow there is magic:)

[5down1up]

No.V was my first cape experience. The real cool part of it are the people in your team, at least thats how it was for me !

You can forget about the way you would do it, it will not work out the way you think it should be done. The result will be totaly different to your own vision. It is a team game with all the single individuals involved making those 3 month as exciting as possible.

But in the end, you gotta get that shit done, it doesnt matter how, no excuses.

It was as chaotic as it could get, but in the end we reached the goal line. It proofed just once again, thats theres a HUGHE amount of talent out there and that a team can work it out even if they do it together for the first time with a " VERY VERY " short amount of time.

So the ovations go to my teammates TSTW, OTEK, IAN-H, JUERGEN & DAVID AURORA !

And i also want to mention that i highly respect the kind words of all the WOMB members to all the CAPE V tracks.
I am to biased to really give a comment about all the tracks, but i experienced the way of working under CAPE circuimstances.

... so we are looking into a golden future, with a massive amount of talent and creativity available.

Keep on rollin´& Power to those people ! :Thumbsup:

[Carlo]

In short, "Bed Ain't the Same" was coming from the place of relationships that were on the rocks...not just violence, but fear nonetheless...and the remorse associated with trying to get your old lady back.

I've never hit a woman, but I sure have pissed some off...so I can relate.

I guess I will always be drawn to the dark forces in music, as far as lyrical content...it just seems like there is so much pain that screams to be aknowledged...of course, that can make ya a bit hard to live with!:Roll eyes:

[chckn8r]

"Belly of the Beast" came out of a collaboration between myself and a wonderful singer in Seattle - Julie Mains.

I had a basic verse-chorus-yadda-yadda version of the tune with the main riff you hear at the beginning and we thought some "anger management" lyrics would go nicely with it - something with a bit of spite and venom. ;)

Julie had some ideas about a situation she'd been in just before we wrote the song where she finally gave the heave-ho to her (then) best friend who was essentially taking advantage of her. It's essentially a live-with-the-consequences-of-your-own-actions-cause-I'm-not-sticking-up-for-you-again song

... in a nutshell.

[EyreSpace]

In my life, one day easily runs into another. Between endless recording sessions and week-end gigging, I don't spend much time listening to music anymore.

(Kinda like a prostitute doesn't go home at the end of the day looking for sex!)

Fixing poor performances of shabby musicians, playing the same cover tunes for the umpteenth time...

I often forget what inspired me in the first place.

A song. A singer. A story. A great performance.

Hearing demos from some of the songs puts it in perspective. Stripped back, no production, just a naked singer and a song. An emotional performance, Trazan's guitar demo is a masterpiece.

I'm a sucker for the confessional introspective. This Cape has them a-plenty. I guess that's a good thing for me!

(I keep waiting for someone to recognize that I don't belong in here and show me the door. Shhh, don't tell anyone....)

Thanks for the songs everyone!

[bunnerabb]

(I keep waiting for someone to recognize that I don't belong in here and show me the door. Shhh, don't tell anyone....)

k.

[Grapestomper]

I described "Disconnection" to my team as "A zen love song".

It comes from the fact that my girlfriend lives a long way away. We see each other several times a year for a few weeks or a month, and then there is the inevitable "airport day": the day we have to say goodbye.

The song is about two people dealing in different ways with the pain of their separation, followed by a third verse which suggests that all separation is imaginary.




It was an odd songwriting experience in that the first verse-chorus came to me out of the blue, all the words and the melody complete... all I had to do was figure out the chords.

Then I struggled with the second verse-chorus for months. The patterns of meter and alliteration (there is no rhyme in the song) that the first verse had established were very constraining, and it was like pulling teeth trying to come up with something to follow it that didn't suck. I struggled through, and eventually I had the second verse-chorus... but I rather despaired of being able to come up with a concluding verse.

...and then one night the same magic voice that had whispered the first verse in my ear came back and handed me the third; the whole thing in one go and that was it.


A very interesting experience, actually. I've spent more than a few hours wondering what that 'magic voice' is, and where it comes from...

M

[EyreSpace]

psst - the voices come from JG

[dwoz]

The Hinterland lyrics were a few days coming.

It isn't necessarily a man/woman relationship thing...its more like about loosing your PASSION because of outside, ill-informed and self-aggrandizing kibitzing in your life.

dwoz

[Dr. Bob]

Writer or listener.

Where did they come from....where did they go?


:)

Not gonna pretend to speak for the big guy... but my guess is they came from...






A really good bottle of Crown!








and oh yeah....


I think they went to the bar for another pitcher of beer!

[emtou2u]

A very interesting experience, actually. I've spent more than a few hours wondering what that 'magic voice' is, and where it comes from...

M




M....i love the inspiration behind your song...

and the quote above is a perfect topic to accompany any number of the wonderful bottles of inebriant i'm sure you have lying about...

[Swafford]

I wrote the lyrics for Where Rivers Meet on a plane somewhere over eastern Wyoming, I think, as the Rocky Mtns. turn in to the central plains. I was on my way home after being in San Francisco and had a lay over in Salt Lake City. As I was waiting for my connection, the Murrow Building bombing in Oklahoma City was breaking on CNN. I thought a lot about the pictures of the gaping hole in that building as I gazed out the window and, I dunno, out came a metaphor for human connectivity and a heartache ode to my wife. Go figure. The last time I got on a plane, too.

[Carlo]

... but I rather despaired of being able to come up with a concluding verse.
...and then one night the same magic voice that had whispered the first verse in my ear came back and handed me the third; the whole thing in one go and that was it.

A very interesting experience, actually. I've spent more than a few hours wondering what that 'magic voice' is, and where it comes from...

M

That's who I leave cookies and milk out for!

[jerryskid]

That's who I leave cookies and milk out for!


(munching)....Oh....sorry, I thought they were for everyone...:Redface: