{"id":842,"date":"2010-03-11T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-03-11T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:35:53","slug":"the-poor-mans-lullaby-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"“The Poor Man’s Lullaby” song"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Sleeves<\/figcaption><\/figure>Continuing the normal voice thing. I’m gonna have to come up with a new name…maybe Sam Sleeves. He could be Sherwin’s very young nephew… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyway, I wrote this song for an American Idol songwriting contest a little while back. I thought it might fun to try to write a pop song, to see if I intersected anywhere with the world of Big Contemporary Pop! <\/p>\n

And I don’t think I do…but Regie Hamm won with his song, Time of my Life<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Poor Man’s Lullaby is my mother’s favorite song of mine. She mentions it a lot and doesn’t understand why I can’t get a big record deal out of it. And she also doesn’t understand why I sing so many songs with dirt in my throat. <\/p>\n

Lois doesn’t like the chorus and I’ve tried to fix it. She has really good instincts and helps me with stories and music a lot. If she says something isn’t right, then I usually trust her. But songs are like cement and they set quickly. <\/p>\n

But here it is, The Poor Man’s Lullaby:<\/p>\n

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Lyrics:<\/p>\n

I walk the railway station at the end of the day
\nI watch the moon from the train but we can\u2019t pull away
\nIt follows close behind, like it slipped its lunar line<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t lock the cabin when I\u2019m sleeping I get lost in my dreams
\nI hear the ticket man, the passengers, the engineer
\nSing a poor man\u2019s lullaby, out of tune and out of time<\/p>\n

Did anybody lose me? Did anybody take me home? Did anybody lose me?
\nCause here I am wondering\u2026<\/p>\n

I take my luggage from the porter and then make for the street
\nI hear the echo of the automatic sound of my feet
\nTrailing close behind, like I\u2019m trampling over time<\/p>\n

From the sun to the moon and from the earth to me
\nA distant tension like a silence how it makes me weep and
\nSing a poor man\u2019s lullaby, out of tune and out of time<\/p>\n

Did anybody lose me? Did anybody take me home? Did anybody lose me?
\nCause here I am wondering\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing the normal voice thing. I’m gonna have to come up with a new name…maybe Sam Sleeves. He could be Sherwin’s very young nephew… \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, I wrote this song for an American Idol songwriting contest a little while back. I thought it might fun to try to write a pop song, to see if …<\/p>\n

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