A song started with a title
I was in a local band rehearsing one night when the guitar player said “I always thought a cool name for a song would be Gray Sky, Gold Leaves.” That night the rest of the song came together for me and the next night I returned to rehearsal with not just chord charts, but sheet music courtesy of a this cool software I had. It could turn out sheet music with the exact fonts of commercial music.
One challenge during rehearsal is that the drummer wanted to hear how the drums went. I said there wasn’t a CD and he said “well can’t you find one?”. It took a while to explain that no CD existed, as I had just written it the night before. The sheet music was so commercial looking, the band thought it was just a song written by a guy with the same name as me.
A lyrical duality is worth noting. Summertime was a girl I knew. But the song also works with Summertime as a season.
Gray Sky, Gold Leaves, - © 2004 Brian Kelly
Tags: Brian Kelly, piano
