Hey there... Hope you're having a great Monday...
So, I just wanted to check in and let you know I posted 2 new videos today - acoustic covers of 'The Only Hope For Me Is You' (My Chemical Romance) and 'The End' (Kings Of Leon). You can click below to check them out...
As to the songs themselves... The Only Hope, especially, really struck a chord with me. Ever since you began (thankfully) connecting with my own work as a songwriter, it's been such an amazing thing to realize that the listener's interpretation... YOUR interpretation... really is everything. I can write songs from my own life experience and observations, but how YOU hear those words... that's what ultimately matters.
Anyway, that said, my own interpretation of this song could be worlds away from why it was actually written... but with lyrics like:
Where will we stand?
When all the lights go out
Across these city streets
Where were you when
All of the embers fell
I still remember there
Covered in ash
Covered in glass
Covered... and all my friends
I still think of the bombs they built...
...I can't help but think of events such as 9/11. Or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or any one of the many disasters we seem to hear about on an hourly basis these days... And, I guess what I connected with in this song is that, in those situations... without fail... it's always... ALWAYS people coming together that enables us to overcome. Put quite simply... the only hope for me is you.
Ok... pretty sure with that I've now landed squarely in Hallmark-card-cliche-land (cue slo-mo of adorable puppy bounding across field of lilacs, please... :), but many of you have asked why I pick the covers I do... and well... there's the reason behind one of them, at least. :)
Anyway, thanks for checking them out (and, as always, sharing with your Facebook friends, etc.). Have a good one, and we'll talk soon...
Gavin
Ps - If you watch all the way to the end of the videos, you'll see links to my various video playlists as well as info on how to get some of my songs for free, etc... just sayin'... :)
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