Tomorrow – Today – Song and a Chat

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Episode #11: Tomorrow – Today – (Song at 9:36 & 23:10)

I committed to writing a song each week years ago. There wasn’t ‘that moment’ where you go: “right I’m now going to start writing 700 songs. Nope. It was start-stop. ‘The dabble’, as it were… I just had feeling, had a go. Then it becomes something more – it gains it’s own momentum.

I think you get lucky early – often – when you take a leap of faith, trust and just have a go. For example, Tomorrow Today is a song that came through very early on…in fact it’s song number one in my songbooks!

As I sat in the airport with pretty much a broken heart – and the plane delayed – I could’ve got pretty worked up. Instead, I got my feelings out by writing the lyrics on the back of my plane ticket. I’m glad I did.

The result was less of a ‘broken heart’ type song and more of a ‘it can be what you want it to be – reflective’ sort of lyric.

You can read the lyrics here, on my (weekly) blog post: https://petepascoe.wordpress.com/

There are 2 versions on this episode. The original demo and a studio track.

This song appears on the album ‘Righto’ (https://petepascoe.bandcamp.com/track/tomorrow-today)

A sense of discovery and love pretty much sums up song writing. I keep my podcast episode recordings very ‘free’ – no written notes, the idea being that’ll keep me free, ‘on the breath’. As a result, the things I end up talking about are often a surprise to me.

Each song is like a ticket back to the feelings, the dreams I had at the time I wrote the song.

Towards the end of each episode, I look at the song from a songwriting point of view. So each week you’ll get to step into the shoes of a songwriter.

Back to Tomorrow Today: When I eventually arrived home, my black and white cat (see last weeks’ blog post), sat on my piano. Both seemed to be waiting for me.

I had a feeling something special was about to happen as I let my hands fall on the piano. The opening riff is what happened.

Hear this – and a very young me singing, sitting at my old piano playing this one.

Enjoy!