http://colleengrace.com/blog.cfm Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:08:57 GMT http://bandzoogle.com http://colleengrace.com/blog.cfm?feature=2863027&postid=1909467  Matt and I have faithfully been working on three songs, Not Supposed to Be (see previous entry), Believe and Cherub (working title). This style is quite a departure from my previous singer/songwriter material and even treds on the dance seen with my recent influences of Swedish House Mafia and Ellie Goulding. It's fun and uplifting, despite the dark topics of two of these tracks. Believe is more about having faith in something to make it happen (um, like these songs ever getting finished!) and Cherub is simply lyrically seductive. Here's some lyrics from these two tracks.... Believe There's a storm waiting outside/there's a cloud waiting behind those eyes/all this time I give in to this place of hope: to create us you have to believe Cherub I close my eyes and feel you there/sychronizing flesh as the world disappears/you're my sweet mercury pouring sweet energy/come rise in me Until the next time...much thanks Not Supposed to Be (see previous entry), Believe and Cherub (working title). This style is quite a departure from my previous singer/songwriter material and even treds on the dance seen with my recent influences of Swedish House Mafia and Ellie Goulding. It's fun and uplifting, despite the dark topics of two of these tracks. Believe is more about having faith in something to make it happen (um, like these songs ever getting finished!) and Cherub is simply lyrically seductive. Here's some lyrics from these two tracks....

Believe
There's a storm waiting outside/there's a cloud waiting behind those eyes/all this time I give in to this place of hope: to create us you have to believe

Cherub
I close my eyes and feel you there/sychronizing flesh as the world disappears/you're my sweet mercury pouring sweet energy/come rise in me

Until the next time...much thanks
]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:08:57 GMT 5F92BAB0A0A10B3CDE80F39707E0D91F http://colleengrace.com/blog.cfm?feature=2863027&postid=1680075 January 3, 2012 Happy New Year to everyone. After an all too quick vacation, life is resuming and back to the writing and practicing and working out and day-to-day fun stuff and not-so-fun stuff. I am exicted that The Art of Getting By is now OnDemand. It's always surreal to hear something I wrote and sung on television and even more surreal it being in a movie. I am ever so grateful though.  With many warm wishes and wonderful things to you all. Have a wonderful new year. Happy New Year to everyone. After an all too quick vacation, life is resuming and back to the writing and practicing and working out and day-to-day fun stuff and not-so-fun stuff. I am exicted that The Art of Getting By is now OnDemand. It's always surreal to hear something I wrote and sung on television and even more surreal it being in a movie. I am ever so grateful though. 
With many warm wishes and wonderful things to you all. Have a wonderful new year.
]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:28:48 GMT 9F68863CD4270A2D5ACF2DC04DF0AAD0 http://colleengrace.com/blog.cfm?feature=2863027&postid=1441457  It's appeared to me I've focused primarily on being a composer rather than a singer/songerwriter/performer. Perhaps it's a temporary break, a three year long one. I do have many songs in various stages and perhaps I'll eventually give up the ghost on them and get them out to you or family or friends. In the meantime, they sit on my hard drives longing to be finished, hence the three years in the making.   In the world of geekdome, I've become happilly immersed in the various ProTools plug-ins and all the amazing weird effects and sounds our (Matt's and my) library has. It's allowed me to be super creative for the shows I've been blessed enough to write music on.  As for my songs, I just finished the construction of one I wrote last weekend called, "Not Supposed to Be." A strange lyrical content about feeling elation in a circumstance where one would or should feel either terror or sadness. Perhaps it's called shock. "I was strangely calm, numbers in my head. I'm not supposed to be this light, not supposed to feel this, right?" It was one of those little blessings that nearly writes itself and reminds us creative people there is something beyond our power and we are merely conductors of otherwordly energy. Perhaps that's just my feeling on it. It would be a shame if my songs lived only on my hard drive so here's to the will power and drive to keep working through the production of the songs. 
In the world of geekdome, I've become happilly immersed in the various ProTools plug-ins and all the amazing weird effects and sounds our (Matt's and my) library has. It's allowed me to be super creative for the shows I've been blessed enough to write music on. 

As for my songs, I just finished the construction of one I wrote last weekend called, "Not Supposed to Be." A strange lyrical content about feeling elation in a circumstance where one would or should feel either terror or sadness. Perhaps it's called shock. "I was strangely calm, numbers in my head. I'm not supposed to be this light, not supposed to feel this, right?" It was one of those little blessings that nearly writes itself and reminds us creative people there is something beyond our power and we are merely conductors of otherwordly energy. Perhaps that's just my feeling on it. It would be a shame if my songs lived only on my hard drive so here's to the will power and drive to keep working through the production of the songs. 
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