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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

SOAK IT UP

SOAK IT UP
Many of the poems I write could be songs, sometimes they start out that way, because I find it easier to remember things if they have a tune. And all my poems do, each and every one of them has an internal tune that I can remember it by. I can go back to my old poems and sing each one, straight off the page. Why am I telling you all this nonsense? I really don't know, apart from by way of introduction to the following song. Song? why is it a song? Well it's a song because I wrote it for Cliff Richard, only joking, but I did write a song for Cliff once, honestly. Of course he didn't use it, why would he? Anyway, the real reason that this piece is a song is because it sings itself to me, as opposed to me singing the line to myself. It's something to do with the repetition of the catchy bit, the thing that real songwriters call the hook.

SOAK IT UP
This could be our last
chance to get it on
we're getting out of
here before too long

So soak it up go soak it up
it won't be long you heard it here
so soak it up go soak it up

'cos very soon we'll
all be going up
into the atmosphere
to soak it up

So soak it up go soak it up
it won't be long you heard it here
so soak it up go soak it up

Such a beautiful day
so let's go fly
up above the clouds
and the clear blue sky

So soak it up go soak it up
it won't be long you heard it here
so soak it up go soak it up
18012+10/1

8 comments:

  1. Andy, I like that you write poems like a song. Thanks for telling me but it sure aint nonsense.
    Wish I could hear the melody when you sing.
    - Irene

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  2. Hi Irene, thanks for commenting on this, I was just about to add some more to the post, when the computer went funny. Anyway, the thing about having a tune for every poem is that it's easy to store them in my mind and to recall them, I think lots of performers must do this.

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  3. I know what you mean--I've always heard the music in your poems--they seem like song lyrics to me for sure.

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  4. soak it up - I like it, it's catchy and it really sounds like a song

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  5. I wrote a song for Cliff while I was in England.Unfortunately no one told him I was visiting... You missed out there cliff mate.

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  6. Well, there's a night at the pub!

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  7. Thanks Richard, I'll drink to that!

    I still can't make your comment thingy work.

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  8. Hey Stan, you can't say that we didn't try to help Sir Cliff can you?

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