The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #568: Thirteenth Hour Sequel Update 17 - Musical Interlude - Making an Ending Theme in F Part 2
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This week, I'm continuing work on the ending theme I started in episode 564 and now have some lyrics to go with some of the skeleton chords I came up with before. I have a better sense, also, what I want to song to be about - with themes touching on coming to terms with the concessions of age, understanding yourself and where you come from better, and being brave / taking chances. There is a little poem I recall from a calligraphy book I had as a kid. It remains the only poem I have ever really committed to memory, and even today, ~35 years later, I can still recite it from memory:
Believe in yourself and in your dream
Though impossible things may seem.
Some way, somehow, you'll get through
To the goal you have in view.
Mountains fall and seas divide
Before the one, who, in his stride
Take the hard road, day by day
Sweeping obstacles away.
Believe in yourself and in your plan.
Say not I can not but I can.
The prizes of life we fail to win
Because we doubt the power within.
There was not an author given, and I have not been able to find one, despite looking a number of times, but I'm sure one is out there, somewhere. That little poem got me through some tough times. So those are the sentiments I wanted this song to have.
More next week!
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-Check out the pixelart music videos that are out so far from the album:
-->Logan's Sunrise Workout: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SM1RgsLiM
-->Forward: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VgILr1TDc
-->Nightsky Stargazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S0p3jKRTBo
-->Aurora's Rainy Day Mix: https://youtu.be/zwqPmypBysk
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