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Well, friends, this is the last tune for my part in phase 2 of the Positive Song Project. Used a field recording of crickets for the ‘Music for Airports’ badge.

Very happy to have participated and heard so many great positive tunes! All the thanks to Lobelia and Richard for putting this project together and launching phase 2!

When I jumped on nine weeks ago, I wasn’t sure that I could write a positive song. But this very cool project reminded me of when I was a kid. I just wrote songs because it was fun. The names of my bands were 2000 Flushes, Fingertoes, and Stereotypical Jesus and the Superintelligent Shades of Blue. We were a bunch of goofballs and it was glorious. But even back then, my own lyrics were pretty melancholy.

Before this project, I hadn’t finished a tune with lyrics in 13 years. Happy to say that’s not the case anymore. Thanks again to Lo and Richard.

The love in this last song is a little bit about various specific people who probably don't know who they are. It’s also about the gigantic collective flowing universal love my acid-dropping parents told me of many times. It’s also also about this tough time we’re all having these days as we learn (or not) how to adapt to this new world.

And it’s for music and musicians, from those of us facing major identity crises to those of us who simply want to organise frequencies on the fly with other humans again. The love we have for music won't leave. We simply cannot allow it to leave.

This song makes me cry. It made my husband cry. It might make you cry. BUT ultimately I stand by this last tune as being a positive song.

lyrics

Love Won’t Leave

No more
Big Plans
Just have to adapt
To the flow of the time on my hands

And this love won’t leave my heart

Feel safe
Unafraid
Not saying goodbye
But mice and men have had their day

And this love won’t leave my heart

Maybe… it’s some kind of protection
A heart wide open, my pride forgotten
Knowing the only way out is in

Let go
Open eyes
There’s so much more to know
Than I can ever realize

And this love won’t leave my heart

Maybe… it’s some kind of protection
A heart wide open, my pride forgotten
Knowing the only way out is in

No more
Big Plans
Just have to adapt
To the flow of the time on my hands

And this love won’t leave my heart

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from Turn: A Positive Songs Project Joint, released July 7, 2020
Keys/vox: Rachel Rhodes
Crickets: Someone with a really fancy microphone

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