Late December
Keith Landry
The contrast of this aging “summer boy” and his outdoors-loving daughter who is more than happy to run out into the cold.
Late December
Late December
The nights get so long
Turning embers
In the dark before dawn
Late December
For a summer boy
Feels so wrong
Can’t remember
That summer noise
Where has the time gone
In the gray light, your tired eyes
Bring the daylight to my winter skies
What you say might remind me time flies
Deeper water
Where I tend to go
Gentle daughter
Covered in snow
In the gray light, your tired eyes
Bring the daylight to my winter skies
What you say might remind me time flies
Left to my own devices
I’d get so old
You don’t think twice as
You run out into the cold
Does the great bear
In the night sky
Know to play where
You’ll be running by
In the gray light, your tired eyes
Bring the daylight to my winter skies
What you say might remind me time flies
http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae64/mtcband/Mobile%20Uploads/th_AWARD.jpg Thank you so much M.T.C. Music award committee for recognizing such a relatively simple acoustic track from such a relatively simple person... (puts hand over mic to ask presenter, "Are you sure I really won this... Did you read the wrong name?")... I'd like to thank my new laptop for not crashing during the 2011 RPM process, and not developing an editing mind of it's own as the last one had. I'd also like to thank time, seeing as how I needed so friggin' much of it to get the fingerpicked portions of this song eventually done right. A big thank you to the inspiration for the songs, my always-ready-to-go-no-matter-how-absurdly-cold-it-is daughters. And a special thank you to my beautiful (and extremely tolerant) wife Kimberly for taking these same terrific daughters off my hands during my February vacation (sorry, Florida, for the pink invasion). Where's the after party!
Congrats!!! You have just won an M.T.C Music award!!! AWARD: Best performance
Finally got this song balanced properly (after so many weeks of listening and editing, listening and editing). It somehow seems so long ago that we were all covered in snow now that winter has finally relented.
Good start to the album--slow and nice. I like the arpeggio parts and the way they melt into the nice rhythmic sounds of your chords--great introduction to the song. The timing is right-on. Again the imagery is wonderful. I could feel the late December. Good work!
Tender, as ever. Lovely stuff, Keith.
First note to last..... Killer inro to the album! The lyrics are Just Sublime! Kids Keep us young bro! Poor... But Young! :)
Lovely intro Keith and a very pretty song with emotive lyrics.