This isn’t ‘Tex’ Walsh, is it?
Thanks for the feedback John. I’d been messing with the melody for three weeks and I hit a 15 minute sweet spot this morning and just press record. It certainly needs more time on orchestration, timing and punctuation.
That was unreal Dom. I don’t think there are enough superlatives to describe how good that was. Wonderfully crafted song , very moving and emotional. Thanks for sharing Dom and wish you a happy 2025.
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I am very much looking forward to it!
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Wow Dom, what great lyrics. I dont mind admiting the whole thing sucked me in and left me with a lump in my throat 
. Great work.
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Dom what an exquisitely painful piece of music. The haunting quality of your vocal captures the pain and your guitar sings the uncertainly so well. I particularly like the lightness and understatement of your outro. This piece of music rests on my heart. Thankyou.
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Screw the quality of the recording, Dom 
I much prefer finding joy in dirty uncut gems than polished turds.
(You know you’ve created something special when you lure the crazy batlady out of her cave 
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On a personal level, I enjoyed this all the more as my mum is happily fading in a Dublin nursing home. It was exactly a year ago when we did a family & friends cover of a Calexico song about Alzheimer’s - The Vanishing Mind
Thanks again
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Yes, a very moving and emotional song Dom. Very well written, played and sung.
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Are you set up with an AI and DAW, Dom? If so then recording a separate guitar and vocal can be reasonably straight-forward and result in an excellent recording. Sorry if talking about things you are well familiar with. I forget who does and know what when it comes to home recording.
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I don’t know what a daw or ai is, David so I’m not sure. Up to now I always recorded on my phone. Occasionally edit in an Android app called bandlab which can handle an extra track for recording purposes, before my phone falls over in a cold sweat.
I was giving a mic for Christmas so I’ll see what I can do with that.
You can see I’m very pedantic about what people think of me and my recordings 
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Ah OK, Dom, igonore me completely and do what you always do.
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I’ll look them up. I can use all the help I can get, electronically or otherwise. Thanks David.
A beautifully sad song, Dom. It’s touching deep down inside. 
Having this long time of good bye is a familiar feeling for me as well, as my grandma had dementia, too. As mentioned by John, the line “Please forgive while I forget you” ist incredibly brilliant, is say everything about this condition.
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Such a heartfelt, emotional song, Dom. I loved this beautiful original. Well done. 
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Dom,
What Maggie @batwoman says:
“This piece of music rests on my heart.” is, if anything, an understatement… this is arguably the most heart wrenching & heartfelt piece I’ve heard here in the Community.
Recording issues aside, this was beautiful… my wife & I lost her mother to Alzheimer’s a few years back & the pain of watching & caring for this lovely, once vibrant woman fading away… incredibly sad & tragic…
my favorite line - “The lifetimes we’ve been weaving have started to unwind”, I remember thinking this at the time… like a favorite sweater that’s started unravelling…
The Long Goodbye - those words are very descriptive - ought to be whispered in the outro over & over… fading away as the song ends.
Thank you for posting this!
Tod
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Thanks a million Eddie. As ever, a work in progress
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The things that make us human and the price of having a big heart, I guess
Thank you for your beautiful comment Maggie
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Thank you Brian. I took the belated opportunity to listen to your masterpiece. Wow is all I can say. Love to you and your mother. Play on!
Thank you Gordon
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It’s a terrible cruel way to have to bow out Lisa. Thank you for your comment.
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