Jul 29
Thursday
Concept art for July CD package

This work in progress is for a project tentatively titled July. My hope is complete and release a six song album by September. The songs will be available to listen to and download online. I also hope to prepare a DVD featuring dual audio tracks for switching between an acoustic version and a fully instrumented, 5.1 surround mix version, along with whatever audio/visual goodies I can manage to produce. Who knows, there might even be a music video Derek Olson and I having discussed making via Dirty Sprocket. But just getting the audio version done is a pretty ambitious goal for me.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy these working versions. All are in various stages of arrangement, editing and recording. No live vocals or non-virtual instruments or performances have been added yet. However, most of the virtual instrumentation heard here will remain as part of the full version.

A third and final component of the July project will be a live performance version, which, if it manifests, will be arranged substantially different.

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Words and music by Monte Amende
ALBUM: July (Working title) - 2009

VERSE I
Well, she told me that things could not stay
This way

As I waltzed off the edge of the stage I was in
And chipped off a bit of my youth

What's the use, what's the point of your plan
I demanded

She said "Look out, it's nearly September the third
And this ended back in July

She dropped hints I walked by
Now, I'm last to arrive

CHORUS
It's forever, I can't change her mind
Gone forever, I can't change her mind

VERSE II
I'm a man whose know not to let go
Yeah I know

Though she made her declaration simple and pure
I needed time to deny

Could it be I believed we're in love
I'll be damned

Six more circles through town and my best friends retort
Spat cinders that scattered the flame

Sometimes, no one's to blame
Now get use to this phrase

CHORUS
It's forever, you won't change her mind
Gone forever, you can't change her mind