MAKE TIME
©1997, RS Brown and Joe Palen
===================== 2ND DRAFT (Verses, 12/16/97)...
"MAKE TIME"
(Verses, 2nd Draft & rough arrangement...
still working on the refrain)
[INTRO -- START WITH REFRAIN?]
It's three A.M., I'm wide awake
with stacks of things in queue.
Feeling that I need more time
to make some time with you.
If I could ship you overnight,
or fax me there right now.
We'd hook up in an instant,
yet we'd still both be late somehow.
I can't make time go faster
than the speed it has to flow.
I can't make time for anything.
Something's got to go.
[REFRAIN: Make time... for you, I only wanna...
Make time... with you, I only wanna...
Make time... to do, the things I wanna do.]
Suddenly reminded
that it's always now and here.
A flash of insight slams the brakes,
I find a lower gear.
For if it's always here and now
I wonder, "what's the rush?"
Take a breath. Take your time.
Get out from the crush.
[REFRAIN]
How do we keep forgetting
that there's just one place to be?
We're always here, it's always now...
We've got eternity.
[REFRAIN]
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===================== FIRST DRAFT (Verses) as e-mailed to RockS...
Date: 12/11/97, 0300
Subject: MAKE TIME (it really is 0300!)
RockS..
Let's see if we can fit this to the music we've been working on. I didn't write it with a melody in mind... hoping that one will arise when we try to fit the prose to the chords...
Amps
P.S. I only used a couple of fragments from your brain spillage... and a couple of fragments from my original brain spillage... so maybe we can work some more or your previous spillage into a refrain? Or maybe the verses I've drafted will trigger some new spillage? We'll see...
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"MAKE TIME"
(Verses, First Draft... in need of a refrain)
It's three A.M., I'm wide awake
with stacks of things in queue.
Feeling that I need more time
to do the things I do.
If I ship it overnight
or fax it there right now.
It gets there in an instant,
yet it's always late somehow.
I can't make time go faster
than the speed it has to flow.
I can't make time for anything.
Something's got to go.
...
Suddenly reminded
that it's always now and here.
A flash of insight slams the brakes,
I find a lower gear.
[SFX: Echo in the distance. The crowd begins to cheer.]
For if it's always here and now
I wonder, "what's the rush?"
Take a breath. Take my time.
Get out from the crush.
How do I keep forgetting
that there's just one place to be?
I'm always here, it's always now...
I've got eternity.
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(Joe@Work) mailto:palen@nosc.mil
(Joe@Play) http://www.users.cts.com/sd/j/joepalen
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[NOTE: On 12/7/97, I stumbled upon the following stuff in my journal, and thought I might be able to use it as
a seed for lyrics to a song that RS and I had just started working on. Then, after telling RS the basic
idea over the phone, he sent me the "BRAIN SPILL" you'll find after this journal entry.]
-------------------------------------------- BRAIN SPILL: Excerpt from JP Journal Entry (stardate April 3/4 1989)...
Now that I know it's always now...
Now what?
Now that I am here...
Now what?
If it's always now, and I'm always here...
then what's the rush?
Where am I going?
Why do I usually feel I'd rather be some other place at some other time?
I finally got to the point where I realized it's always NOW, and I thought, "Now what?".
Nothing I can say or do will erase the feeling deep in my soul that no matter why I am here,
if there even is a reason, that once I get to any destination, large or small, I will look around
and say, "now that I am here... Now what?".
Now I must go do something else.
-------------------------------------------- BRAIN SPILL: Message from RS...
From - Thu Dec 11 01:04:51 1997
Return-Path: [rsbrown@trane.nosc.mil]
Amps,
I sent this to both addresses.
Here's the spillage from last night. toss and hack to your hearts content.
hopefully it will spark what you were trying to get at.
mostly ideas.
-RockS
I'm sitting here waiting(working) my time off
trying to finish the job
how long does it take , to know it's pointless rake
when it's gone with the turn of a knob.
it's not that it matters
it's like we're always here
but you wake up each day, and look at the grey
and suspect it's another year.
I didn't see it going
I didn't feel anything at all
so who dropped that ball in the ocean
while my head was still against the wall (help - like I'm still at work at sunset)
possible refrains
you can get it inan instant
you can make your own god's speed
you can take it there , yesterday
it's delivered before you know you need.
you can fax it remote right now
you can ship it overnight
foods are cooked before their plowed (grown) (help help - brain fart)
seeds sprouted before their sewn.
you can have anyway you want it
after all isn't that your right
possible hooks:
you can't make time go faster
the time is always now
now is the time it is
it's only in your head, the things you dread
you can't make time go faster that the speed at which they go
you can't make a sapling move faster than the speed at which it grows.
make time for your dinner
take time to the store
if you waste time your a sinner
so you don't get any more