This is my unofficial entry to Steemit Open Mic Week 89. 

Just wrote a freshly-squeezed song and recorded it as raw as possible in one take on my cell so I don't forget it. Didn't try to polish it at all because I thought I would continue to work on it over time and perhaps record it once its finished this way I can make a post later that would show the process of creating, honing, and producing a song. Please forgive the mistakes and thanks for listening.

Songs are like children. They start out as babies and grow over time. Unless you're a songwriter it's hard to understand that. Most people hear a song once it's completely finished and never hear it in its infancy.

I have a friend who wrote and produced a song performed by Sheryl Crow called *Leaving Las Vegas*. You may have heard it as it was a big hit. But if you heard what it sounded like when he wrote it you would have never known it could be such a popular song. It sounded like a redneck Bob Dylan sang it with a pinch of tobacco in his mouth. About as shit-kicking, hillbilly as you could get.

That song sat on a shelf until he pulled it out while producing her first album, *Tuesday Night Music Club* and the rest is history. There were quite a few songs on that album with interesting backstories that perhaps I'll share with you one day. 

Anyway, I thought I would make this crude first draft and continue to work and polish the song. I think it will make a good post for musicians to see the process from start to finish. It really is an art.

Hope you enjoy this version for what it is, raw.





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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1oKh3sUHw</center>

Verse: Dm / B7 flat / Dm / B7 flat / G7 / B7 flat / F / C / G / B flat

Chorus: F/ C / G / B flat/ C/ F/ C / G / Gm / B flat/ C

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*Eagle soaring in the sky 
how'd you learn to fly like that?
Did it come naturally? 
Do you think that you could teach me?*
 
*Where'd you get the nerve to jump
or did somebody push you?
Maybe just a little shove is 
all I need to get me going*.

*Little ant with giant hopes
never doubted for a day
you could move the rubber tree
ten times more than you weigh.*

*Always looking down on you.
Lessons you could teach me.
Could I borrow half your faith?
It's all I need to know I can.*

*Jump into the arms of the universe.
Hope it's going to catch me.
If I fall and hit the dirt
how bad you think it's going to hurt?
Pick me up and dust me off,
get back up and try again.*

*Spider spinning out a web
praying on another meal.
Wind come blow it all away
I know just how you feel*.

*Test your virtuosity.
Talk about tenacity.
Build yourself another one
better than before
and if the wind should come again
you can always take up flying.* 

*Jump into the arms of the universe.
Hope it's going to catch me.
If I fall and hit the dirt
how bad you think it's going to hurt?
Pick me up and dust me off,
get back up and try again.*

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