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I’ve had tunnel vision lately, and at the end of the tunnel is a new song I am writing about homelessness called, “People on the Streets.” It’s inspired by my work with The Giving Spirit, an L.A. based non-profit that distributes survival kits to the homeless in Los Angeles. There is another event coming real soon on June 11-12, 2011, so I guess it is appropriate that I am inspired to work on this now.

There're people living on the streets

Since last weekend I have been recording guitars and the various other layers in Pro Tools. I’m finally at the point where I can use Pro Tools to capture most of the ideas I have, it’s a great program with a steep learning curve, in my opinion, but now that I’ve got the basics of recording and mixing down it’s all downhill from here. Now it’s just a matter of making the music. Nice.

Here are the lyrics for People on the Streets:

I had a little conversation

Thought about my situation

And the people living on the streets

Outcast and forgotten

Extreme reality

It’s not a movie, and it’s not TV

Put your fears aside

Put your judgment aside

They’re just trying to stay alive

They’re just trying to survive

Food is a basic human right

Put a shelter over everyone in sight

Put your fears aside

Put your judgment aside

They’re just trying to stay alive

They’re just trying to survive

Food is a basic human right

Put a shelter over everyone in sight

Hopefully soon I can share my song. I tried to give it a walking-down-the-street vibe with a nice rhythm section. I still have to work on the arrangement a little and I’m still trying to get a vocal take that I like so wish me luck on that, and hopefully the end result will be a nice song that honors the homeless and makes us think about the issue a little.