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The pieces of my life seemed to all fall into place I was only half alive, Now there’s no lonliness inside ‘Cause finally my life’s become complete Now here we stand together, better times I can’t recall I was only passing time until you came into my life And finally my life’s become complete |
CREDITS: Music and Lyrics by Lead and HarmonyVocals, Piano, Keyboards, Bass, Flute, Drum Sequencing - Mark Greenawalt
BEHIND THE MUSIC: The lyrics for 'Finally' were written as a wedding song for my brother Curt and his wife Jean in 1997. The theme of the wedding was baseball and instead of tuxedos, he wore an Atlanta Braves univorm while I wore and Arizona Diamondbacks jersey. I was living in Nashville at the time and the demo that I recorded at the time only included piano (actually a Korg M1 synth), guitar, and vocals. The guitar parts and the female harmony vocals were by my friend Amy Hailstone who did a fantastic job. Fast forward over 20 years and I have unarchived the original tracks from a DAT tape. I decided to lay down a live piano track to replace the original keyboards, but I kept all of the original vocals and guitar from '97. I added the sequenced drum tracks, played the bass line, and for the first time, I played flute on one of my original songs. I recorded and mixed everything in Logic X. The song is now available online at several streaming sites including Amazon, Google Play, Spotify, and of course Youtube. Maybe I should have reached out for help on the video, but I did everything on it. The motion shots were captured on a Canon 5D Mark iii using a motion dolly. I even put the puzzle together all by myself. The rainbow just happened to occur the day I was doing the video shoot so I included it and incorporated it into the theme when the black & white scenes transition to full color. I did all of the editing on Premiere and then published this on 9/11/19 (a palindrome) at 9:11pm. One last tidbit: The original lyrics to the initial draft of this song were written on an airplane ride from Nashville to Iowa for a work trip. Those lyrics were about a little girl waiting at the airport for her daddy to return from a overseas mission in Desert Storm. I had completely forgotten about this until I found a rough demo of my co-writer Chris St.Croix singing this version on the DAT tape archive. TECHNICAL: UPC - 767501316343 Original tracks recorded on Digidesign Session 8 software in Nashville using Korg M1 keyboards. PLACEMENTS: Official Music Video - Produced, directed, filmed, and edited by Mark Greenawalt using a Canon 5Dmiii and Premier. |
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