Here’s the lyric for a new song for the upcoming record Spellbound. As previously mentioned, the original Spellbound E.P. was a concept album Martin and I made one winter break way back when we were in college. Now I’m making a legit album out of those songs, based on our demos from long ago.
Strange to My Mind is one of the songs I’ve been working on in the first batch. It has a bit of a different feel than the other songs on the record, more jazzy and groovin’, say like Supertramp rather than Yes or Pink Floyd. Martin said he always liked this song because it was the beginning of me finding my voice as a songwriter, and it launched a whole style of songs that flowed from the stream this one opened up.
Indeed, this was the first real rock song with lyrics that I wrote and brought to completion to record or perform. Looking back now, the lyrics are not really that substantial, just some vague hippy sounding fluff. But it’s enough to make a tune, and getting from nothing at all to something was a big deal at the time. I remember really struggling over that third verse! And I must say, having recently learned to play it again, that chords and general feel hold up nicely.
More on the recording and instrumentation when the rough mix is ready.
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Strange to My Mind
I can feel a change and it’s strange to my mind
And I feel it grow and I know we will find
That you and I will see what will be in our time
Does anybody feel like I do?
Does anybody know what to do?
Does anybody feel like I feel like I feel, oh yeah
Maybe it’s true
I can see a way, a new day to begin
Knowing that our love is not above but within, oh yeah
Now’s the time to start in your heart let it in
Does anybody feel like I do?
Does anybody know what to do?
Does anybody feel like I feel like I feel, oh yeah
Maybe it’s true, she-dooby do
Maybe it’s true for me and you, oh yeah
[sax solo]
I can see a change and it’s strange to my mind
And I feel it grow and I know we will find
That you and I will see what will be in our time
Does anybody feel like I do?
Does anybody know what to do?
Does anybody feel like I feel like I feel oh yeah
You know it’s true, she-dooby do
You know it’s so true baby, oh yeah
Talkin’ talkin’ bout, talkin’ ’bout me and you
— John Szinger, 1990
