{"id":6487,"date":"2025-05-13T03:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2025-05-13T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:00:31","slug":"new-lyric-strange-to-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/13\/new-lyric-strange-to-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lyric – Strange to My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on the recording and instrumentation when the rough mix is ready. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strange to My Mind<\/b>\n\nI can feel a change and it’s strange to my mind\nAnd I feel it grow and I know we will find\nThat you and I will see what will be in our time\n\nDoes anybody feel like I do?\nDoes anybody know what to do?\nDoes anybody feel like I feel like I feel, oh yeah\nMaybe it’s true\n\nI can see a way, a new day to begin\nKnowing that our love is not above but within, oh yeah\nNow’s the time to start in your heart let it in\n\nDoes anybody feel like I do?\nDoes anybody know what to do?\nDoes anybody feel like I feel like I feel, oh yeah\n\nMaybe it’s true, she-dooby do\nMaybe it’s true for me and you, oh yeah\n\n[sax solo]\n\nI can see a change and it’s strange to my mind\nAnd I feel it grow and I know we will find\nThat you and I will see what will be in our time\n\nDoes anybody feel like I do?\nDoes anybody know what to do?\nDoes anybody feel like I feel like I feel oh yeah\n\nYou know it’s true, she-dooby do\nYou know it’s so true baby, oh yeah\nTalkin’ talkin’ ’bout, talkin’ ’bout me and you\n\n— John Szinger, 1990\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “New Lyric – Strange to My Mind”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}