{"id":6503,"date":"2025-05-20T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2025-05-20T00:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:26:40","slug":"new-lyric-sandcastle-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/20\/new-lyric-sandcastle-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lyric – Sandcastle Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s the lyric for the next song on the forthcoming record Spellbound.  This is another one of “my” songs, with the lyric and arrangement mainly by me, as well as the singing on the original track.  This one is basically a power ballad, which is a style I don’t really write in anymore.  I don’t remember much about writing it, other than not being totally satisfied with either the lyric or the chord progression at the time.  Listening back now, I think both hold up quite well.  Thematically, it’s about longing and yearning for the future, like alot of the songs on the record.  Musically I seem to recall trying to work in some jazz chords but never really finding a place for them. There’s a pretty cool lift from G major to E7 in the middle that made the final cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\nSandcastle Kingdom<\/b>\n\nPassing time\nBut somehow I don’t seem to mind\nAs if I had some time to spare\nNever a day left to share\nWith you but why then don’t I care I’m getting left behind?\n\nOnce long ago\nAlthough now you’d never know\nI held the flame that burned so bright\nIt lit the sky up in the night\nBut then somehow I lost the light I wonder where’d it go?\n\n[guitar solo]\n\nLoose your dreams\nIt’s not as painful as it seems\nImagination all dried up\nFought the fight and gave it up\nWaiting for a change of luck to open some new streams\n\nWell they might have been castles I built inside my head\nSeemed real enough when I lay dreaming in their bed\nBut as a change of the tide will wash old sands away\nThe time to build new ones comes with a new day\n\nGone a year\nBut now I feel the time is here\nDon’t wanna put my faith in fate\nYou know there’s not much more I’ll wait\nBecause tonight is growing late tomorrow’s drawing near\n\n— John Szinger 1990\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the lyric for the next song on the forthcoming record Spellbound.  This is another one of “my” songs, with the lyric and arrangement mainly by me, as well as the singing on the original track.  This one is basically a power ballad, which is a style I don’t really write in anymore.  I don’t … Continue reading “New Lyric – Sandcastle Kingdom”<\/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":[51],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-spellbound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503","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=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}