{"id":211,"date":"2013-04-03T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincecharming.com\/awp\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2013-07-02T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:51:50","slug":"footsteps-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vincecharming.com\/awp\/footsteps-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Footsteps in the Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to a page all about “Footsteps in the Sand”<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on the arrow to activate the exfm player: \u00a0Footsteps in the Sand<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Read below for lyrics and credits<\/p>\n

The players:
\nVC: \u00a0lead \u00a0& harmony vocals, Moserite acoustic guitar, Turner\u00a0Renaissance\u00a0Guitar, Fender Precision bass, Yamaha CS1 synth (piano), drum programming; \u00a0Mike Grow: Fender lap steel guitar<\/span><\/p>\n

The Story:<\/p>\n

Another song started on my last stay in my family’s place in Malibu. I, like so many others, spent the weeks immediately after a messy breakup playing the whole relationship over and over again in my head. My trip to Malibu echoed one almost exactly a year earlier that I had spent with my ex and fairly literally chronicled in the lyrics to this song. When I began recording this in late 2010 shortly after I had completed it, \u00a0I was still in a fog. However that time did produce the lead vocal performance which so captures the \u00a0emotional tone I was trying for. Yet as I listened to it (and the lead vocals for “Gone” which I had recorded around the same time) I was\u00a0puzzled\u00a0by the strange, echo-y, distant sound they had. It wasn’t for weeks that I discovered that I had placed my vocal mike backwards in it’s clip. Aha! I redid the vocals for “Gone” but I knew I could never recapture this take…and I decided I liked the sound and then just kept it. Then the final cherry on top came when Mike added his haunting lap steel part which just put this song \u00a0into a whole new realm. I realized this sort of dreary, sad, spacey music isn’t for everyone…but if you like that sort of thing…or perhaps you’ve had a messy breakup (who hasn’t)….I really think you’ll love this song.<\/p>\n

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Footsteps in the Sand<\/strong><\/p>\n

Same flight, same time
\nSame ride, clear October night
\nSame walk down the rocky beach
\nI reach out my hand, no one\u2019s in reach
\nWalking alone, headphones on
\nHaunted by familiar songs
\nSun sets slowly over the pier
\nBut only one shadow is cast here
\nTracing your footsteps in the sand<\/p>\n

One long year stretched between
\nUnbridled joy and this sad scene
\nUp and down, a rollercoaster ride,
\nOur love washed away with the tide
\nDining alone at our old places
\nFighting to fill the empty spaces
\nFlashing back to our laughter in the pool
\nNow floating alone like some pathetic fool
\nTracing your footsteps in the sand<\/p>\n

The future\u2019s there for me to change
\nBut I keep looking back
\nAt all the coarse details of our \u201cestrange\u201d
\nAnd the union I just couldn\u2019t hack
\nIt seems your love to need and my need to love
\nCould not find a way to mesh
\nSo I walk this beach searching high above
\nFor a way to start again fresh<\/p>\n

Same flight, same time
\nSame ride home, cold October night
\nMemories of that rocky beach
\nI reach out my hand, no one\u2019s in reach\u2026
\nTracing your footsteps in the sand<\/p>\n

\u00a0VC: 10\/30 & 11\/23\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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