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Love, Thanks and Curiosity

by wade baynham

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words and music: Wade Baynham In the great depths below where the four winds go there you are my love in quickening sand in outstretched hands there you are my love when ocean waves pound when there is no sound there you are my love in the sparkling night sky beneath (my) closed eyes there you are my love my love you are there my love, you’re ever near my love you are in me you illuminate me when i am afraid when i can be brave there you are my love when my heart can’t feel when i know what is real there you are my love my love you are there my love, you’re ever near my love you are in me you illuminate me there’s love in the morning, there’s love through the day love moves the oceans and love lights the way there’s love on the mountain top, and love on the plains love feeds the birds and love knows my name there’s love in the lightning, and love on a breeze love holds the tensions, and love brings release you tell me i’m loved and i know i can be your love moves inside me, and you become me my love you are there my love, you’re ever near my love you are in me and you illuminate me where the barren lands end where the desert light bends there you are my love when the waiting is long at the end of the song there you are my love
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words and music: U2
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words and music: 77s
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words and music: Peter Himmelman
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words and music: Gordon Lightfoot
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words and music: John Denver
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words and music: U2
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words and music: Sam Phillips, T-Bone Burnett
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music: Wade Baynham

about

"God comes to us disguised as our life." -- Paula D'Arcy

That cover photo is me around 5 years of age, and I seem to remember it being around Christmas time in 1971. Music connected with me from my earliest memories of my parents singing songs to me to help me go to bed when I was a child. We didn’t have a lot of records in our house growing up, but the ones we had gave me my frame of reference for songs and sounds, and stories. Johnny Cash, Julie Andrews, the Kingston Trio, church hymns and folk songs wove their way into my conscious and subconscious.

But it wasn’t until I was into piano lessons and learning to play guitar that I began to hear the music of singer-songwriters that spoke into my journey, and helped me feel less alone in the world. Suddenly, people were sharing their experiences via song, and for the first time I began to think, “I feel that too; and I thought I was the only one!”

This collection of songs of both original material and covers of music that influenced and shaped my experience has been a true delight to work on. The songs have moved me, inspired me and continued to reveal themselves anew to me each time I pulled them out to work on them and listen to them. I have also been feeling a sense of wonder and curiosity about life, as I’ve worked these past months. I’m learning to better understand what I’m in control of in my life, and the vast number of things that I’m not in control of. I’m learning to let go, to ‘Be,’ to watch and to be curious. These have been my practices-- really of the past several years.

My hope is for these songs to come alongside you, in some way, as you take the time to listen. And if these songs don’t move you, I hope you’ll find some songs that do. I hope you can find music or art that comes alongside you and helps you to know that you are not only not alone, but you are deeply loved, and your story is meaningful and shared by all of us in one way or another.

Love, Thanks and Curiosity to you!

credits

released December 1, 2015

Produced and Recorded by Wade Baynham at the Second Story, Durham, NC

A Warm Thank You to:

Denise Baynham-my love, patron, inspiration and companion
Robert Bailey- long-time friend, confidant and fellow-traveller
Keith Matthews- friend, guide and vulnerability coach
Dale Baker- uber-talented musical companion, longest running ‘band-mate’
Jack Hester- curator of restored amps and vintage musical gear
Morgan Fleming- conversation and musical collaboration
The songwriters- who’ve gone before me, come alongside me, given me hope, and set up their canvas to paint right in the heart of the storm.

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