Work in Progress: Halloween Ventriloquist Mummy Costume

Video: I Think of You

This is a song I wrote in 2000 and perform frequently. This is how I did it recently on a live studio appearance at KXJZ in Sacramento, cheesy keyboard and all. On the show, I explained that this provides some insight into how a songwriter composes at home with simple tools, and that someday when I have the song arranged and recorded the evolution from demo to finished product will be obvious.

Video: Let's Not Ruin This Affair

Here it is, the song I wrote today! Well, I started it yesterday, slept on it and revised a bit and then to my amazement the chords came pretty easily. I started writing the bridge between the last two verses but kept messing it up on the video so I left it out.

Here are the lyrics:

Let’s Not Ruin This Affair
By Alexandra L. Weber Morales © 2007

Let’s not ruin this affair
Charged with unlimited potential
Can’t you see the mystery is essential?
Screw domestic devastation
Show me eccentric motivation

Please don’t say how great we’d be
Let’s rewind to our pleasant repartee
If you want me in your arms take me dancing, you fool!
Let’s make music together
No morning guilt as a tether

Let’s not ruin this affair
Go ahead and shop for another bed
Don’t hold my hand, I’m not hoping to be led
I’m a woman in her prime
Play my piano, it’s divine

Let’s not ruin this affair
Sublimation suits you so well
Give me your best shot, your truest laugh
Give me your finest thought, your choicest word
When all your flings have piled up in the past
When you see how far I’ve come undeterred
You’ll remember me
You’ll remember me
…and how I made us last