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Doug, Nick, and I got together today on a bit of a short notice. We planned it the evening before. We decided we would do some song writing. So we did.

Been a while since we had got together to write. This time we actually had some sort of method to our madness. (Suddenly I had a flashback to the old days and started singing “Can I play with Madness” by Iron Maiden. LOL man I worry me!)

 

Anyway here’s how we did the day. Nick and Doug showed up around noon and we each played some idea’s we had for songs. Then we decided we would go eat a bit, and take the notebooks just incase something came up in conversation. That was kind of a waist of time, because when we eat….thats what we do…eat! LOL

We came back and I asked if we could work on one I had started the other night. They all agreed and was ready to try it. So we started talking about things we did when we were younger and the concept of the song. Scribbling stuff down as we went along. Then we hit a bit of a block.

We then went up to the studio, jammed a little bit and then turned our focus back to the song until we had what we think is good enough for now. I say that, because we are pretty sure something will change when we go to record it for real. The recording I uploaded to this site is just a rough recording we did for memory sake.

Anyway, here is the lyrics as they stand now. To listen to it go to the music page – it will start playing.

Reckless and Young    Words & Music by: James Clark, Doug Eberman, Nick Edwards

Skipping rocks on old man Whitman’s pond

shooting turtles off a log

picking guitars and singing songs

on the tailgate of that old ford

Scared of nothing and tougher than nails

church on Sunday after a night of raising hell

a little afraid someone might tell

what we did last night

Stealing Daddy’s smokes, cruising main

picking up girls after the football game

probably get in trouble but it’s worth the pain

all for that first kiss

We were worried ’bout a million things

like football games and homecoming queens

johnny, jack and ol jim beam        

 we were kings to the girls we like

bon fires and howling at the moon

staying out late and sleepin till noon

We liked fast cars and fast girls too

Man, we were reckless and young

lookin back i can remember now

i can almost hear the sound

daddy sayin boy one day you’ll have to settle down

trust me boy you’ll see

now i Pull in from work and his mommas mad

she said “go on and tell your dad”

thinking now, those times weren’t that bad

when we were reckless and young

We were worried ’bout a silly things

like football games and homecoming queens

johnny, jack and ol jim beam        

don’t mean that much to me

cub scout fires underneath the moon

football then college it came to soon

borrowing money and sneaking booze

just being reckless and young

back then we thought we had it so bad

they say youth is wasted on the young

wounldn’t do anything different wouldn’t take it back

and now their time has come to be

reckless and young

 

Any hoo! Let me know what you think with a comment or three.

 

Thanks,