An Accidental Affair

This is a new song I've had done for awhile.  It contemplates how easy it would be to have missed meeting the love of your life.
 
Yea, it's a love song but as you know I can't do a straight-up love song, so I have to take it from a different angle.  These lyics concentrate on fate.
 
The background is very acoustic, but the lead is a thick blues type lead, which I think lends and interesting contrast.
 
I look forward to you comments.
 
Daryl
 
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  An Accidental Affair
 
Another Day
I might have looked the other way
Would never have 
Noticed you there.  No reason to care
No thoughts to attend
Of what might have been
 
Tempted Fate
Paid the price and I was running late
Now I realize
How easy to miss a chance such as this
The moment we met
I’ll never forget
 
Chorus:
It seems so strange
Fortunes can change
We fell into this mad affair.
   Might have
Passed out of sight                                           
Like two ships in the night, unaware.
 
How many days did I pass by you? 
So many ways to not find you.
I don't understand    why fate played a hand
Caught up with you
In this new rendezvous
 
I have to confess
That I would never have guessed
That two paths would be crossed.  
Two lives would be tossed
To fall where they may
In this game that we play
 
Chorus:
 
The stars were aligned
Somehow our lives were entwined
How could we suppose today would propose
We might be worthy of
Just falling in love
  
Chorus:
 

Hmmm.... I might have a little compression on the drums.  I can't say that I ever used gating or if I would even know how or when to use it.

Thanks.

Nice song!  Love the lyrics.  On the chorus, the backing vocals is abit too loud.  With the delay make it kind of chaotic. 

Nice tune.  I liked the intimacy of the backing vocals--they fit the mood of the song very well.

Like this, good instrumentation and I especially like the vocals and the lyrical content. I was listening on headphones too..in mono..so sounded fine. I didnt hear it until it was mentioned but there is some prominent gating on the drums that cuts in and out, maybe you were going for an effect there....

Cian

Tap - Thank you.  I try to work on all the parts.  Frank is my inspiration there as he just does everything so well, from playing to mixing and singing.  So I appreciate your comment.  I just need to retire so I can learn how to program drums.  It's not like using these loops is piece of cake either and it has inherient limitations.  Especially if you do the off-beat stuff or Latin, or 3/4, etc.

GT -Thanks.  Nice looking LP you're holding.  I had a 1952, not as nice as yours but it was a P90 tone machine.  It had that crappy trapeez bridge was the only bad part.
The lead is through my hollowbody with Classic 57s(bridge pickup) and a touch of my Xotic AC Booster and my Carr Mercury amp.  I have a couple of Xotic pedals and their new ones look even better.  Really good products. 

Vicente - Thanks.  I was pleased with the lyrics too.

Robby.  Thank you.  You help keep the vocal bar raised around here, I appreciate it.  Yea, they are loops.  I like them but of course you can only adjust them in total.  I try playing the EQ.

Greaybeard - Thanks.  For me harmonies are a challenge in that I have a very narrow range.  I had a good range once but that was 40 years ago.  Consequently my harmonies are often a little different as I have to change the lines so that I can sing them, sometimes it works to a good effect, sometimes not.  I have a vocal processor but Frank made me quit it.  Not really, but he's right, the harmonies do sound more natural.  Although at times my TC Helicon can make some really great harmonies, but not with all tunes.

Cian - Thank you.  So glad you liked the vocals.

Gary - You know I wrote this tune a couple of years ago and then it was just the acoustic guitar part.  My intention was to make it a nice melodic instrumental.  But I could never work out where the tune show go, it just never came together.  A couple of months ago, as I was trying to make it work out I just tried the thick lead sound over the acoustic and it completely changed the vibe of the tune.  I actually like the acoustic thing better, but all of sudden the tune was coming together.  So I decided it needed words, and when that came together it was a totally different thing, albeit with a conclusion.

I love Mark Knopfler but I've never studied him.  Yet I too have found that some of my phrasing is in ways like some of his stuff.  Which of course tickled the heck out of me.  But I suppose just from listening to Dire Straights I probably picked it up subconciously to some extent.  But in my early days I did spend time attempt to phrase like Jimmy Messina.  Jimmy has this great just ahead or just behind the beat thing and then resolves it so nice.  I guess it's fortunate that I enjoy melody and phrasing so much since I can't wow anybody with my blinding speed. ;)

I haven't yet found the magazines you suggested but I did buy a couple of books that have given me some new inspiration.

Yes the guitar is assembled and the first coat of stain goes on next week!  Mark Campellone has sent me, so far, 23 different pictures of the guitar in process.  I finagled some extra special wood out of him that he had been setting on for 15 years.  It's is mind boggling gorgeous.  I'm geeked to the max.  I can hardly wait.  Send me your email in a PM and I will send you some pictures.

Thanks.

A dreamy/reflective vibe on this one Daryl. Music fits the lyrics well. i also thought it was a bit different style than your 'norm' music. This was nice to hear and I'm really liking your vox!

Really nice Daryl.    Nice to hear some distortion on your guitar.  Much more soul to it.  I like the use of the diminished 7ths in there at the turn arounds.

Great song, lyrics and performances. Nice guitar tone and nice feeling in your playing. No mix crits here.

Really Nice tune Daryl. love the floaty airyness. But, then again, it wants to be floaty and airy but, I think some of the frequencies are all wrong. Especially on the the drums and the nylon guit. The drums just don't fit the tune IMO. Kind of busy. I just can't picture a drummer playing the tune so aggressively. You've got a clicky beater going on with the kik with a tone that occurs when usually hit hard. I would hear more of a muffled thumpy sound. Snare's too fat. But then again, I'm probably over-anal-yzing. (but, that's what I do). Santana might approach in the same way.
The nylon guit seems to get in the way of everything. I think because of all the high frequencies in it (too plucky). Ok, I beat you up enough:) 
I think it's a great tune, just not sleeping in the right bed.

I mostly meant the frequencies. Not necessarily the guit part. 
try this:)
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Thank you Janet.  Now if I just could develop an ear for drums! I also appreciate the comments on the guitar break.  I've never been into flashy and fast riffs, probably because I'm not very fast or flashy.  I've always liked guitar lines that are expressive and convey some emotional content. 

So you have hit on exactly what I try to convey...  I want my guitar lines to sound like it's singing, like it's trying to say something, and it may say different things to different people, but I try to make it as much like a voice as I can and I want it to convey emotion, anger, love, saddness, etc.

On the other hand, I wish I knew some fast flashy riffs. :)

Daryl

Daryl,
Some mighty fine guitar work here.   You've really got some creamy tones and expressive phrases happening.