The Speed of Life

My latest effort completed.  It seems like I always have about a half dozen songs in process.  Every once in awhile I seem to get one completed and it floats to the top.
 
Mix and other comments appreciated.
 
The Speed of Life
 
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=582907&songID=10069655
 
The Speed of Life - (Words and Music D. Crowley)
 
In a One Room Shack at the Edge of Town
A Man Lives All Alone
No Wife, No Kids, No Dogs, No Cats
No One He Can Call His Own
 
He Don’t Party, He Don’t Hang Out
He Likes To Stay at Home
He’s Got No Friends to Stop or Call
He Ain’t Even Got a Telephone
 
No Romance No Rendezvous
No He Don’t Even Try
But Then Again He Don’t Have To Worry
About Having To Say Goodbye
 
Chorus:
Time Flies By at The Speed of Life
People Come and Go
Don’t Drop Your Guard - Don’t Take a Chance
Remember To Just Say No
But Late at Night When He’s All Alone
He Often Wonders Why
 
(Lead Break)
 
You Can’t Miss What You Aint Got
And He Aint Got No One
Better To Keep All To Yourself
Than Have To Trust Someone
 
An Empty Man in an Empty Room
With an Empty Glass in Hand
Tries to Forget His Empty Life
And a World He Don’t Understand
 
The Speed of Life was Far Too Fast
The Silence Now Like a Stone
Too Late at Last He’s Realized
In the End He’ll Die Alone
 
Chorus:
 
Refrain:
The Speed of Life Was Far Too Fast
It’s  Far  Too  Fast
The Speed of Life Is Far Too Fast
It’s  Far  Too  Fast
The Speed of Life Is Far Too Fast
Far Too                  Fast
 

Thanks Herb.  Evidently you are about the only one that doesn't find it too dark.

Such a sweet guitar, fun lyrics, and a very clean production. I would have like to hear a bit more emotion in the vocal. every body came together on this song, well done
 
 
Cheers, Terry is SilverBeat
 
 
 
Imagine it's the 60s
 
 
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_5952498

Daryl,

Beautiful song.  I love the whole construct.  The mood is so effective and the smokey indigo colors of guitar are outstanding.
How did you do that rhythm guitar?  Is it 2 panned evenly with an organ pad underneath?   Whatever...it's sweet stuff as usual.

Yeah, definitely a way sweet tune, Daryl.  Not too dark for me.  Sort of an bluesy feel with a touch of New Orleans in there.  I enjoyed this very much.  Excellent guitar work as always.

Well done! You always have this rolling along type of sound. And the Vox is great!

Excellent!!!!!

Bobby

Best yet. That lead guitar just sings so sweetly but with a dark power! Love the combination of instruments and the rhythm guitars and basses give real drive to the piece. The lyrics you write are always outstanding and this one is no different. Huge in message and reality. And your vocals? I hear what others say about emotion but I think you have it right. This is not a piece for sentimentality. It's about real life and you sing it as it is.

PS - My glass is half empty. Other than that, you have described me perfectly!

Best Regards
Malcolm

Really nice vocals, Daryl! Great song well played. Nice tone and mix.

Hey Daryl,

Cool song. Really great guitar licks and tone...I like the way the guitar harmonies flow in and out.

Your vocal and harmonies are right on, too and the mix is outstanding from here.

What are you using for the drums? They're swinging pretty convincingly

All in all, another winner!

Daryl

Man this is just silk!......ssooo smmmooootthhhhh...............I love the leads, the vox the harmonies the progression......

It makes me think that i am in that little tiny out of the way jazz club late late at night...........

Just outstanding>>....

Cliffordl

*** makes me think of Van Morrison........Moondance........

Song and Guitar work  + + + 1

are the drums from Band In A Box?

BIABDUDE - The drum loops are actually from one of those CD collections you get with one of the recording magazines.  I've never used these loops because they are all exactly 1 measure long, so they require a lot of work to piece together.  But they were what I needed for this song so I put in the time to put them all together in what I hoped would be a workable configuration.  There were hundreds of loops, but every one is only 1 measure long.

Mark, thank you my friend, if anyone knows about guitars - it's you!

Scotty - That's cool.  I would love to do the Untouchables TV theme.
 
Clifford - Thank you but I will vote for Moondance, a great tune

Janet - I didn't mean to provoke your thoughts, I didn't even mean it to be this dark.  I usually write my song based on a single line, in this case The Speed of Life.  This concept is what came to mind in trying to figure out what the Speed of Life would be about.   I had no plan in the beginning to tell any particular story.
 
Malcomb - Thank you fellow old dude!
 
Gary - Thanks - I'm still lost in your Island music!
 
Tap, James, Vechung - Thanks for the listen.
 
I post these tunes to get some free feedback and to test how good of job I might have done.  This may be the first song where I have not gotten much in the way of crits.   Don't get me wrong, I WANT the crits, because that's how we improve, but it is very satisfying to do something in which everyone seems comfortable.  Thank you all.

Spectacular Daryl!!

That solo put a big smile on my face! You really have a signature sound man.

I have to say that the bgv's are the best I've heard from you yet. 

Great song and the lyrics caught my ears too.

Like Mark W..I think my fav of yours as well.

I did notice the panned rhythm guitar too..nice.

I could snap my fingers to this one.

Larry

glad i caught this before it slipped into obscurity (page 2!) this could have been in some 70s detective flick soundtrack. io love the rhythm sounds, how the organ pad compliments the guitars, and of course the lead guitars are way cool. enough dynamic change to keep the interest. vocals could actually come up a tad, with them being quite low they get a little buried in that low-mid mids soup - but that is a very minor crit. the backing vox work well. 9/10 dude!

Very cool sound!!! The mix sounds great to me!! I like the guitar work especially!! Your tone is sick!!
 
What kind of hollowbody is that in the picture on soundclick?
 
Peace!!