Too Much?

I’m try­ing to spend more of my free time cre­at­ing. As part of this effort, I am work­ing on writ­ing and record­ing one song every month. This pace gives me a lit­tle breath­ing room to bal­ance life, while still forc­ing me to sit down and con­struct a melody, write lyrics, and com­plete a record­ing every 30 or so days. I wrote about this hum­ble endeavor last month in a post titled Cre­ativ­ity in Your Life.

I am happy to report that, with a few days to spare, I have com­pleted the record­ing of a song — the first one I’ve com­pleted in a long time. It’s called “Too Much?” The song is extremely low-fi, recorded with the aid of my daughter’s karaoke machine micro­phone, garage band, and my mac­book in my base­ment hide­out. Like it or not, I promised to share. The song and the lyrics are below. Click on the link and give a lis­ten. If you like it, feel free to down­load, copy, and share.

“TOO MUCH?”

Is it too much to ask to love one another?
Is it too much to ask to swal­low our pride?
Is it too much to ask you, my sis­ters and broth­ers?
Is too much to ask you to open your minds?

Is it too much to ask that we learn how to lis­ten?
Is it too much to ask we con­sider both sides?
Is it too much to ask for kind­ness or com­pas­sion?
Is it too much to ask you to under­stand why?

Is it too much to ask, that we look past the sur­face
Is it too much to ask, that we see what’s inside
Is it too much to ask that we dig a lit­tle deeper
Is it too much to ask you to walk in the light?

Is it too lit­tle? Is it too late?
Is it our des­tiny? Is it our fate?
Isn’t there some­thing that you could do
to open your heart and break through?

With one song com­pleted, I’m now on to cre­ate some­thing new. It feels great. I hope you enjoy the song. Maybe it will inspire you to cre­ate some­thing too. It need not be per­fect — cer­tainly this song is proof of that. Real­ize, it’s not about per­fec­tion, it’s about pro­gres­sion. Cre­ate some­thing and change your­self in the process.

“Too Much” will be listed with other songs on my Music page. Feel free to lis­ten, down­load to your ipod, and share. Thanks to Artie Isaac for con­tin­u­ing to teach me the impor­tance of prac­tic­ing creativity.