Just Keep Writing

Now, this is not an anti-Indianapolis Colts lyric. No, this is a song expressing the grief being experienced by Colts fans far and wide. I love the colts. I still wear my blue and white on game day, and still try to believe that something marvelous will come together to produce a victory. But until that happens, I will be singing the following song Them Colts ©  2011 Chelsey Sears Seems like just the other day I was watchin' the big game With blue and white painted on my face On the winning side Now it's like I'm caught in a dream A nightmare 0 in 16 Is what some are prediciting It sure is a far cry From dominating the AFC And going down in history As a championship team Like they did, not too long ago We tried our best to have faith But it's hard to watch twelve losses straight Yeah I'm fairly certain that I aint The only one who wants to know Who broke them colts Still can't believe that Peyton's out Now there are rumors flyin'...

As I was driving around today, "Let The Storm Roll By" shuffled through on my iPod, I found myself thinking about how it developed over time. Now that it's been released, I think it's okay to blog about the evolution of a song. On April 4th, I set out to write a new lyric. At the time, I was dating a musician who had talked about co-writing. He had a very modern style so I decided it was time to step it up a bit and try to get a cut. When I would go to visit him, we'd spend the night sitting by a campfire, and he would play his guitar. Then one night there was a horrible storm and we were forced inside. It was then that I started thinking about how romantic it would be if the power went out and he played guitar by candlelight. Yes, that's sappy, I know. But to this day it still sounds super romantic to me. When I sat down to write the lyric, I just thought about that scene and tried to imagine Jason Aldean singing it. The resulting lyric was called " Hi...