"Tail Lights & License Plates" a Hook original

[Hook]

Been playing around with this progression and lyrics for a week or so, getting comfortable with it. Recorded this today. all percussion done with my Roland Handsonic 10, flute is my EWI5000
1 baritone uke/vocal (stereo)
1 A/E bass
3 percussion (1 mono-2 stereo)
1 Flute

Tail Lights & License Plates

written & performed by Hook

It's a feeling of long ago
usually feels pretty good
kinda feels like home
Christmas 3 or 4 years ago
was the last time I remember
feeling whole

Now I hide in the shadows
follow from a distance behind
I found my place
tail lights and license plates

That winter of the feminist
That was the you
That liked me the best
Now I just have memories
Such fragile little things

I remember how it just seemed to come
so easy to you
A passion burning bright
A dream that you could see

Family binds & social ties
Knots so tight they can't untie
So you just cut the mess away
& thread another lace

[thetworegs]

The uke sounds great and the flute makes it for me  a beautiful tune ....Flute on !

[StephenM]

Like the flute alot.... like the lyrics and singing

[bruno]

Those are some great and moving lyrics brother.
Here's to better times.
Rock on.
B

[kenny mac]

The lyrics are dark but the tune is light.
They almost fight one another for superiority.
The instrumentation is inspiring and the lyrics paint
a picture to me of stuck in traffic at night with the writer
mullin over memories and story's of his life.
A very elvis Costello vibe from the vocal.
Nice one.

[AndyR]

Woo! This is a bit good...

A powerful powerful song.

Love it.

[WarpCanada]

I like the emotional lyrical topic.  I like the flute part.  I'm not sure the various percussion sounds work here.    I'm wishing the bass line was mixed a bit louder, and less varied percussion, maybe a very tiny amount of brushed drums. 

If you like Tom Waits as much as me, then you'll know I like it when I say it has a Tom Waits aspect to it, which is I think what I like best. There's something sad, and something like an overheard melody from a radio playing at the neighbor's house next door to it.  The flute is great.

[Kenny B]

Nice one Hook ... I dig this.

[Redler]

Nice one! The flute is icing on  the cake!

[chapperz66]

Beautiful and moving lyrics.

Paul