6. Stay With You
// April 6th, 2009 // Writing On The Wall
This is an example of one of these songs that come to me while driving. I don’t know what it is about driving a car that kindles musical inspiration, but it seems to happen quite often enough for it to be more than a coincidence. What I do then is I grab my phone and start its crappy audio recording function and sing the melody into it, hoping that at a later point at least some of it will be discernible through all of the noise, distortion and general crappiness. Maybe I ought to get myself a better one-purpose field recording device and keep it in the car. It’s not safe fiddling with a mobile phone while driving. Shame on me!
The melody and chord structure of this song reminded me of my roots in the American 70′s westcoast slick music. The kind of smoothly produced jazz-pop-r&b epitomized by the likes of David Foster, Jay Graydon, Michael Omartian, Gino Vannelli etc. The arrangement of the song was naturally guided by this impression and I really enjoyed doing some multi-layered guitar parts like in the old days. Robert Wirensjö helped out with some fat Fender Rhodes and chorus-tainted piano, and Janne Hedlund did the slick drums and also helped to flesh out the background vocal parts.
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Stay With You
(Jana Persson)
Had a hell of a time
Overwhelmed by love and pleasant company
For a while just sat back and enjoyed
Just hearing people laugh and talk
Didn’t notice at first
You were looking at me across the hazy room
Mmm, you had it in for me
Oh, I was an easy catch
Now I can’t get enough of your love
I want to stay with you
Just run away with you
For every day
Every moment of my life
I want to stay with you
Just run away with you
For every day
Every moment alive
I just want to stay
I Know the feeling so well
Like a tunnel of love
That shuts out everything
You were holding my gaze
As we stood up and met
Halfway across the floor
Not a word was said
Til we finally stood in the parking lot
Mmm, you fell into my arms
Oh, my soul was singing out
Hey, I can’t get enough of your love
I want to stay with you
Just run away with you
For every day
Every moment of my life
I want to stay with you
Just run away with you
For every day
Every moment alive
I just want to stay
