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Topic: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

Now, She Sleeps Alone  by  Jim Kenyon


At first I  couldn’t think of any musical way to change


the chords for the chorus.




So I just played the same sequence all the way through.


after waking up this morning - I changed it a bit so it has a chorus now with the chord sequence just a bit different.


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I wrote it about a special circumstance, but I think it could fit a lot of stories




also - I changed the title  smile




Verse 1




[Am]There’s things that happen [Dm] in this life


which [Am] bring sorrow to your [E]soul


[Am]Things you’ll never [Dm]understand


And [E] things you can’t con[Am]trol




Chorus


[Dm] I know a girl as cold as ice


She [Am]has a heart of stone


She [E]never cries, she never smiles


and [Dm]now she [E]sleeps a[Am]lone




Verse 2


[Am]She once was my [Dm]own true love


and[Am] then she slipped [E]away


Oh [Am]such a caring [Dm]heart she had


I still [E]love her to this [Am]day




[Dm] [Am] [ E ] [Am]



[Dm] [Am] [ E ] [Am]




Verse 3


[Am]Her smile lit up [Dm]every room


But [Am]now that light is [E]gone


With[Am] hair so soft and [Dm]voice so sweet


lost [E] ‘tween darkness and the[Am] dawn




Chorus


[Dm] I know a girl as cold as ice


She [Am]has a heart of stone


She [E]never cries, she never smiles


and [Dm]now she [E]sleeps a[Am]lone




Verse 4


[Am]It seems as though the [Dm]sun should shine


and [Am]take away the [E] pain


My [Am]life, it seems so[Dm] empty now


and all I[E] feel is bitter [Am] rain






Chorus


[Dm] I know a girl as cold as ice


She [Am]has a heart of stone


She [E]never cries, she never smiles


and [Dm]now she [E]sleeps a[Am]lone




She [E]never cries, she never smiles


and [Dm]now she [E]sleeps a[Am]lone



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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

Hi Jim ive writen a few with a repeating chord structure as long as the melody changes for the chorus or the arrangment in this songs case being all verses its ok. Good song. ive known a few women with a heart of stone.     

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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

Another fine song, TIG ... a cold heart is a symptom of deeper troubles ... you've got it all in this one.     

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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

TF 
Thanks for the kind words of support.

CTECH -as you can now see I just had to go back and put chorus differently - it was just bothering me. I'm not sure it made it better - but just sits better with me.

I appreciate both comments a lot.  Have a safe and Happy New Year.
Jim

P.S.  sorry it's such a "downer" of a song to end 2018 !  May better and wondererous  things to come  in 2019 !!!     

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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

Jim that song reminds of a Lady I know well been married three times and now lives on her own. I love the way you write songs. Once again you have written a top song.
A safe and happy New year to you and your family.
Cheers
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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

I must not have noticed this earlier.

Jim, your right up my ally with this  one.  not only do I visualize a cold bitter woman, I can visualize the death of ones true love in a coffin.
That chorus is a very good hook and im going to hit this one with a my metalizing treatment and post it.  minor chords and distortion are nice.  Well this will be overdriven not full on Dist. big_smile     

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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

Beamer - can't wait til you do it - I actually think it is a good song lyric for your style.

Thanks

JIm     

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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

Hi Jim. I don't know how I missed this back in December, so thanks for re-submitting it. Minor chords do tend to give a song a melancholy feel so that's the way I played it. But it lacked something...which is why I changed the Am on the second line of the verses to G7, I think it adds a little something, it's up to you if you keep it or not. In the chorus the last line; "and now she sleeps alone" might make a little more sense as; "and SO she sleeps alone" What do you think. Only suggestions.

[Am] There’s things that happen [Dm] in this life
which [G7] bring sorrow to your [E] soul
[Am] Things you’ll never [Dm] understand
And [E] things you can’t con [Am] trol     

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Re: Song: Now She Sleeps alone

Yes Phill

I like both suggestions !

Jim     

The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
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Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
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