Story Behind The Song
Not sure. My friend just gave me the poem and I liked it immediately, but heard it as a song, so I wrote music for it. Turns out my friend went on to work for ARISTA records and then Disney.
Song Description
A friend of mine wrote the lyrics as a poem first. I then dropped some of the lines to make if flow better as a song and wrote a melody and chorus. It is a strange song about unrequited love, but the object of his love is his best friend or mentor's daughter and he seems to be writing it to his friend (father of the daughter) almost like a confessional. I personally love the melody and chorus, but the lyrics we so mysterious that I had to write music for it.
| Song Length |
5:17 |
Genre |
Rock - Progressive Rock, Rock - General |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled |
Subject |
Daughter, Relationship |
| Similar Artists |
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Fleetwood Mac |
Language |
English |
Lyrics
YOUR DAUGHTER Words by Cameron Randle,
Music by Scott Aycock
Copyright 2000
I saw you daughter
Walking in the cold Missouri rain.
I wonder has she left us
For the quiet of her pain.
Is she gone to hide her sorrow?
From a vengeful lover's wrath?
Does she hum a twisted lullaby?
In the hazy aftermath?
CHORUS
She is given to the evening
Like a shadow on the run
She is prone to disappearance
When she's left your life undone.
I saw your daughter,
Dancing in the dark Missouri night.
Where she lingers with her lover
'till the meadows morning light.
Did she concede to pure emotion?
Did she finally let him in?
Can she keep a shattered secret
From slipping out again?
CHORUS
I heard your daughter
Laughing in the soft Missouri dawn.
And I miss the subtle magic
Of the way she led me on.
Has she sold her soul for silence?
Is there nothing left to sing?
Can she leave me holding heartache?
Like a solemn sacred thing?
CHORUS
Repeat last line of chorus 3x's
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