Waltz for the Lost
By hent03 on July 20, 2022 1:00 pm
Early upload because I'm in Hokkaido for a few days. I picked up my guitar on Tuesday at lunch and this tune just happened. It came together so quickly I'm almost certain I plagiarized it, though I remain hopeful I did not.
For whatever reason, when I started looking for a tune to hum, I thought of those times in childhood when you still don't understand the world, and you're trying to figure out how it works beyond what exists in front of your eyes. I thought of a young boy who sometimes talks to the man who lives next door. Maybe they connected over a certain type of music or a sport - nothing particularly deep, but enough to form a bond of sorts. A vague feeling of camaraderie. I thought of that boy watching one day as the man's wife and two sons put suitcases in a car and drive away, leaving the man by himself. The boy thinks of the alcohol he sometimes caught wafting on the man's breath, and the way the man's wife sometimes looked at his own father, but he doesn't have enough of an understanding to put any of it together. He just knows that something sad has happened, and something has ended, and that the man next door will never be the same again.
So yes. Make of that what you will, I guess.
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