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If only one of my songs survived after I'm gone, I hope it is this one. It started out as a simple poem I wrote during math class. It was an Algebra ¾ class where I was supposed to study “Images” of objects, lines, curves, and so on. Soon after writing the lyrics, I felt a melody play in my head, and the music pretty much wrote itself within an hour. This song is not about anyone in particular, but I like the fact it says a lot without saying much. Most of the words remain in tact from the original version, but I did change a couple lines over the years. After IMAGES OF YOU, what followed was NOW WHAT CAN I DO? This was a question I posed in nearly a quarter of my songs, and it became a bit tiresome. This song deserved better than that, so I re-wrote it a few years ago. And the other change took place within the first month after I wrote it. At the last verse, IMAGES I HAD, was followed with WEREN'T SO BAD. My father said this song was too good to use a throw away line like that, so I re-wrote it to flow better. This is one of two songs I turned in for a school project. (The other one was “I'M SO LONELY” which was the first song I wrote.) I received an A+ (back when students were able to get those) and this song has remained hidden ever since. I remember the teacher picking apart the lyrics, stating how mature and perfect the lyrics are pertaining to the story, and so on. Not a bad ego boost for a 16 year old kid, but that also made it very intimidating to record this song. I did make a demo of it in a professional studio back in 1988, but I only had an hour to do it, and it just wasn't enough time to do justice to this song; so again, I shelved it, wishing to return to it when I thought I matured enough as a musician and as a person. In September, 2014, the time had come. I spent nearly 20 hours recording and engineering it myself, as well as performing all the instruments and vocals, and then finally, mixing it. The song deserved the best I could give it, so it was very personal for me in that aspect. And in many ways, this song will always be more than the sum of who I am, and it reflects my personality perfectly during times of sorrow. I was alone when I wrote it and when I recorded it. I wanted that theme to be present in the feel of the song as well. “Images” is about as honest as it gets, and I wasn't even trying to write a song at the time.
This is song #65.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

lyrics

Images I See Of You And Me,
Everything So Clear, Everything Sincere,
And I Love You.

Images Of You Without Us Two.
The Things We Had Shared, I Thought You Cared.
Still I Love You.

Oh My Love Is True.
All I Want Is You.
But Now You've Gone Away,
My Images Are Through.
(Solo)
Images I've Had Made Me So Sad.
My Images Have Died And I Cried.

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from REFLECTIONS TO IMAGES (2024 Remaster), released October 20, 2014
Wayde K. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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