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[davidrfinn99165]

Nice work Daryl.... I'm hearing it with a Neil Young vibe, crossed with a Carole King title

Should be posting my version later today. I was keeping one verse open to try and work the phrase 'and winter glows' in there as a repeating Neil instrumental motif, but decided to let it rest this time.

[davidrfinn99165]

nb I lifted the title and first line from Anne Tyler's new novel ' A spool of blue thread' which was published in UK last weekend.

Thread
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Am F
/ A spool of thread runs
Am F
/from your heart to mine
Am F G
/it's still unbroken in time

we never cut it
do you still hold it?
I keep it with mine

The looks you don't see
the words you can't hear
those things we left out on the road

someone got hurt so
we don't go back there
now something's lost and something's owed

Chorus - C/G/Dm/Am etc

A faded picture
a piece of paper
a glass of burgundy wine

I hold my head up
I keep my back straight
I walk the line

verse 3

Somewhere a bell rings
somewhere a dog barks
someone is opening a door

God knows i've wondered
God knows I've waited
God knows what for....

Repeat Chorus - A faded picture etc

verse 4

A spool of thread runs
right through my life
even though none of it was planned

One day I lost it
I couldn't see it
These days it's cradled in my hand

Ending

A spool of thread runs...
A spool of thread runs...

Am///F/// Neil Young pentatonic lead licks wailing away haha....

Many thx again for the chords and melody Neil
/rgds David

[daryl]

David, I like it. There are some nice ideas in it. But I'm a little confused. In the 1st part of the 1st verse you talk about an "unbroken thread from one heart to another", then in the 2nd part of the 1st verse you say "we never cut it" but then you ask "do you still hold it?". Maybe I'm being too literal but if the thread is unbroken between two people (that is, the "thing" that binds them together) and one person no longer "holds" it, doesn't that mean that the thread IS broken?

[davidrfinn99165]

Hi daryl,...thx for the close reading ! But there's nothing 'binding' about thread.. that would be a rope you'd need to bind two people together. i think of thread as somewhat more wispy.,you'd know if someone was pulling on a rope, but......

Anyway i'm only on the early part of the anne tyler book and i read in a review that the thread doesn't come into it til past page 300., maybe i should have waited.. ... rgds, david

[michelew]

Chris, Daryl, David,

Gosh you guys are quick off the mark. I haven't listened to Neil's progression enough to get it in my head yet, or under my fingers, but each of your lyrics are interesting and mood provoking. I'm looking forward to hearing them recorded. Hint, hint.

David, I love the thread motif. Very cool and evocative.

Very nice job guys.

Michele

[thereshopeyet]

Dean Wrote:

This point is on my mind because I was looking for a couple of lessons Neil did a while ago. They were an invitation to take a suggested chord progression and see if you could come up with something original, lyrics or a picking pattern, a chord melody etc. I wanted to revisit it but didn't know where to look. By my count there are over 80 links on the main page, not including sub-menus, and I couldn't find the lessons.

Is this what you were looking for Dean, I found this tricky to find too.
How many of these were there ? Edit - I think only two. #1 and #2.

Dermot

[dtaylor]

Thanks, Dermot, yep this is the one I had messed around with.