So In Love

So In Love

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The Story:

Eddie Valoy, a good friend of mine was letting me listen to some of his new tracks.  When I heard this track I asked Eddie what lyrics he had written for it and he said he didn't have any ideas for it yet.  So I asked if I could write something to it.  When I heard the music to this track I immediately fell in love with it and my mind was overflowing with so many images and feelings.  When I hear good music I automatically see images and scenes playing out in my head.  Whatever I see in my head determines the subject and tone of what my lyrics will be about.

This song made me see images of the Fall, Rainy nights with a chill in the air, Couples holding hands running across a busy street, The warmth/affection/love from your lover to melt the chill in the air...

I wanted to do the vocals over again on the recording but never got a chance to do it.  I was singing really flat the day it was recorded and I had other vocal arrangements that I wanted to add for a bridge and the ending, but it just never happened.  So it is What it is and you get the idea...

So In Love

(Music by Eddie Valoy
 Vocal Arrangement & Lyrics by Nadia Trammell)

The things you do for me that no one else can see
You kiss my cheek when I'm asleep
You take my hand when I am weak
The way you make me feel
I know your love is real
You make laugh when I am down
You hold me close when I'm around

Chorus:
The things I see you do
Make me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true
The way you make me feel
Keeps me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true

The things you do for me that everyone can see
You Open doors when the night is cold
You cross the street and give your arm to hold
The way you make me feel
No doubt our love is real
You touch my heart no use for hands
You make me proud you are my Man


Chorus:
The things I see you do
Make me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true
The way you make me feel
Keeps me so in love with you
And I know your heart is true

Miss Celie's Blues

Miss Celie's Blues

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The Story:

I did this song at Blues Alley for my little Sistah Brandy!!!  When we were younger she would play this song on the piano and we would act out the Color Purple scene from the movie.  Fun times...I couldn't have asked for a better sister and best friend. Wishing many years of blessings to My Sistah and her Husband to be.

Miss Celie's Blues

(Vocals by Nadia Trammell)
Sister,

you've been on my mind

Sister, we're two of a kind

So sister,

I'm keepin' my eyes on you

I betcha think
I don't know nothin'
But singin' the blues

Oh sister, have I got news for you

I´m somethin'

I hope you think (I know you think)

that you´re somethin' too




Oh, Scufflin',

I been up that lonesome road

And I seen a lot of suns goin' down

Oh, but trust me

No low life's gonna run me around                       




So let me tell you somethin' sister

Remember your name

No twister,

gonna steal your stuff away

My sister

We sho' ain't got a whole lot of time

So shake your shimmy,

Sister

Cause honey the 'shug

is feelin' fine