Inner Voices and Characters

I don’t really mean to do this but it just happens.

I am practicing a song called “Ponies” written by Jeffery Bullock. The first time I heard the song John Denver was singing it. The most famous version of the song (as I found out years later) was done by Michael Martin Murphy.

There is a line in the song that goes:

“And he says, ‘Ponies…now ponies don’t you worry. I have not come to steal your fire away. I want to fly with you across the sunrise. Discover what begin each shining day.”

Pretty words. Except that when I have recorded myself singing this in the past, I didn’t like what I heard. I am much better at hitting the notes but the feeling is not there.

So, as I was listening to a play-back of me singing this song, this is what happened in my head:


“It’s a song called Ponies. It’s pretty much the best song ever written about the greatest animal ever. Ya wanna hear it?”





“Sure. Sing it for me.”







“O.K….(singing) .....'I want to fly with you across the sunrise…..Discover what begins each shining day.”.




Silence.


“Did you like it?”






“You don’t sound like you want to fly.”








Silence


“Damnit!”






So, I am working on it and it is getting much better.

More and more I get this guy in my head instead:








Once again...Roy Rogers to the rescue.