So I have a beautiful friend who lives on Koh phayam called Natalie , and I said i’d Love to do a song with her for FAWM as we sing together a lot on the island 🌴.
Anyway tie went by and the 28th rolled around , I spent the day on a boat 🚤 then came back and had dinner with some friends .
Natalie contacted me to say she had a song so I could go around to hers after dinner .
(Best in mind she doesn’t live near me but does live where I was out for dinner ).
So we finished dinner 9.30pm and me with no WiFi , wandered into her bungalow place ( she rents bungalows) and she was in !!
Natalie’s first question
“Have you brought your guitar ?”
Me
“Er.......... whoops 😬”
So we sat down at the front of her bungalows next to the road with me now playing my phone guitar . Once she told me the structure we ran through it and I recorded her in virtually one take ( you may ear the odd scooter )
So with them at in the bag I messaged @shortdan to find out when fawm finished .
(Although we had kind of worked out it wasn’t Thai midnight )
Just in case, this morning I woke at stupid o clock to head down the beach to the mangroves to whack on some harmonies and instrumentation , which is so rough but hey , once again it’s fawm .
So ladies and gentlemen I am so happy to finally definitely finish with this song .
Her words are from the point of view of a permanent resident on the island and are really quite brilliant .
So finally thank you to the island , to Thailand , to the beautiful soul that is Natalie and to all you wonderful musicians out there
lyrics
It was love at first sight
I’d never seen anything like
Your jungle roads and twisting trees
The smell of cashews strong and sweet
The open hearts, the open doors
The open sky and sea
The coconuts, the rubber trees
Those spirals in the sand
Your moonlight shinin’ mystery
Your music in my head
And all these things, they made me say
“I’m stayin’ one more day”
‘Cause you taught me how to love
Like the open sky above
And you taught me how to be
You little island in the sea
And you showed me who I am
Oh-oh-oh, Phayam, Phayam
I came back first of August
The middle of the rainy days
With dreams of simple living,
The perfect love, and easy ways
But you had other plans for me
As I was soon to see
Spiders big as pancakes
And roaches that can fly
Washin’ all my clothes by hand
Three days for them to dry
And there’s mold in my pillow
It’s chokin’ me at night
It’s shower time, the water stops
There’s shampoo in my hair
A wasp has built a nest of mud
In my underwear
My nail bed is infected
But do you even care?
Well, I didn’t have a clue
What you were about to do
You shook me up and took me down
To the place where truth is found
I tried to take things day by day
Learnin’ all new tasks
‘Til that no-name dog that had three names
Whose face was like a mask
Stole our dinner, broke our plates
And I broke down at last
And then there were the nights
When the storms came rushin’ in
When we had our first fight
I felt the world was cavin’ in
So sure I was right, but did I
Lose or did I win?
Well, you taught me to let go
Of the things I can’t control
And you taught me what was right
How to stand without a fight
And you showed me who I am
Oh-oh-oh, Phayam, Phayam
Oh-oh-oh, Phayam, Phayam
‘Cause, you taught me how to love
Like the open sky above
And you taught me how to be
You little island in the sea
And you showed me who I am
Oh-oh-oh, Phayam, Phayam..
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