Jamie Lawson: All is Beauty

While sitting on the back porch a few days ago, I was looking over old songs I had saved on Spotify. I got stuck on a song by Jamie Lawson called “All is Beauty,” and have been repeating it, obsessively, the last few days.

This is… not a song I would normally go for. It’s lovely enough, but it makes me think I’ve got a thing for a single voice with an acoustic guitar, and a basic pop progression.

Honestly, it’s the middle bit that I fell for. This part in particular:

I like these lines because they make me think of me and Liz. That third line in particular, about the mess and it being glorious… it makes me think of what we’re doing with our house, and all the ups and downs that come with a project so large in its scope.

My interest wanes in the very last verse, so I think I’m more of a fan of the first half of the song.

Were I more motivated, I’d be picking up the guitar and trying to learn the chords to this thing. Surprisingly, I was doing a good bit of driving on Thursday and had this song playing nonstop – and found myself singing along to it a lot.

And in the verse above, the word “heart” is a high F, which I was actually able to hit. It’s the highest point in the song, and after a few passes… my vocal cords loosened enough to actually make this an attainable note.

I’m more of a baritone, and my voice starts cracking around that F note. There are a lot of songs I like that are, unfortunately, un-singable due to my range.

It felt nice to sing to myself in the car, and in particular to be able to hit this higher note that came right in the middle of a specific section of the song that I liked.

I’ve got a small backlog of songs I mean to learn on the guitar. Whenever I get any free time, I feel more of an urge to code. And the idea of learning songs on the guitar feels like a kind of waste (like playing video games or watching TV).

One of these days, though. One of these days.

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