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Topic: Lost Lover's Lullaby

Got talking with Brian (easybeat) about songwriting..... got me thinking about older songs I had written but never followed through with

  Song I dragged this out of the closet and reworked it -  kinda sad.

https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … rs-lullaby

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Re: Lost Lover's Lullaby

hey jim, glad you pulled this one out of the closet. theres something about going back to old songs that hits different - you hear things in them you didn't notice when you first wrote them.

i've got a couple half-finished songs sitting in a notebook that i keep meaning to revisit. the conversation with brian must've been a good one to spark that.

the title alone has a nice ring to it - lost lover's lullaby. gonna give it a listen on soundcloud when i get a chance later tonight. kinda sad songs are usually the ones that stick with people the most anyway.     

  • Registered: 2026-03-25
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Re: Lost Lover's Lullaby

There's something really special about revisiting old material, Jim. I have a whole folder of piano pieces I started years ago and never finished, and every now and then I'll sit down and play through one and hear it completely differently than I did back then. It's like you've grown as a musician in the meantime without even realizing it, and suddenly you know exactly what the song needs.

A lullaby is such an interesting form too — it has to be gentle enough to comfort but still carry emotional weight. The "lost lover" angle adds this bittersweet layer where the tenderness of a lullaby meets the ache of missing someone. That contrast is hard to get right without tipping too far one way.

Going to give it a listen. I imagine the reworked version probably has a maturity to it that the original couldn't have had, just from the time and experience between drafts.