I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band

By Scott Nesler

I rehosted a neighborhood friends band website OPEN>Sunday®. In lue of cash payment, I suggested the band leader spend an equal amount of time sharing commonalities in our passions of self improvement.

They're around a dozen musicians in the band. The group has a small following. Within the St. Louis area they play in a couple larger venues including "The Pageant" and "The Duck Room" within Blueberry Hill. Every Wednesday the band practices from 7pm to 10pm. July 21st, I witnessed the creative process for developing a new song. The focus, respect, and participation brought back thoughts to my understanding of Franklin's Junto.

I see OPEN>Sunday® as a group of guys lacking an agenda to become rich or famous, though they are interested in refining their music skills collaboratively.

The comradery in creating music could be duplicated to collaboratively write poetic journalism for the common good. In the writing profession there is a need for lead singers, drummers, lead and base guitarist to generate tunes of understanding.

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth
Meeting so many people
Who are trying to be free
And while I'm traveling I hear so many words

Language barriers broken
Now we've found the key
And if you want the wind of change
To blow about you
And you're the only other person to know, don't tell me
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.

A thousand pictures can be drawn from one word
Only who is the artist
We got to agree
A thousand miles can lead so many ways

Just to know who is driving
What a help it would be
So if you want this world of yours
To turn about you
And you can see exactly what to do
Please tell me
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.

How can we understand
Riots by the people for the people
Who are only destroying themselves
And when you see a frightened
Person who is frightened by the
People who are scorching this earth.

Music is the traveler crossing our world
Meeting so many people bridging the seas
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.
We're just the singers in a rock and roll band.
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band...

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley

 

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