When You Call - WXPN 24 Hour Songwriting Challenge - Video

This is my 24 hour song When You Call!

It's about a long distance relationship, and finding belonging in each other even when apart. It's set to the backdrop of a relatively standard Saturday morning in my life, and captures real feelings that I like to feel.

To write this song I started by free writing to the prompt, and that gave me the idea to capture the story of an otherwise normal Saturday, focusing in on the call as the place of belonging. I wrote a few lines to get started and then sat down with a guitar to see what happened next

The song is written in open D tuning. I have never actually played in open D tuning before, but a friend of mine left my guitar in that tuning when he played it the night previously, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I looked up a few chords and came up with the first lick almost immediately, and the song really took off from there.

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Lyrics:

Jump out of bed my dear it’s Saturday morn
No time to sleep in I fear go pick up your phone
Cause the sun is shining brightly, and your dancing eyes delight me
It’s warm

We’ll start with a punch or two, a stretch of the limbs
A walk to my favorite spot for pancakes of kings
And it’s just like you’re beside me, breakfast cross the country, for two

I’ll quench my love with our strawberry coffees
Close the distance through your lips on my phone screen
You know they say that home is where your feet are
But I find mine when you call

Breeze through the door again take care down the street
it’s easy to trip on such uneven concrete
But the thrum of routines like this keep us on beat, with ease

I’ll quench my love with our strawberry coffees
Close the distance through your lips on my phone screen
You know they say that home is where your feet are
But I find mine when you call

and every now and then unexpectedly
You’ll brush by on a walk
And I’ll lean down to the left of me, so subtlety
Just to try and kiss your head

But in the end
It’s just empty space below my face
The ghost of you again
But you’ll call , you’ll call

Go round the corner and we’re back to my car
Kiss you goodbye my dear no matter how far