It's always fun — sometimes shocking — to come across "lost" or forgotten music/lyrics.
A good many of my music notes were saved in earlier versions of Microsoft Word — some as early as Word 1.0 — old file formats which cannot be opened with today's Word.
Fortunately, Apple's TextEdit can open some of these. Wade through the resulting "digital junk" and something might be recoverable — and resdiscoverable.
Today, came across a complete set of lyrics for "It Is Done." I wrote the YES-inspired music in 1976, and have played it and practiced it ever since. I knew I'd written lyrics years later, but had lost track of them. Today I found an "It Is Done" file: it was recoverable — and so the lyrics were rediscovered.
Now, music and lyrics can come together again. Time to record it too!
Also recovered/rediscovered the lyrics for "Can't You See?" I recall being happy with how they turned out, and had been saddened to think they were lost.
Resurrecting "Can't You See?" will not be as easy as resurrecting "It Is Done": "Can't You See?" is a keyboard challenge for me. The only live recording I have of it has me struggling somewhat at points — and thus forgetting the words after the first chorus (meaning a complete set of lyrics was not available by other means)!
Probably a good challenge to take up!
Fun determining which was the first song I'd written, age 15. Rediscovered an old note that established "In Your Eyes" as that song.
Haven't played "In Your Eyes" in too many years. Will have to brush that song off!
Onwards!
Warmest aloha,
Cat
