This time I played the guitar first then played back to lay the lyrics. It is still in need of some loving. I would like to see if some one can put this on top of a techno type beat. I am also interested in anyone developing a beat for the song that is more traditional. If you come up with something hit the red button. Even if it does not match the current tempo or version. I would like to try and match some one's beat to this on this side too. Here are the lyrics:

Rainy Day Woman
I looked out the window and the rain was falling to the ground
it was the perfect representation of all the days since you ain't been around
I've gotten used to the view of watchin' you walking away from me
Guess Ill have to deal with it all, as long as you say, this is the way it has to be
But your still the one that makes me want to try to capture the sun
Maybe one of these days you'll come back this way looking for your number one

And in your eyes I find my peace of mind
Must be in the way you make your blue eyes shine

You seem to forget that when it got thick I came to your call
Now you know that I love you so all you want to do is run away from it all.
I'm not trying to hide the way I feel inside when you're on my mind
All the ways and the plays of the world show me you're the one I been trying to find

'Cause in your eyes I find my peace of mind
Must be in the way you make your blue eyes shine

I turn around to find you on the ground how did you fall sweet love of mine
I'd give it all to keep you from the fall if you'd only give me some of your precious time
I reach out my hand but you push it down with some sense of foolish pride
Don't you see that this feeling is not the thing from which you want to run and hide

'Cause in your eyes I find my peace of mind
Must be in the way you make your blue eyes shine

I played with the song a little and wanted to put where I took the poem. Here they are so far. Also I am adding the latest recording so you can hear how the new lines play in the song.

Unlock the doors and blow the windows open,
Stop the clocks and leave no truth left unspoken
Although when living true you may feel lost
A thousand times, the prize is worth every bit of the cost

You may want to live a lie in your life
But I wont live it with you
You might seem kinda lost at times
But Ill pull you right through...Ill pull you right through

So let down the walls and drop all the pretences
Dismantle the trapdoors and barbed wire fences
Invite the good, the bad, the beauty in
Through once thick skin, now beautifully thin

You may want to live a lie in your life
But I wont live it with you
You might seem kinda lost at times
But Ill pull you right through...Ill pull you right through

(solo)

True strength is found in those who cry the most
In those who neither need nor fear to ever boast
In the childishness of those in love with living
Who know that getting is a consequence of giving

You may want to live a lie in your life
But I wont live it with you
You might seem kinda lost at times
But Ill pull you right through...Ill pull you right through

Still off but I have to sit this one down a bit. I may play it live in a few places to see the reception. I hope some one out there at least digs the lyrics and chooses to work on the collaboration of this song. She needs some loving.

Crossroad Song

Well I'm not sure how to take all of this
The confusion lights up the things I've missed
All the times passed by without a thought
Finding only these things that I have lost.

I've been caught up around here
Holding on to whats not there
finding nowhere
that feels like home.

So the pain I bare in this world today
is from what I've done in my yesterdays
I'm stuck standing here looking face to face
With the flaws of how I ran the race.

I've been caught up around here
Holding on to whats not there
finding nowhere
that feels like home.

I've gotta find some way
I'm looking out for some how
We can make it someday
So, let's go for a ride.

Now I'm standing here in these crossroads
Knowing down one of them someday I must go
Being here anymore just dont work you see
Time to find the way back to being free

I've been caught up around here
Holding on to whats not there
finding nowhere
that feels like home.

I've gotta find some way
I'm looking out for some how
We can make it someday
So, let's go for a ride.

This is something I tossed together after looking over your lyrics. I didn't get a good enough reading through the lyrics but I want to post something to make sure I can find you later in the week when I can work more on this. Keep writing. Great lyrics.

Looking at all the wonderful records on this collab I tried to make the tune in my head come out. This is what I was able to record playing and singing this one out. I have the extended lyrics I am posting also. I am not feeling the last part yet though. So I though I could toss it up here and see if anyone has something catchy that fits in that fits that song.
One Foot In Front

I'm gonna put
one foot in front of the other
Until it all comes together
I'm gonna walk right out of here
There is no fear

I'm gonna start
By making it my own part
Holding to it with my heart
I'm filling up the shopping cart
We're outta here

Grab the keys little girl
we got a date with the world
and there's no holdin' back
we off the tracks yeah
There's no turning back

I see that shine
Right down at the end of the line
we can make it there for sure this time
I cant find the way we got in the bind
but have no fear
we're out of here

Grab the keys little girl
we got a date with the world
and there's no holdin' back
we off the tracks
no turning back

We walk a line
So fine is the way to our time
we're working out the bit in our mine's
No words are needed in this sublime
We're outta here
We have no fear

Grab the keys little girl
we got a date with the world
and there's no holdin' back
we off the tracks
no turning back

After reading Battered Hearts I started thinking about this track playing out at the end of the story to a fade out and credits. Then again it might be that I have been humming this song all day in my head and it just repeated again...lol. I also think the song I put together from Open the Doors worked well as maybe a background musical track in INT 6 with Laura as she is starting to tell herself it is never to late.

Something that came to my mind as I was listening to your LA LAs. =)

Im getting ready to put this thing together really soon. I just figured out how to get my Cubase software to work and I put this loop together. Funny story...Last Saturday night a buddy dropped by with this guy that was just all tore up and wanted to sing some blues. So I put this loop up and this guy went off the hook. It was a blast. Enjoy playing around with it. Please try to add a beat loop to this. It would be awesome.