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I Like How it Feels

from Redemption Road by Sandy Kilpatrick

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This song was written on a glorious day, in a little room in a stone farm-house with oak floorboards, which had recently been converted into a music conservatory. I was on my own with just an acoustic guitar and a piano.

The light was beaming in through the window, and I could see the dust speckles swirling in the rays of the sun. The window is one of those Georgian style windows, with little white wooden squares, and the only thing I could see of the outside was a great big orange tree. I love orange trees; they are so colourful and full of life. It’s just how I felt on that day, and I had discovered a simple new way to play these chords in the key of E major. I was kind of thrilled with the sound and fluidity of my playing, the sun and the freedom to create. Living in the happy world of the major key, I was feeling life very deeply, and feeling in tune with the universe. The song came through very easily and I think it reflects these feelings very well.

I have been working for a while on my first book of poems, You Are as Big as The Sun, and I gave myself the condition that the styles and subject matter would be very different from the songs I was writing for Redemption Road. In some way the moon, and its feminine aspect, and her power connected to the subconscious, all seemed to grow in relation to the songs in a natural way. But I Like How it Feels is the song that bridges the album and the book, and owes as much to the sun as it does to the moon.

The opening line refers to a party I was invited to, on the farm of a wealthy American couple living in Portugal, in the summer of 2008. He was an inventor, and his house was full of the kind of eccentric objects you’d expect from an inventor – African sculptures, a marble bust of his father, a pair of Rothko originals, and a collection of Hogarth etchings (which he’d discovered by accident in an antique chest of drawers). His wife was an ex-dancer, but she was still bursting at the seams with the dancing bug. I found myself whipped up to dance, and there I was dancing like an expert to jazz beneath the stars, with my kilt swirling like some Scottish Dervish.
It was like a scene from The Great Gatsby.

I had worn my kilt as a little bit of a playful joke really, playing with the biscuit tin image of the Scotsman – but that night I had an amazing feeling of the poetic power of history. That image was so much more than me - it was a graceful image that represented the hopes and dreams of a wild and noble people. I was privileged to be alive, there and then, with those people at the party, just the way I chose to be - as a Scotsman, and a Poet. I was intoxicated by the burning reality of our immediate world, of living in the present, lost in conversation, dancing, playing basketball in the orchard by the light of the moon. We talked of Walt Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg, of Samuel Beckett and Fernando Pessoa, and there we were, with the power of language and our spirits open to the simple wonder of the Universe.

It seemed to me then it was enough to simply be.

I think this feeling is what the great Mystics talk of when they talk about God.

lyrics

I felt like a poet
Beneath the full moon,
In the eyes of Diana
We’ve been renewed:
We’ve harnessed a force that burns
It’s burning as bright and big as the sun
A myth of wild horses…spinning wheels
Your love is strong……….and I like how it feels.

I like how it feels
I like how it feels
I like how it feels

The soul is a witness
To all we’ve been through
And my heart is a chamber
The Lord made for you:
We metamorphise in Spring,
The mysterious growth of a butterfly’s wings;
I’m the egg in the nest the magpie won’t steal.
Your love is strong
Your love is strong
Your love is strong……….and I like how it feels.

I like how it feels
I like how it feels
I like how it feels

credits

from Redemption Road, released April 25, 2012
Voice and acoustic guitar: Sandy Kilpatrick
Drums: Sérgio Vicente
Bass: Emmanuel Martins Coelho
Trumpet: Zé Barroso

Violin 1 – Margarida Gomes
Violin 2 – Elisabete Gomes
Viola - Natália Gomes
Cello – Natércia Ribeiro

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Sandy Kilpatrick is a soulful singer and songwriter from Scotland, currently based in Portugal.

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