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I was inspired by Bosley to put up some original music.  So if you ever wanted copies of Ruby Slippers or Lie to Me they’re available for free download.  If you’re feeling charitable (hehe), you can also buy them for .99. 

xoxo -cct

I love when songs come from random inspirations – one-off lines that friends say.  Zinfandel was one of those songs (“pour me another glass of that wine” – trevor) and I suppose Believe is going to get added to that list (“…as if love has logic” – jesse).

In truth, I wrote most of Believe several weeks ago around Jesse’s birthday actually.  He and I were having a random conversation about love and logic to which he mentioned the line “as if love has logic” which got me to thinking because as a self-proclaimed “intellichick” sometimes I think my logic is the biggest problem.  Emotions aren’t logical in the least (except that it is logical that people have them), but my logic is all about protocol and “yes/no” and – whether I consciously do it or not – I’m always weighing percentages.

Ruby Slippers

I wrote this awhile ago and in testing out my new guitar, I ended up recording a YouTube video of it.  The song has obvious references to The Wizard of Oz and is about the idea of the yellow brick road as the road to life.

YouTube and Lyrics below

Ruby Slippers (cc.tran)

Ruby slippers on my feet
They cant seem to take me home
Howd I end up so deep?
To feel so alone?

Every time I seem to walk
The further I get behind
Every time I seem to run
Im running out of time

Just posted on ExperienceLA Blog – Geeks and Guitars: Fender Custom Shop and Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum.

On a random related note, up soon on intellichick.com will be the story of my guitar noted on the ExperienceLA post.  My guitar is named after poet Thomas Moore and eerily eventually signed by Tom Morello.  Crazy, right?

-cct