Stay Gold...

Stay Gold

I remember friends like brothers
when friends where what you lived for.
I remember friends always there,
to live your life with.
I remember friends who knew every secret,
when friends loved you
for everything you were.

Then it was you and me cause we
were in this crazy wreck together-
that being what we had.

It was everything.

It was gripping fear
that even the closest of friends grow
apart.

-Keith Hale
from his novel, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada

"My Love, Departed" (Vocal Demo)

This is a song from the musical "Elizabethtown" that I am working on with Andy Brown. I presented it some months ago as an instrumental here on YouTube. This is a vocal demo produced by Alex Newkirk (who is also a vocalist on the recording).

The song occurs near the end of the show and is performed by two of the main characters. Both have just lost their lovers to murder. The lyrics are by Andy Brown. I wrote the music. Andy Brown composed the descant that is sung over the second chorus.

The video is created from vintage footage of Estes Park Colorado.

music and lyrics copyright 2013 Spraggins and Brown