I’m taking a cue from our blogger friend and fellow musician songwriter, Gray Summers, and giving you a sneak peek into my ‘songwriting process.’ (Yes, I put that in air quotes because I still don’t really consider myself a ‘songwriter’ though I did write some songs a loooong time ago (when I was in high school)! Ha! I used to play Conductor too! (Probably another reason I fell for Yanni when I first saw him! Plus, he’s Greek. Ha!)
All that to say, I’m working on an original song about, Intimacy! Currently, I have four versions. Take a listen to each and let me know what you think. I’ve placed the audio clips in order of progress from the first Intimacy is not sex, to Intimacy is more than sex, to finally, Intimacy Matters.
The base lyrics I began with:
Intimacy is not sex. Put our heart out to all others. Through airwaves and motion. Video and Radio.
Use our words. Writing. Sharing frequencies.
Sharing our deepest thoughts and emotions. Like we have no skin on our bodies.
Yes, intimacy is more than sex.
Rewrite (using AI), here’s the lyrics for Intimacy Matters:
Verse:
Whispered secrets in the dark we share
Fingers trace the promise we declare
Every heartbeat holds a tale untold
In the stillness our love unfolds
Verse:
Eyes meet finding worlds within
Silent conversations start to begin
Holding on to moments soft and sweet
In this space where our hearts meet
Chorus:
Intimacy matters close and near
A tender dance where we have no fear
In each touch we find the spark
Lighting up the corners of the dark
Verse:
Laughter mingles with our tears
Breaking down the walls of years
In your embrace I feel so free
Every moment becomes a memory
Verse:
Gentle whispers waking dreams
You and I stitched in golden seams
We weave a life in softest threads
In love’s cocoon where nothing dreads
Bridge:
In your gaze I lose my strife
You breathe into me perfect life
Our souls entwined in cosmic mix
Intimacy’s magic in every fix
If you’re interested in songwriting, you might want to check out my husband’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey and Gray Summer’s blog: https://graysummerstwo.com
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Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story
Yes, Everything Happens for a Reason in the multiverse and Everything Resolves to Gratitude. Knowing that each of us (as fractals) uplifts my mind and allows me to view life as a lively kaleidoscope grand design that moves about in an ever-expanding, revolving, melodious, consciousness. Even if we have to disconnect from some people, for a time.
Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!
Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
About us
Richard and I play at the intersection of Energy, Spirituality, Health, and Music, to let FREEDOM ring for ALL! We’re down to earth (even if we are conspiracy theorists), yet not in the ground! We’re just dancing around in rhythm with the mystifying Multiverse… all humble like. But we’re always thinking, onward and upwards, so we keep exploring and creating!
My husband of 19 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 400 original songs).
Video of us performing Live: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share
All of our 400+ original songs are available for song placement in TV, film, games, etc. Video content creators, filmmakers, podcasters, production companies, deejays, Vloggers, YouTubers, and more can use our original music and songs in movies, TV shows, video intros, and such. We’re also seeking bands to play our songs. If you know of any up and coming musical artist, please forward this blog article to them.
Sheila’s books on Amazon
I have four books on Amazon. The two most recent are: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection. I invite you to check them out and leave a review on Amazon for me, if you’d be so kind. Amen. Namaste. OM
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The social channels where I am most active (after thoroughly testing out others in 2024, I’ve dropped a few. My stats revealed almost no one opened my blog posts from Substack, Locals, or Instagram. I still have accounts there but I won’t be posting to those anymore):
I’m in 4DU Community/Fellowship as a student of Aaron Abke. You can join me there by enrolling on his website: https://www.aaronabke.com/4duniversity/ I am in a couple of the Affinity circles. Also, I am on WhatsApp with my Dr. Bruce Lipton group, and I am part of a Theosophy book club, every other Friday (Let me know if you’d like to join us, it’s currently a small group). At any given time, I meet with a few fellow author and blogger friends on Zoom too, and am willing to speak with you by request. Amen. Namaste. OM
Integrating the Spirals 
I am missing the interactive vibe now. Have just started a blog subject on it. Cheers Sheila.
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Interesting how you can capture the different genres. I suddenly wondered if you could capture a ‘decades’ vibe too. The last one had a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ambience. Is the first one your own voice Sheila. Certainly sounds like yourself. This journey of yours is fascinating to follow. I have never tried anything AI at all. So it’s interesting how you are diving into this arena and making it all work really well.
The third is my fave of the longer ones. The way the songs end and then tail pieces come in is an interesting inclusion. And that one word at the end if one of them. Very unexpected. The first shorter song here has a vibe of innocence in presentation, and is actually my fave of all of them.
Thanks for the link Sheila. Much appreciated.
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Sure, Gray! I am enjoying our back and forth chats and learning from each other!
I don’t sing on any of these AI songs. Others have asked that too. Thus, the other night I asked Richard if he thinks the AI is using stuff from our hard drives ?? Or well, I do have my voice out there in internet land that it could pickup my voice through its entanglements. Interesting to think about huh?
I sooo appreciate your feedback on the songs and as usual, I agree! Spot on as you say!
I don’t know if there’s a way we can say, in the style of XYZ person or band. But I will try it. I know Richard wrote the name Sade in his lyrics for one song and it wouldn’t sing it. He had to write it out phonetically! Ha!
That led me to write OM out as OH-mm to get it to sing OM/Aum the way I wanted.
What is creepy to me is that I hear a breath in the AI singing every so often! How the heck?!?
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It’s just that the first song does sound like your voice. It is interesting about voice in internet land. Face recognition is pretty standard now. Manipulation of famous faces using AI accompanied with the person’s voice saying stuff that they never did actually say. Very creepy at times isn’t it. A breath inclusion!
And of course on the other end the scale is how you have to spell Om to achieve Aum. But, ending on a positive. The songs are coming along nicely and you have undertaken a new pathway into developing your songwriting skills. So all is good. Cheers.
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Oh, right! I know what you mean about the video manipulation techniques. Those are creepy too.
And about those tail pieces. I never have any control over if those show up or not. I know that one word at then (video??) surprised me too! I will cut that off (thankfully that’s easy to do) when I make the video. I will probably make a couple of videos for this song. I made two videos (each a different musical style) of The Bullies song. I am having fun making the videos.
Cheers, Gray!
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It’s always a great added extra with video support. I think I shall ask a friend who is an actor for ideas regarding lyrics alongside meaningful imagery for storytelling the song. Richard does that very well too. I did see your videos Sheila. I’m a bit lax in answering much presently across all bloggers. It’s due to this overwhelming tiredness. But spring time is around the corner. New energy hopefully. Yay! Cheers.
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That’s a great idea, Gray! To ask your actor friend about lyrics and meaningful imagery. Richard’s artist background helps him sooo much with that. I will tell him your kind words.
No worries about answering each post, Gray. I’m just glad you take the time to watch/read/listen.
Many blessings/much hope in your full health recovery, Gray!
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Those daily songs uploaded last year were amazing in the fact of the consistency of accompanying imagery Sheila. To have the artistic mind to keep creating like that.
Frankie the Feline Fella is a full on cat and eats into the concentration spent. No longer lingering reads like in the past. Sits and meows or yowls for constant attention. He’s back from the Thursday’s vets visit now after neutering, micro chipping and claw nail clipping. Got him flea and worm medicated too. But he isn’t going to be a cat let out on his own, so hopefully won’t catch anything like that. He was calm on coming back. Now to see how his temperament is from now on. Before? Very ‘feisty’ as Old Shep says. I said Frantic. I bought a plug-in diffuser to calm cats. It works by emitting specific pheromones. Fingers crossed. So, hence no ability to focus on music or blog reading like the past. He follows me around everywhere! With accompanying vocal chattering. Bengals and Maine Coons are notorious as you know. I remember you replying in a comment about that musician who recorded his cat. Maybe I can turn him into a superstar and become his manager. Buy him some bling and get him chatter rapping against one of my tunes.
Cheers Sheila.
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Oh my gosh, Gray, YES!! The Kiffness is the music man who loops in and harmonizes with the kitties (and more), and we often sit and drown in laughter watching his videos! ROFL
I bet between the neutering and pheromone emitting gadget, he will calm down. Then again my son-in-law’s bengal kitty kept talking til he passed away at about the ripe old age of 19 years! I suppose, like us, each are different.
I don’t think I could handle having any kind of a pet anymore. Two high maintenance shih-tzu kids with fur were enough for us! (We had both for around 14 years and they produced two litters of pups = chaos!)
I’ll be sure to tell Richard what you said about his art. I am still amazed at how he did so many photoshop pieces of art for each video. And now, he is cranking out multiple music videos a day using some AI graphics app (as well as the AI music generator app)! Ugh
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I am not a dog or cat person Sheila. As said when first bringing Frankie the Fella here, all ‘pets’ in the past were because the children were so insistent we had them. I don’t like calling them pets. Goldfish, hamsters, guinea pigs, cats. I ended up cleaning and feeding them all. I suppose I see them as part of the daily life and hopefully bringing calm energy at times. Being a vegetarian for 50 years was brought about because of respect for another living being. I know I say it was because of living above a Wholefood shop when 18 years old. But takeaways were always an opportunity to eat as many musician friends crashed at our flat. They brought food from the chip shop or Chinese and curry meals. I never ate any. It all felt wrong. Don’t eat fish either. Anyways, I still cook Angie’s steak when she wants one. Or take charge of a barbecue at times. So am no vegetarian or vegan warrior.
Frankie is Fine. He has personality. I don’t like the fact he is an indoors cat. But he does get easily spooked at any untoward noises when in the garden. Very jittery. I think he finds house ambience more settling. Before the vet visit he did yowl at the windows for outdoors. But a bit of rain or gusty wind he was straight back inside. Over the last two days he is more settled. Still noisy at times. But hey! That’s him telling his stories. Or complaining I don’t yet understand the finer qualities of the Bengal/Maine Coon language.
I am really happy Richard is still pursuing inspiration through new media. Once an active mind, always an active mind. He’s getting some nice AI imagery story boards together. Seems you are both embracing the new phenomenon of AI. Very interesting to see where you both go with it all. Myself. As per Danny’s penchant for older items with his fountain pen and new vintage items page on his ‘Chronicles of a Fountain Pen’ blogs…… I live Old Skool. And vintage is my first love. Hence my frustrations with using the GarageBand library for instrument choices. Much prefer real musicians. I am badly missing interactivity with other musicians to be honest. But beggars can’t be choosers hey.
Cheers Sheila.
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Ah, I sooo admire your “respect for another living beings,” Gray. And yes, the AI ventures… time will tell. I feel a bit like we’re feeding the beast though, ugh.
I remember that about your having to care for all the children’s animals. Oh yes! I did that too, back in the days my son and daughter would drag in every stray! Ha! Much to my chagrin when one time one of the kitties they brought home was pregnant and chose MY bedroom closet to have the little darlings in! I’m allergic to cats though much less nowadays.
I was highly allergic back then! My kids would just laugh when I sneezed my head off! Oy! Children.
I also so enjoy your Old Skool vintage everything. Must be the old soul in you.
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AI is a very strange affair. People say we get frightened when something of immense impact comes out for the first time. Fire, electricity, certain iconic books and films that change perception or offend sensibilities, the www. internet, Bob Dylan going electric….. 😆 Seriously though. Such forces have the added impact nowadays of being analysed by films or dramas in thoughtful, but sometimes very sinister, ways. My brother is very allergic to short haired animals. Horses and guinea pigs have been really problematic. He loved going horse riding too. Luckily my immune system seems genetically okay. My son is allergic to wasp stings. Probably bee stings too. But we don’t want to find that one out especially. And yes, vintage is a fascination definitely. Modern technology seems very here for a blink of an eye, then disappears. I have a book somewhere on what we all had en masse back in the days. Things that are no longer used as standard, but are still cult, preferred or iconic. Fountain pens, vinyl…… both great examples. Cheers Sheila.
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You have touched on many sound examples here, Gray, from the times of fire to AI. And then the allergic responses some of us have (I am sorry to hear that about your brother and son). Yes, I so agree that most people are fearful of the new technologies, and they preserve the old. But I see the value in both—or at least I try!
Cheers, Gray!
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I do see the values too Sheila. As a technophobe though, life becomes complicated nowadays for my tired out brain to cope with it all. So I suppose it’s nice to feel comfortable in past familiarity. This GarageBand learning experience is crazy enough to be honest. If I could swap it for a few musicians playing instruments alongside me, I’d thank the stars. And they could help with the GB recording craziness too.
The wasps are a worry. Anaphylaxis is a possibility. When the apples fall off the garden trees and wasps come in their dozens, my son isn’t allowed in the garden. Angie is very strict on that matter. A Mother’s prerogative.
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I hear you about the need for comraderie and jamming with real musicians, to me, that speaks to the symmetry between live musicians. The special sauce and play off each other’s performance.
Right, Angie knows best. Anaphylaxis is nothing to mess with (as you know). Neither are wasps. I was stung once. It was horrible.
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Wow, each version does equally drive the point of the song home, but you know me. I have to go with the heavy metal version.
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Ha! Yep! I figured you would prefer the heavy metal version, Michael.
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You know me so well, lol.
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