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Adam Falcon
Adam Falcon

, I started focusing on up to close my bedroom window. encouraged me to write in that
ssing of a musician Before doing so, I sat in bed pondering tradition. Paying homage to her, I’ve
mely death struck a that dream. Dreaming about my set my lyrics to music based on a 12
g me of my mortality. mother sparked re-occurring thoughts bar Blues, dividing it into 4 verses, the
me period, another of my two friends, and the loss of my 1st verse repeating at the end. Each
g the possibility of mom. Waking up and reflecting, verse tells its story line by line,taking
incarcerated. I could brought me to tears - hence the title inventory of my life and life on the
on what pain he must “Woke Up Cryin’. “ Remembering I whole.
onfronting separation, hadn’t closed the window, I noticed it
lose his child forever was raining. The urge to express my Website...
hese isolated feelings needed to be born. Knowing Spotify...
d repeatedly in my that rain was the perfect metaphor to Soundcloud...
use, my song was about to be
conceived. Instantly, the first line of
I’d lost my mother lyrics came hand delivered - “ I woke
ver time I’ve had ran- up cryin’ the tears fell like rain”.
bout her. One night
h a dream, I’d gotten My mother loved Blues music and

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