Archive for October, 2009
New Lyrics for “Harbor from the Storm”
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
It has been a long, nagging thing for me - I love the song “Harbor from the Storm.” It’s been in Tell Me a Beautiful Lie since very early drafts, and I feel like the story has always needed a big romantic number to let the audience understand Roman and Katya’s relationship, make Roman more human, etc. The trouble is that, since I’ve changed the show’s timeline, “Harbor from the Storm” no longer works dramatically in the place I’ve got it - the idea of promising to protect Katya from coming troubles (that he’s also excited about) just isn’t that pertinent to what’s going on at that point - which is, Katya is distraught that her worldview is no longer so simple as it was, and Roman has just rebuffed advances from another girl, and is fuming that the world doesn’t seem to share the ideals that he and Katya do.
So I’m brainstorming new titles for the song - I feel like a big romantic number is still required, and the tune works well enough, but maybe a new set of lyrics would do a world of good toward helping us feel Roman’s faithfulness to Katya, and perhaps set up a useful dramatic contrast with Katya’s newfound doubt. That is to say - Roman is principally convinced that he and Katya are soulmates because of their shared worldview. Her doubt, as such, is a little like cheating on him. That conflict could be mined I think.
I’ll keep you posted. (I say that a lot - but do I?)
The Lord Has a Will
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
I threw together a little (but melancholy) arrangement of one of my favorite devo songs, as I feel like I need a little discernment of God’s will at the moment: