My 13-year old Browncoat daughter stained the wood and designed the engrave. She also used the calipers for the first time. Me? I did a few quick calculations and pushed a few buttons. This is all her.
She inherited her artistic talent from you I see! (Looks great!)
Tell her we love it!
Thatās gorram gorgeous!
So fun to have a glowforge to enhance her creativity.
Came out real nice.
If sheās a Browncoat youāve raised raised her right
Shiny!
So to those who are in the knowā¦
We had a lengthy conversation about the lyrics. And, honestly, we went with what you see but weāre just not sure. We found competing lyrics on several sites. What say you?
āThereās no place I can beā¦ā vs āHave no place I can beā¦ā
Now, Iāll tell yaā¦ We listened to it over and over yesterday because the original lyrics we found said āHave no placeā and we weāre like āUmmā¦ Noā¦ Itās 'Thereās no place.ā And then we listened and went āHuhā¦ Is it āHave no place?ā I mean, that would certainly fit the speech pattern of the show and it makes a little more sense actually.ā But, as you see, we went with what we all originally thought it to be.
And the last lineā¦ We found three different versions of the lyricsā¦
āYou canāt take the sky from me.ā vs āBut you canāt take the sky from me.ā vs āAnd you canāt take the sky from me.ā
Again, we listened over and over and ended up with just āYou canāt take the sky from me.ā
Thoughts?
That sounds right, there are at least 3 versions that I recall.
She chose well picking the version that pleased her.
True enough. And thatās exactly what I saidā¦ āAre you happy with these lyrics?ā āYes.ā Then 48 minutes later we had a real nice engrave. Sheās thinking sheās going to hang it in her locker at school. Iām thinking I might just go ahead and make one for the rest of us to look at out of some cherry.
Great job & great inspiration!
You canāt take the sky from meā¦
You should also look up & listen to, a great version, adapted from Josh Wheatonās original for the series is āMalās Songā by Vixy & Tony on their first album āThirteenā (and at the time they recorded it, I was dating Tony, and was one of the folks that made up the chorus, since any time done live everyone sings along). Also on this album is āApprenticeā, a mesmerizing song about Inara. (And all this helped inspire much of my leather work & the path that Iām now blazing for myselfā¦)
Browncoats, unite!
I know Malās Song from āEscape Key.ā Seems to be the same tune. Says itās written by Michelle Dockrey though. I must say I think I prefer the Vixy & Tony version now that I hear it. I find the instrumentation to be perfect and also a bit reminiscent of The Eaglesā Journey Of The Sorcerer (used as the HHGTTG TV theme). Anyway, weād listened to the Escape Key version a few times to try and figure out the āThereās no placeā line, but that lineās not in the song at all for some reason!
Michelle is VixyāEscape Key was she & her husband Matthew before she & Tony started performing together & got more serious & got other musicians involvedā¦ Tony had a small home studio and spent a long time on the tracks. Iām not sure why she never used that lineāmaybe just didnāt want to be too much like Joshās version, or just didnāt fit her versionā¦
Tony learned well from his instructor & mentor, Jeff Bonhoff, who does not only original work, but has an amazing parody album āGrated Hitsā. Among many great tracks, there is a note perfect version of āBohemiam Rhapsodyā as āMidichlorian Rhapsodyā. And a few other Star Wars, Star Trek & other inspirations that are all really good.
Nice work. Cool the kido wanted to use the GF too.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
So fun to involve your daughter!