Morning In Venice

MORNING IN VENICE [Outtake from All Your Heroes Become Villains]

Music and lyrics by Ed Hale. Vocals and guitar: Ed Hale. Background vocals: Karen Feldner. Recorded at Hit Factory Studios. Miami, FL 2006. Engineered and Produced by Fred Freeman. Mixed by Fred Freeman.

Morning in Venice is exactly what it sounds like. A beautiful quiet sunny morning in Venice. I spent a summer in Italy studying Italian. Primarily lived in three cities attending language schools by day: Florence, Venice, and Rome. I was experimenting with this new open tuning on my guitar, an open D9, in my spare time. This song was something that I used to explore the different chordal possibilities of the tuning just to get used to where the fingers sounded good or not. I found the song one morning over croissant and espresso. Venice was IT for me. More than any other place I’ve been in my life so far. I felt like I had been on a space shuttle and transported to another world. But a world that I instantly fell in love with. The tens of thousands of tourists notwithstanding, I still managed to dig the vibe there more than anywhere else I’ve ever been on earth. (Esfahan in Iran gave me a similar feeling, and though I’ve not been to Morocco yet, I get the feeling that it will hold the same special energy for me. Just a hunch I have.) I played the song countless times over the next few months while there and eventually a melody appeared. At that moment in time I was desperately trying to memorize the Italian personal pronouns. So I used this song as a way to memorize them by just singing them over the melody of the song. “Mi ti lo la ci vi le.” Those are the actual lyrics of the song. No more. No less. Italian pronouns. I played it for my teacher in Rome and she thought I was insane. She couldn’t tell if I was joking or not. I guess it would be the equivalent of someone singing a song that said “Me you he she us them” in English. But I still loved the song regardless. We tracked the song for the All Your Heroes Become Villains album and I never bothered to tell the guys in the band what the lyrics actually were, thinking it best to keep it to myself. But due to space constraints we ended having to cut the song off the album anyway. That’s Karen Feldner singing along with me as always.

Lyrics

Mi Ti Lo La Ci Vi Le

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