Diving Belle

It's summertime, and I have lots of time for music again. It feels so good to be writing- I used to feel so confinedt topically, but now I feel free to write about whatever and whoever I want. There is some good stuff on the way. Ashley's been playing with me about three times a week- we're learning some old standards while I'm working on new material.

Alot of people have been asking how we got the band name "Diving Belle." I named the band before "The Divingbell and the Butterfly" was released; instead, the title is based on a poem I wrote a while ago. Here's an excerpt:

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Without you she'll wander

Where words are much fonder

Where kisses are sweeter

Than dreams now asunder

She'll never stop running

Where the wind wants to take her

And she'll never look back

To see what might chase her

She's gone too far now, you've lost her

In the ocean you bought her

She's a misenthrope master

She's a diving disaster

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