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Focus On What

from A Grand Adventure by Chris Harris

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I tend to get laser-focused on songwriting during these challenges. I spend a lot of time in what Mihály Csíkszentmihályi called "flow". So I tend not to notice what's going on around me as much, hence this song...

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It has taken me a week to notice
I had the wrong date on my watch
My eye for detail clearly lacking practice
My inattention needs to drop a notch

An easy target for the web's distractions
I'm channel surfing in a chain reaction

I've got the where and I've got the who
You've got the when, so that means bully for you
I think the why is where I lose the plot
That being so, I'm going to focus on what

The siren call of all of my devices
Makes it too easy to give in to fun
Cuts all my time into decreasing slices
When I really need to get things done

Turning the power off as a solution
Was not as simple as I thought it looked
For while it reinforced my resolution
There's still my growing stack of unread books...

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from A Grand Adventure, released August 3, 2023

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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