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Re Live By The Gun should have been titled

Don�t Live By The Gun

To preach is to deliver a sermon or an otherwise powerful message. ... If you're
giving an impassioned speech about recycling to an audience dressed in
reclaimed clothing and sandals made of old tires, you're likely to be preaching to
the choir. The word preach comes from the Latin prae, "before," and dicare, "declare."


The Two Opening lines of your efforts

Start with quote --- Don�t Turn Away From a Strangers Gun.

How many times have we heard that type of comment
From someone delivering a sermon ???starting with Don�t do this , and Don�t covet thy
neighbours wife That�s preaching If you had stated

Best Not To Turn Away From A Strangers Gun

It would not have made much sense because it makes the singer look like a coward,
but it would not be telling someone how to run their lives .

Listeners don�t like being preached to , our lines have
To be written In a more diplomatic way

Just look at some of the ten commandments most of
us would be familiar with

The Gamblers quotes that you quoted are Teaching Not Preaching , just read

the context they were used

He said ----You Gotta Know When To Hold Em

Know When To Fold Em (teaching not preaching)


Your tempo is far too slow --- if it was played at the tempo of The Gambler it
would not have been so painful
For my ears and others ,

If some people here can listen to that , well so be it
But to me it sounded like a joke, the sort of thing a comic states when he is
talking about the many bad songs written about country music.

Take a listen to ---Sunday Morning Sidewalk (kristofferson ) Thats a fabulous
song keeps one Interested from start to finish if his Demo to his Publisher had
been at the tempo of your efforts The song would have gone in the rubbish bin

Poor quality of Vocals ---- The Wrong Tempo� A Plot that makes no sense ----
These are all the things that a real musicians ear , has to get past . Does Yours??

If you are happy getting slaps on the back from PEERS
That�s okay. but , to be completely defensive to anyone
Who has the guts to tell you how you could improve
Tells me and others exactly where you are going in the music stakes ( No Wxxxx )

If you are writing just for friends that�s another matter

The mere fact that you have to question my standing
and experience , also tells me that your mind is too closed, because everything I
have stated is being HONEST, something you obviously cant cope with
an honest critique.

I work in the business of Song Writing, and A and R we don�t fall into those jobs
without Stage and Live Performance experience,

You know what to do just unfriend me , I wont bother to look in any more, for all
the reasons stated above no doubt you will be pleased .