Now, I’m looking for some creative friends and fans to help me with some artwork! Just submit a piece to info@kennyeng.com by 7/24/2010 as a high quality .pdf file (the artwork may be resized to accommodate the album design). The winner will have their artwork professionally printed on the compilation album and will receive a free signed copy of the compilation album that features my new song along with some of San Diego’s best local acoustic talent!

All you need to include in the artwork is my name and the title of the song, “Torn”. The rest is up to you! Don’t worry if you aren’t sure about the specifics. We will make it work! Here are the lyrics if you need some inspiration.

Torn
Words and music by Kenny Eng
2010

Yesterday, I read
Never is a promise that can’t be kept
But I made it anyway
It’s the only honest thing that I have left
Today I take it back
I never meant to mean it like I did
It was just the other me
I’ve been forced to fight with

I’m constantly torn between two different mes
I can’t help but hope the me you want is the me you see

I had an afternoon
That could have been perfect had it not gone wrong
Too bad I sabotaged it
I prayed for rain all along
Is that what I deserve
I have a plan to send me home
But that’s just too untrue
And it’s all I’ve ever known because

I’m constantly torn between two different mes
I can’t help but hope the me you want is the me you see
I can’t explain why I went and did what I just did
I hate it more than you do, being so easily inverted

I can lock myself in my room all night
To keep from lashing out all the time
Everybody thinks I’m such a stable guy
But if only they knew
(End)

I’ll post the song eventually, too! Just waiting to hear some mixes from the album producers.

Good luck! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Kenny

I have this waking nightmare that something is going to go horribly wrong during the tour. Nothing life or death really but more like I won’t make it to a show on time because the car breaks down or I get sick and have to cancel half the tour. I guess it’s a good thing that I’m so worried because now I have great motivation to succeed. It’s a special honor and privilege to do what I do and all I desperately want is to NOT SCREW IT UP.

I’ve been writing this song about making mistakes. Not the heavy, brooding type of stuff that I normally write but a little more light-hearted (not by much, though). Thought I’d fine tune it on the road. Might debut it tomorrow night at Lestat’s if I finish it by then.

See you soon!
-Kenny