Just What's A Canker Sore
9 years ago
Monday, September 26, 2005
I'm twitch free! After 6 days! WHOO!
I've been getting into song writing lately. Ever since I got my super exciting keyboard! I've always wanted to write music, but I've never really had the means to do so. I've had a guitar for a number of years, but I'm not good enough on the guitar to try to write music on it. I find the task of writing a song rather daunting. I want to do it, but I always find it difficult. But I will perservere with it, because it's something I really love doing. I wrote my first real song on my own about 2 and a half weeks ago. I really enjoyed doing it, even though I didn't always find it easy. I started writing another song on Saturday, but it just wasn't happening for me. It ended up being rather tragic and nothing came from it, but yesterday I got some music down. Then last night I managed to write some lyrics. I always find it very difficult to write lyrics. I find myself in two extremes, either too corny or too abstract. It takes me a long time to sort out words that make the point, but don't sound cliche. I'm slowly getting there, but I have to go through a lot of crap to get where I want to be. Some of the things I wrote last night were so tragic I can't even repeat them! Ug... But I do love writing music and I'll continue to do it! I almost have another complete song! WHOO!
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Funny, I find writing so easy and fun, yet song writing can be so insanely difficult...
And I'm not sure about posting lyrics. I have issues doing that. I just feel like when I separate lyrics and music something goes missing. Then my lyrics sound dumb by themselves because they are designed to go with music. I guess I can post them (when I bother typing them up), but just remember that they might seem stupid on their own.
That's like being a hippy and forgetting to go to Woodstock, damn
YAY NO MORE TWITCH!!! do you feel free?
i have NO idea where that question came from... MY BAD
Verse 1:
How can you tell me
It’ll all be alright
What can you see
That I can’t see tonight?
The angle of the mirror
Tilts just to the left
I see a dim reflection
Of what was once my best
Chorus:
So I’m looking in your eyes
For a sign, any sign
That there is more than this
Is there more than this?
Is there more than this?
Verse 2:
I fear I had something
But now it’s gone
Tell me what I need
I’m sick of being wrong
Where do I begin
The rain falls so hard
It’s easier to run
Coz I’m scared of being scarred
Chorus:
So I’m looking in your eyes
For a sign, any sign
That there is more than this
Is there more than this?
Is there more than this?
Bridge:
What if I fall?
What if I give my all?
What if I fall?
What if I give my all?
And fail...
Chorus:
So I’m looking in your eyes
For a sign, any sign
That there is more than this
There is more than this
There is more than this
My only comment/suggestion would be that, you know how the last chorus is changed to show a changed attitude, a resolution to the singers soul searching right? Well, the actual lyrics don't seem to naturally arrive at that conclusion, the singer seems to sing the same uncertainties for the whole song, and then suddenly like an afterthought decides to be hopeful.
Or I misread the last chorus
And it's not that I think the lyrics suck, I just think they lose something by being read rather than heard as a piece of music.
And it's not that I think it's bad to end on a note of hope, a deviation from the expected chorus, I think it's great. But I just think the in between lyrics have to head towards it, even incrementally.
I'm sure there's more than this
And the start of the second verse is now:
I know I had something
But I fear now it’s gone
Can't wait to hear it :)