Sunday Sessions - Song 4
August 20th, 2006This one took me most of the afternoon and evening - I think next week we’ll go back to a simpler recording style, but for today we have a drum machine (which I programmed this afternoon), 3 guitar tracks, and multiple vocals. Let me know what you think.
Recording Session: Aug 20, 2006 /2:30pm - 9:00pm
Song: There’s a Place‚ written 2004
Lyrics:
there’s a place
on your neck
that i’m trying my damnedest to forget
there’s a light
in your eyes
like you gathered up all the stars and put them inside
and you wanted
and i wanted too
but the time just wasn’t right and the place wouldn’t do
so i’m left with a question
your ghost on my cheek
what do you do with a vision
that you know you never will see
looking for a home
that i’ve never had before
in the eyes of too many strangers and too many whores
but when i
held you close
knowing i couldn’t keep you, knowing i never wanted to let you go
never wanted
to let you go
but i was just a vacation for you cause you already had someone else to be home
so i’m left with a question
your ghost on my cheek
what do you do with a vision
that you know you never will see
and i’m left with a memory
that grows colder each night
that pales and fades and disappears
leaving only the ghost
of our one night
so i’m left with a question
your ghost on my cheek
what do you do with a vision
that you know you never will see
there’s a place
on your neck
that i’m trying my damnedest not to forget
there’s a light
in your eyes
like you gathered up all the stars and put them inside
On this day..
- 500 Words for 50 Days - 2008
August 21st, 2006 at 6:31 pm
I think that this is a really interesting recording. I like the experimentation. I’m not really sure I like the drum beat, but I like that you have it…if that makes any sense. I like the humming in the background, but I think it should be a little lounder. I really like the multiple voices and how you mixed your voice during the chorus…it actually reminds me a little of Vienna, by Ultravox. It’s a same that you can’t play the violin. I hear violins in this song (well, actually a fiddle). Also, I think a bass line would be cool.
I like the lyrics also…but I think you should experiment with some happy lyrics once in a while, Mr. Broody
I really like this Sunday Series!
August 21st, 2006 at 6:33 pm
My bad…it’s New Europeans, which is on Ultravox’s Vienna cd.
Sorry for the confusion.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Happy lyrics? What is this of which you speak?
Maybe in a few months, when I get around to doing the “write a song as suggested by a reader” challenge that you posed a couple of weeks ago, I will take on a happy song as a challenge.
Perhaps. What’s that quote about Anna Karenina and happy families being mundane, it’s the unhappy family we want to know about? I guess that’s how I’ve felt about songwriting. Sometime in the next several months I am hoping to get a keyboard and begin composing some different kinds of music than my traditional folk-rock-pop stuff.