Oh, Dear Lord

Don’t even listen to this. I started writing the music for this in 2007 and just started fleshing it all out last year. While I did write the lyrics over the past six months, please, for the love of God, don’t read into them. Everything I write is an exaggeration. I’ll probably have one more and then (hopefully) be done with the post-relationship bullshit in my songs. It’s depressing.

It’s not that this song didn’t turn out how I expected, I think I just overdid it. By a lot. Also, today wasn’t exactly a “good voice day,” so forgive the vocals. (I was extremely tempted to tune some parts. Damn my dignity.) So, I was going to leave the song alone, but it’s this behemoth piece of music that had lyrics and melodies written, so I didn’t want it to it go to waste. It will never be played our used, but I feel great about having it out of my writing queue.

So, there’s that!

#30: Crisis on Infinite Earths (You’re welcome, Max)

Linear

So I guess I’m into writing really linear songs now. Since I’ve started actually teaching people how to play my music, I’ve realized that it would probably be a lot easier if the songs were… a lot easier. I’ve also gotten a lot of criticism about the needlessly complex places that my songs inevitably end up, and my only real response to that is “Cardiacs.” But hey, I feel like my life’s mission is to save music from… people… i.e., it’s my hot body, I do what I want.

This song doesn’t really have any direction, but I kind of like that about it. It complements the lyrics (and the incredibly consistent subject matter of the last three songs I’ve written [!!!]). Who needs choruses? I was talking to a friend this week about how lyrics are always the last thing I’m concerned with when writing a song. Does anyone want to be my Bernie Taupin? I tend to use a lot of words to say very little, or just vaguely say a lot of things. There’s a Lyric-writing for Dummies book, isn’t there?

Forgive my lack of pop filter and “falsetto.”

#29: Friction