I haven’t written a goddamn thing in a month.
I am sometimes useless. I have developed a couple of concepts. Other than that, I have nothing. My genius is sort of lame.
So, as a question. I have this song concept I’ve been working on, in the key of D, that is ridiculously happy sounding. I need lyrics to it, but don’t want it to be happy. I’m thinking it should be something like The Who’s Substitute. Happy music, sad song.
The concept I have so far is about the freedom of people leaving your life. Somebody has to have something to offer, here.
I wrote this ages ago. Use if you like. Change if you like. Discard if you like:
The Entropy Song
Now there’s no time for explaining
As the conversation falters
And the words all lose their meaning
And the silence is expanding
Now a pocketwatch is slowing
And a filament is burning
There’s a line of thread unwinding
And a spinning atom dying
Now there’s lipstick on the mirror
And she’s vanished in the city
And her scent is disappearing
And a burning heart is cooling
Everything falls apart
Everything falls apart,
Everything falls apart in the end.
Comment by anaglyph — August 7, 2008 @ 6:24 pm |
Can’t help with the song, I’m afraid. I too feel like I haven’t written any good thing in a month. If creativity is stifled, why push it. Or is that the lazy way out?
Comment by Cléa — August 7, 2008 @ 9:57 pm |
You know, those lyrics won’t work for the song I wrote, but I love them. I’m getting a sort of minimalist Willie Nelson early years idea out of it. The words are so straight forward that I think an ensemble environment, unless taken on by the most tasteful musicians ever assembled, would cloud it. I am going to use it.
Clea: It is the lazy way out. I can’t even leave decent comments lately. What I have been able to do is run a lot more and really make leaps and bounds on my lifting. I’m playing around with picking up a martial art in the next month or so. Now something like MMA or Mui Thai (I’m already a plenty good brawler), but something pretty and sort of useless. I want to take advantage of my discipline lately and develop it. Then when the writing muse returns, I’ll have a new mind to deal with it.
Comment by Casey — August 8, 2008 @ 4:47 pm |