The Weekly Song

Week 47 - My Love

I'm no Stevie Wonder, but I've finally given a whole-hearted go at writing a song about my daughter. It is unapologetically sappy, and a little mushy gusy, but the tempo moves a bit so hopefully you won't notice all that too much.

 

Song 47 - My Love

i don't try to figure out things
i like to live with surprise, with surprise
and if i have you i don't need anything
i just need to see what's in your eyes

don't wait to try it out
everything ends somehow
and you're growing up every hour

i know you'll break my heart, but you made it love
come here and break the part of me that you made, my love
just like the day is long
in here there is no wrong
no wrong
oh my love

i'm not sure of many things
and i really don't mind it that way that way, so i say
and if i have you so i don't need anything
i just need to see you for the rest of my days

don't wait to try it out...

Song 44 - In the Way

Another collaboration with guitar master, Joe Pepe. He came up with the acoustic guitar basis for the song, I added vocals and a very simple lead guitar part, then he added acoustic bass.

I'm really into this one.

In the Way

Week 36 - You Do

Told you this one would be on time!

It's about my Dad. But really, aren't they all, when you get right down to it?

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Week 31 - Heart is a Hole in Your Head

There's something going on with my MacBook, so I had to record this one on JF's computer.  For some reason, the MacBook pro doesn't have the crinkly fun built-in mic that the regular ol' macbook does, and this recording suffers a bit for that.

Otherwise, this is a pretty decent song, with some pretty good lyrics.  (It's depressing as hell though).

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Week 29 - It's All the Same

This is what happens when you try to love me while I have PMS and writing a song is involved.

Here's to the good sport.

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Enjoy.

Week 26 - Make Me Believe

first of all-

HALFWAY!!   HALFWAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

half. way.

This one came out pretty quickly.  It took me all of 15 minutes to write and about 2 hours to record.

I actually think it came out quite nicely.

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Week 23 - Everyone Else

I'm gonna have to be up front with you about this one.  If you're currently in love, or if you'd like to believe that you're currently in love, you're going to love this song.  If you are NOT in love and/or believe that it's not a likely state of being for you in this current life time, you're going to hate me and this song for the rest of your breathing days.

My deepest apologies if you identify with the latter category.

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lyrics
i don't care how sad everyone else is
they never cared about me
you and me have that thing everyone else is
dying to believe in
i'm not made of stone

but i don't care how cruel everyone else is
you're never cruel to me
just let'em stare if we got that thing they're
dying to get a peak at
i'm not made of stone
i'm just flying...

i don't care how old everyone else is
you don't seem old to me
and we're gonna have that thing everyone else is
too afraid to believe in
i'm not made of stone
i'm just flying too high above
all of the problems that
kept me from trying i'm
flying too high above
everyone else

Week 19 - On Our Way

I'm just gonna come out and say it.  I think this song is awesome.  I think the production is pretty tight and I think the song itself has the potential to actually make people feel good (like a real pop song) not depressed and/or hopeless (like a typical Stellini song).

Part of the reason for why I'm so in love with this week's song is that in came from a pretty happy place, and if you've ever written a song, you know just how hard writing from that place can be.  So, this song basically saved me from having to start an unnecessary fight with my boyfriend to churn something out this week.  I susupect this is the reason why he digs it so much too. 

Special thanks this week goes to Mr. Jesse Pagano for adding to my swirly-bendy-swirly solo section with a neat little slide guitar part.  There are three lead parts in that solo section - 2 guitars (one of which sporting a pretty normal guitar sound, the other being Jesse's tripped out slide guitar), and the third is something else.  I want you to guess what it is.  Free cupcake for the first correct guess!

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lyrics
watching you breathe and i'm not afraid
of feeling like this is
what i've always wanted, well, since i cold say,
'i'm feeling like this is
never gonna happen to me'
can it really happen with you?
watch you sink to a higher place

leaving the answer
on your lazy smile
i believe it when you say you wanna take me away
to no particular place
i believe it so i sing it and we're on our way

keep falling over in a different way
feeling like this is
standing up, walking into the wake
of feeling like this was
never gonna happen to me
is it gonna happen with you?
watch you float to a deeper place

leaving the answer
on your fading smile
i believe it when you say you wanna take me away
to no particular place
i believe it so i sing it and we're on our way

Week 14 - Flu Not a Heart Attack

Since I started this project (and proceeded to write nearly a dozen songs about one single boy*) Angela Bowers and I have been joking about needing a quarterly boy about whom to write these weekly songs. 

Be careful what you wish for.

This is another one of those songs that I put together out of a bunch of ramblings that made no sense at the time, but hang together in a way that is rather illuminating. (if knowing more about my psyche can be classified as illuminating in any way to anyone but me).

I think it's about falling for somoene, or more accurately, meeting someone you think you could fall for and then deciding it's probably best not to.

Thanks this week goes to Christopher Plummer and Ms. Bowers (the latter for lending her much needed and oft-appreciated guitar skills and the former for once again lending a solid pair of trusted ears).  Truth be told, there are few weeks that don't get a good Plummer once-over.  

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* He's actually more man than boy, just for the record.

lyrics
i make every mistake for a reason
you now every sad song has a season
turned it over again in my mind
and i'm not giving in this time

real love creeping in can be deadly
turning every sad song into a medley
of never quite getting to find
a diamond that really does shine
so I'm not giving in this time

you can take it back
caught your flu, not a heart attack
and i'm not looking back
your flu is not a heart attack

someday you'll take it away for no reason
saturday? or maybe today. it's the season
turned it over again in my mind
the hows that don't have a why
i'm not giving in this time

you could take it back...

 

Week 9 - Size of the Sea

Here is the fifth installment in the saga of my efforts to document every single emotion swimming around inside me regarding a certain subject who shall remain, now and forever, nameless.

Production notes: drums on this one! Looped drums from Logic, but drums none the less. They don't sound half bad.  Bass, oddly enough, is my acoustic guitar with tons of wacked out EQ on it.

I'd also like to give special thanks to a Mr. Christopher Plummer, for providing alarmingly insightful feedback on the mix (this week and the week prior). I spent my entire Sunday working on this - approximately 11 hours straight - and was subsequently quite delirious by the time I was ready to cut and print (or bounce and rip as it were). Can't tell you how invaluable a trusted pair of 3rd party ears is in that situation.

This one's kinda epic.  It's like my Freebird.  I hope that doesn't scare you.

 

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lyrics
take what you want
just don't try to take it from me
you got the heart
why would u come back for the sleeve?

all the pain should've told you
all the air couldn't hold you
in a room the size of the sea

you were found
till you heard it coming down
don't look now
but i think it's coming down
fill a room the size of the sea

you broke apart
and you're holding it all at the seems
wish you could start
wish you had enough left for me

all your chances are over
and all the ways that you know her
fill a room the size of the sea

you were found....