I don't think I ever posted this one in "Finished Songs"
I wrote it last year...I might have posted it in relation to my FAWM endeavours...but I did a search for it here before posting and got some twaddle about each word needing to have more that two characters
at which point I lost interest and figured I'd just post it anyway
It's indicative of what I've been up to lately...going to quite a few open mics and songwriter nights where I've tried to knock up a set of around 20 songs to play just with an acoustic guitar. It's quite interesting and I enjoy it to such an extent that I haven't bothered to write anything for a year or so. I've played 58 different original songs thus far at these nights over the last year or so, I think...some of them work well and some of them don't. Often, it's the ones you think will be OK that translate badly in that 1+1 format and some of the ones that you were concerned about that come out best. I've had to slow things down a bit...as I often give it too much welly.
I'll likely post a thread somewhere here with some more videos that my long-suffering wife took at a venue I've done a couple of gigs at this year...but for now, well...it's a "NO" from me...
It’s a “No” From Me
I don’t see what they see
I can’t be what they want me to be
I hear them say “Yes”
And I’ve tried to care less
But we fail to agree and so it’s a “No” from me
It’s a “No” From Me
I don’t hear what they hear
I don’t fear what they want me to fear
They don’t like my face
Or me taking up space
But I won’t disappear I’ll be scraping away the veneer
It’s a “No” from me
What else could it possibly be?
I don’t hear what they hear
I don’t fear what they want me to fear
They don’t like my face
Or me taking up space
But I won’t disappear I’ll be scraping away the veneer
It’s a “No” From Me
In the "studio" version, I followed the old punk rock adage of making the 3rd verse the same as the 1st verse...but, live, once I could see the whites of their eyes, I fancied doing the "they don't like my face" bit again.
It's perhaps an unusual way to present a song for feedback...but any thoughts are always welcome.