Hello, all.
I think tomorrow could engender some good song material. I may also be wrong.
Taylor Swift has released onto iTunes her new title song, Fearless. I love this song. It's her "best first date I haven't had yet." She inspires me. (Why are all my sentences the same structure and so stupidly simplistic?)
I don't know why I wrote this song. A friend asked "Do you think life should be more like a fairy tale?" And I'm feeling like I want a fairy tale right about now. I just pulled together a few ideas and wrote this in one sitting, but I don't know if it's any good. It's probably really lame. I'll rely on the judgment of my terrific readers. Reader.
More Like a Fairy Tale
She never looked too happy
and no matter what, said sorry
[there's a couplet here that I took
out right now for this release]
I was her friend and one day
she turned to me to say
CHORUS:
Life should be more like a fairy tale
love letters 'stead of e-mails
and the prince is always good and sweet
with looks to sweep a girl off her feet
and the girl is always his one princess
in a world where everybody says yes
and their dreams come true
let me tell you what I'd do
for my life to be more like a fairy tale
Wish I could sing about
the neighbor whose memories are falling out
and his wife, who he'll soon forget
but all she has is the one regret
he never rode on a horse with her
and off into the sunset together
CHORUS:
Life should be more like a fairy tale
love letters 'stead of e-mails
and the prince is always good and sweet
with looks to sweep a girl off her feet
and the girl is always his one princess
in a world where everyone says yes
and their dreams come true
let me tell you what I'd do
for their lives to be more like a fairy tale
BRIDGE:
I spent more time pretending
and staying up all night dreaming
until one day I saw him with her
and I knew it was over
CHORUS:
Life should be more like a fairy tale
love letters 'stead of e-mails
and the prince is always good and sweet
with looks to sweep a guy off her feet
and the girl is always his one princess
in a world where everyone says yes
and their dreams come true
let me tell you what I'd do
for my life to be more like a fairy tale
and then you came out of nowhere
with that smile and soft hair
you were the unexpected prince
and my heart jumped the fence
when you asked, I said yes
I was your princess
It's funny, now that I think of it. Taylor's song, "White Horse," has a chorus as follows: "I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairytale / I'm not the one to sweep off her feet and lead her up the stairwell /This ain't Hollywood, this is a small town / I was a dreamer before you went and let me down." Very opposite to this song, maybe.
Just tell me what you think, straight up. Thanks!
Much love, and thank you for the musik,
SNBK,BTCVWCTIIAL(ANS,WIVLFM).BNIFLABTB.
p.s. I'm am starting to compose my own chord backing/melody, so maybe someday I'll be able to play it. I love my guitar teacher. He's the most awesome person I have ever talked to.
p.p.s. Lewis Hamilton is a jackass.
16 days until Fearless!!!!
1 comment:
Hey!
It’s been a while. Reading your three latest posts makes me wish that I had commented on them as soon as they were put up. The change in feeling when moving from one to the next is startling. Wow. You’ve traversed through an entire era these past few days. I think I can say that without completely copping out.
Part of the reason that I’ve taken so long to respond is that I’ve been busier than usual. But the other part is that I simply had no idea how to respond. I know I usually say that your songs give me something to think about, but this one was something else. I thought about it a lot -- more than the usual, anyway. All of this crisscrossing of thought will probably result in a relatively incoherent comment. Sorry.
I told you one time that I spend more time dreaming than I spend making my dreams come true. You could say I have a penchant for idealization. I do it way too much, and I’m always trying to construct fairly tales out of the set of circumstances that comprise my reality. It’s just more satisfying to think about what could be rather than what actually is. One of the major drawbacks is that reality is a constant reminder that I’m not living like my idealized counterpart. Whatever. My view people is a byproduct of my idealizations. I love people. I don’t know how else I can say it. I just love being around them. I yell out to people all the time, just wanting to hear something back. Even if it’s an echo. I don’t want the walls of my life to close in on me and I don’t want them to be stagnant either. I just want them to reverberate with the human-to-human connection. People continue to astonish me. I was on the bus to Newark Penn Station the other day and all but one of the seats were taken. Soon after, a mom and her child got on. The mother placed her child in the empty seat, and a man in the neighboring seat offered to get up for the mother. My heart melted right there – I don’t know how else to describe it. I felt like everything was going to be okay, that all of the good in the world could outweigh the bad. Later in the day my friend and I got on the subway and we were lucky enough to get seats. We got off after a few stops, but as I was leaving I noticed that an elderly man, clearly in pain, was forced to stand because there were no seats left. For the rest of the day I felt like the most horrid person ever because I had forgotten to offer my seat to him. The image of him struggling to stand up still haunts me. Maybe I care too much. Maybe that’s a bad thing. Sometimes I feel like I’m swimming through crap just looking for the nearest floating, salvageable piece of humanity. But more often than not I find myself being part of the crap. And I hate it.
Damn it, I don’t know what I just wrote, and I’m too lazy go back and fix it. On to the better part though: your song! =) It’s not lame at all. Please. I don’t know how you can possibly think that. I think everybody’s searched for some sort of fairy tale at some point. It’s just wishing for something better, and I think that’s very human if not anything else. As this song is your version of a fairy tale, I think it reveals a lot about your character. That’s pretty obvious though. I love that your song starts with what your friend told you. It adds that whole story element, which I love. Reading your song reminded me of Taylor’s Love Story music video, with its Romeo&Juliet and Pride&Prejudice feel. It’s also the Disney romance thing going on, which is pretty cool =). Your bridge is cool too – it’s filled with intrigue! And your last verse is amazing. It concludes everything really well with a nice feel-good vibe.
Another super duper fantabulous song! Good luck with your composing!!
And thank YOU for the musik!
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