February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Searching For Something (*21768)

squirt

The demo for this song is available elsewhere:

www.opendrive.com/files?NV80MTExMDRfN1hFQnQ.
(FAWM takes no responsibility for the content of this link.)

Tagged As:

upbeat love

Liner Notes:

My message to life is this: please do not bring me extremely nice young men when I (and they) are only in a place for a few days. It's just mean.
Thank you.

**** ROUGH demo now up. The text sound halfway through is fully intentional. *ahem*

Lyrics:

I'm not the kind of girl
who's usually forward,
but it's been a long time
and I'm kinda bored.
So when you walked into the room
I noticed you.

We were both kinda
sorta shy
but the only space left
was by my side.
I had no complaints
my night changed.

Yeah.

(CHORUS)
And this may be nothing
but I've been searching for something.
Yet, if I ever find it,
it's always with bad timing.
Couldn't you have been
harder to like
if you're just gonna pass through my life?

As you looked me
right in the eyes
and turned on that
indulgent smile
all I wanted was to keep
you there with me.

If we hadn't
talked all night
or danced
in the half-light
I would not have let myself fall
for you at all.

Yeah.

(CHORUS)

And you said to me
'it's a shame
that I leave this town
in two days.'
Impossible right from the start.
Well, tell my heart!

And so we each said
our polite goodbyes.
We'd already used
all of our time (together).
And though I knew you couldn't stay (forever)
It was hard to watch you walk away...

CHORUS

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jessicagraae 3 months ago

This is really soothing to listen to. Thanks for commenting on my song. Now I get to watchlist you!
squirt 3 months ago

@ego093
Hm- I can't actually remember! And I clicked 'mix and render' in Audacity, so can't check. Best guess is about 5...
ego093 3 months ago

Backing vocals are really cool. How many tracks did you end up recording?
lapetitekiwi 3 months ago

Your words really convey how bittersweet the meeting was, beautiful!!
stephenwordsmith 3 months ago

The pacing is very interesting here. There is a certain sparseness, which gives the song an appropriately conversational tone. Your lyrics have the appropriate level of drama to them: no theatrics here, just a sadness mixed with the resignation that this sort of bollocks happens far too often.

Also, no demo is so terrible that it doesn't deserve to be hosted