You Are The Moon

by @tcelliott

Liner Notes

#rock #acousticguitar

This was supposed to be a love song for Phoebe. I guess it still is.

Critique welcome: Especially on the lyrics but everything is fair game.

StuffI used: Yairi Alverez Acoustic Guitar Fender Modern Player Telecaster Short scale Squire Jaguar Bass Superlux S241 small diaphragm mic samples for drums

Lyrics

The horizon swoons at the thought of the night Seductive in her slow paced dance The echoes shatter against the red light As dusk takes its final glance

I stand here resolute Anticipating you

For you are the moon And I am the stone You conquer the gloom As I stand alone You light the way Reveal the unknown For you are the moon And I am the stone

My mind swirls as I'm waiting for you Anxiety overwhelms Worry grows as I'm guarding this tomb But I won't let it break this spell

I stand here slowly consumed Anticipating you

For you are the moon And I am the stone You conquer the gloom As I stand alone You light the way Reveal the unknown For you are the moon And I am the stone

I persevere, I know I must wait Still, I can't help but doubt I don't want to contemplate A bleak sky covered in clouds

For you are the moon And I am the stone You conquer the gloom As I stand alone You light the way Reveal the unknown For you are the moon And I am the stone

For you are the moon

You conquer the gloom

You light the way Reveal the unknown For you are the moon And I am the stone

Comments

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That is a kick ass chorus, a proper belter. For a while I thought you were singing "you concur the globe" and I thought that was a nice bit of imagery of a moon trekking around the world. I choose to believe that is what you sang. I also really like your treatment of the acoustic guitars. They sound a little out of sync but it really works .

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This sits really nicely in your voice, man. Awesome. I was rocking out and singing along by the end

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As everyone's been saying, that chorus is killer! Great hook, like Jack Johnson meets John Mayer

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Such an instantly catchy chorus. Your voice sounds great throughout the whole thing, but especially on “you light the way” nice dude, you’re killing it!

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That chorus soars! What an epic ballad, that's extremely well produced!

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I really like this one. Great singing, especially loving the second part of the chorus where it goes higher. Catchy stuff!

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Nice one-- the chorus is really strong and I'd leave that alone. You wanted critique, tho on lyrics so...... The verses, especially the opening one, kind of have a sit-funny phrasing where you try to cram too many syllables in there? but maybe something else to consider is that while the choruses are wonderfully abstract- which is great, but have a contrast in the verse, in other words, don't be afraid to get granular and specific, as those little grounding details can illuminate something larger. Rather then start with the kind of abstract 'tho horizon swoons at the thought of the night', let us know why this person is the moon to you.... maybe in some more concrete (but can still be poetic) way? These things are always easier to say 'do x instead of y, but then doing it, yeah, its not easy! hope that helps, I like this song alot, and you're on that road to a very good one indeed!

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What a great song! I always love songs about the moon anyway--I've written quite a few and commented on someone's "moon" song here yesterday. It's always such an inspiration. Great job! ❤️

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These lyrics are sublime, I love the imagery! The music is really great too, I love the melody, it’s super catchy, I feel like I’ll be singing this around the house for the next few days and coming back to listen again!

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i enjoyed Betray The Blue so much i had to check out your other songs - i would happily buy an album full of songs like this - really catchy and some great lyrics

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The verse melody could use some tightening. The chorus works really well. If possible you could take it even higher in the vocals to make it soar even more. Maybe add some heavier guitar power chords for the chorus also to make it punch more? This is already a very solid song. That chorus really gets stuck in the head.

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Heya. Thanks for the comment/critique. By melody tightening, do you mean the actual melody or phrasing or something else? (No worries if you don't have time to revisit.) I tried some more power chords but they weren't sitting right so I omitted them for FAWM. Will revisit. Thank you, again.

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No notes. This is dope af. Well produced plus you play a jag bass. That’s up there with a pocket bass/matching guitar in my wishlist of gear.

Your vocal delivery is especially good in this one and the guitar sounds so good.

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This is a really cool tune. One idea to maybe try is to slow down a bit on the verses, and then speed up and hit the chorus really hard. Rock on!

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Acoustic guitar is sounding great on this! Great song all around. I especially like the chromatic chord movement into the bridge and at the end

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I think this is great. If I were to edit anything in the lyric I think I'd try to evaluate the "You conquer the gloom As I stand alone" line to see if that's the final one or not (it might very well be!). Really strong stuff TC. ❤️

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Beacon already said it but maaaaan that chorus is fantastic (I mean the whole thing is but still)

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That chorus is a banger! I love how the melody goes up on "You light the way". It's a sort of arena love ballad. This feels great. One of my favorites you've written (and I've heard a lot of them!)

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