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Originally posted by U2Nick:[..]

Thanks!

I don´t need any of this
I am begging you please
God, I just want to live
I regret my thoughts

I lost the faith I once had in me

That's the most "religious" part of the poem, and it is saying that the author has sort of turned away from it before, and now wants to rejoin the club in a sense. Obviously, the author does not want to be in that distressed state, but there really isn't another option. Like it's forced upon the author. I mainly used "awkward" to describe the unsure feeling about religion that the author has.

That's the best part about writing... everyone can take it anyway. Half of the job is done by the audience.

you know what´s nice, it´s kind f what i felt when i wrote but i kinda didn´t want to put it in the song.... and u still got it lol... but yeah, half job is done by the listener... and thank u for the attention to respond

U2Nick

14 years

Here's a few parts of a new song that I'm working on:

Ability To Care

[chorus]
As we collide, I realize; (It’s rare)
The stars realign, no secrets confined, (It’s rare)
The thoughts we’ve let go, restoring the broken halo (It’s rare)
As we collide, we recognize
(Ability to care
Ability to care)

[outro]
(We will be alright, we have taken flight)
repeat a few times, etc.

This one should prove to be one of my more "different" pieces. Mainly because I'm writing it with a different mindset. I usually write a song as if I'm going to sing it, but I picture this being sung by the singer that my band will eventually find and myself doing back up (my parts being in parentheses). Also, It will be written over the course of a few sessions. I usually scrap things like this, but I know that it will just work out better if I wait for a better chord progression. I'll keep the one that I have now for the chorus and outro however. [Cm, Gm, Ab, [i]Bb[/i] (switching off with Fm when necessary)]

U2Nick

14 years

Originally posted by NLOTH_Victor:[..]

you know what´s nice, it´s kind f what i felt when i wrote but i kinda didn´t want to put it in the song.... and u still got it lol... but yeah, half job is done by the listener... and thank u for the attention to respond

You must have been in a really great writing state, because what was really inside you came through, even though you didn't want it to. No problem.

LikeASong

14 years

Ok, it's a pretty simple love poem/song (I once tried to musicalize it - no success

), it's nothing special, but I feel it might be worth sharing since it included the strong ressembly with the Alex poem or sketch or whatever

I hope you like it. It was written the day my girlfriend and I started to go out, lovely 10th of december

It was also one of the few times that I wrote something entirely in English, and later one translated into Spanish. It uses to be the opposite.

(untitled...) - by Sergio Santos - 10th of December, 2008.

None of this feelings are meant to be shared
We're alone in this world, in despair and strange
Are we right, are we wrong?
At least we're alive, like it or not

I was on my own, hiding from the world
Lost in my thoughts, lost in the sky
And telling me sweet lies, whispering kind words
You brought me, brought me back to life

Sweet, sweet love stories
Sweet, sweet love lies
Sweet, oh sweet loneliness
You brought me to life

We went on a love trip around those landscapes
The landscapes we build in our minds
The night we came back she shown to me
The sunset and the birds reflecting on the sea

We don't know if this story is real
All we know is we anymore have fear
Shame, sadness and nervousness
They all have vanished and disappeared

Sweet, sweet love stories
Sweet, sweet love lies
Sweet, oh sweet loneliness
You brought me to life
Oh, you brought me to life...

Fuck, this is way more embarrasing than I had predicted

WojBhoy

14 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:Ok, it's a pretty simple love poem/song (I once tried to musicalize it - no success ), it's nothing special, but I feel it might be worth sharing since it included the strong ressembly with the Alex poem or sketch or whatever I hope you like it. It was written the day my girlfriend and I started to go out, lovely 10th of december
It was also one of the few times that I wrote something entirely in English, and later one translated into Spanish. It uses to be the opposite.

(untitled...) - by Sergio Santos - 10th of December, 2008.

None of this feelings are meant to be shared
We're alone in this world, in despair and strange
Are we right, are we wrong?
At least we're alive, like it or not

I was on my own, hiding from the world
Lost in my thoughts, lost in the sky
And telling me sweet lies, whispering kind words
You brought me, brought me back to life

Sweet, sweet love stories
Sweet, sweet love lies
Sweet, oh sweet loneliness
You brought me to life

We went on a love trip around those landscapes
The landscapes we build in our minds
The night we came back she shown to me
The sunset and the birds reflecting on the sea

We don't know if this story is real
All we know is we anymore have fear
Shame, sadness and nervousness
They all have vanished and disappeared

Sweet, sweet love stories
Sweet, sweet love lies
Sweet, oh sweet loneliness
You brought me to life
Oh, you brought me to life...

Fuck, this is way more embarrasing than I had predicted

Don't be embarrassed m'man, at the end of the day songwriting is usually a pretty personal thing, so what's within will come out lol, you wrote it as a song which has a lot of meaning and relevance to you, which is what counts above all else

U2Nick

14 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:Ok, it's a pretty simple love poem/song (I once tried to musicalize it - no success ), it's nothing special, but I feel it might be worth sharing since it included the strong ressembly with the Alex poem or sketch or whatever I hope you like it. It was written the day my girlfriend and I started to go out, lovely 10th of december
It was also one of the few times that I wrote something entirely in English, and later one translated into Spanish. It uses to be the opposite.

(untitled...) - by Sergio Santos - 10th of December, 2008.

None of this feelings are meant to be shared
We're alone in this world, in despair and strange
Are we right, are we wrong?
At least we're alive, like it or not

I was on my own, hiding from the world
Lost in my thoughts, lost in the sky
And telling me sweet lies, whispering kind words
You brought me, brought me back to life

Sweet, sweet love stories
Sweet, sweet love lies
Sweet, oh sweet loneliness
You brought me to life

We went on a love trip around those landscapes
The landscapes we build in our minds
The night we came back she shown to me
The sunset and the birds reflecting on the sea

We don't know if this story is real
All we know is we anymore have fear
Shame, sadness and nervousness
They all have vanished and disappeared

Sweet, sweet love stories
Sweet, sweet love lies
Sweet, oh sweet loneliness
You brought me to life
Oh, you brought me to life...

Fuck, this is way more embarrasing than I had predicted

Sergio, may people cannot write songs in their native language, but you wrote a song in a language that is not your native language. That in itself is quite an achievement.

The lyrics are nice, don't be embarrassed. Be proud of everything that you believe in.

MattG

14 years

Wow, Sergio...truly beautiful...seriously!!!

Macphistfly

14 years

NYC 2006, I bring my naive bag of tracks.
I, I'm rolling on to see that sweeping skyline for the first time.
I know I'm young, but i'll make it mine.

I freeze frame to when I first saw you and we swapped names…
I felt more than passing ships, or passing planes.

You might have lost me in the foyer
but you never left me you should know...

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Give me something delicate, fragile, free.
Give me something beautiful, awkward, bright and clean.
Give me a part of you to own, let me take you home.
Give me something sure, something pure.
Girl in New York.
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Sidewalk dreams of Stanislavsky
Polaroid pictures of you in my head
Thoughts and dreams too sweet too bold
too grand to be left unsaid.

I was too good with words too bad with emotion
Now I've caused myself this grand commotion.
Oh no, Oh no.

All the kids, they were just like us. Wanted to be rich, wanted to be famous.
What I wanted was sanity and inspiration, and oh the amount that you've given me…//so you've become my destination
In All that I do, I've got to find you. Got to find you

I'll turn this music into light to look for you.
Watch how these notes become a searchlight.
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Give me something delicate, fragile, free.
Give me something beautiful, awkward, bright and clean.
Give me a part of you to own, let me take you home.
Give me something sure, something pure.
Girl in New York.
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So many years have passed, they cause me such stress
still I look for the girl in the green and black dress.

She had a flower in her hair, sounded like Gwen Stefani
Prettier than all the girls dressed in Armani

and still for some reason through all the passing seasons
she stays a reason to go on.

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If you're out there and you can hear me,
I just want you, you to be near me so that I can say and do just what I've wanted to.
Give you something great that you deserve

Girl in New York.

New York. New york.

Macphistfly

14 years

Let me know what you think, it's a little poppier than my usual.

MattG

14 years

Thats awesome! The only critique I have at all is the first verse, "felt more like passings ships, passing planes"- perhaps change the second "passing" to something different to not use the same word again right away? But it works regardless, if you don't want to change it- this is something I'd be very excited to hear, and since I know you've got the means and a great GREAT band, I hope I get to someday...

Macphistfly

14 years

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Thats awesome! The only critique I have at all is the first verse, "felt more like passings ships, passing planes"- perhaps change the second "passing" to something different to not use the same word again right away? But it works regardless, if you don't want to change it- this is something I'd be very excited to hear, and since I know you've got the means and a great GREAT band, I hope I get to someday...

You are too kind my friend, hopefully we'll catch a 360 show and a drink next year.

MattG

14 years

Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]

You are too kind my friend, hopefully we'll catch a 360 show and a drink next year.

God, I wish there was an easier way for so many of us to get together. We should all get together and have an "It Might Get Loud" style jam session, for like, an entire week

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