Difference between revisions of "The pillow to her weight"
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== Lyrics == | == Lyrics == | ||
| + | my love assumes my arm | ||
| + | leaning over on my shoulder | ||
| + | cheeks all flush and warm | ||
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| + | soon her eyes will quake with sleep | ||
| + | and her limbs begin to twinge | ||
| + | involuntarily | ||
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| + | and i am the pillow to her weight | ||
| + | and do my best to breath | ||
| + | so will not wake | ||
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| + | so she dreams and I'm aware | ||
| + | this may be the sweetest thing | ||
| + | that we haven't shared | ||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
===Chords=== | ===Chords=== | ||
| + | |||
| + | verse:<br> | ||
| + | Cm, F, C<br> | ||
| + | Gm, C, Fm<br> | ||
| + | F, Bdim7, C<br> | ||
| + | Fm, B flat7, C<p> | ||
| + | |||
| + | bridge:<br> | ||
| + | G, F, C, Am, D7, G, G7 | ||
===Structure=== | ===Structure=== | ||
| + | verse <br> | ||
| + | verse <br> | ||
| + | bridge <br> | ||
| + | verse | ||
== Songwriter Notes == | == Songwriter Notes == | ||
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| + | I'm quite pleased with the way this tuned out. I wrote the chords and melody a while ago, but didn't take the time to set any words to them until tonight. The Cm, F, C part came first, and for some reason the sound of those chords in sequence really struck me. It sounded like a cadence, but not really, quite unusual, it took me a long time to figure out what could come next. I basically did the same thing but up a fifth for the second line and then just dinked around with some weird cadence things to get the last two lines. I wanted the middle bit to be full of very simple and familiar sounding chords to add a bit of contrast. the words were originally going to be about watching some one depart or leave for someplace, but then that turned into watching someone fall asleep on you. Once I hit upon that I finished up the words in a couple hours. I'd like to improve some of the lines. "the sweetest thing" could be much better. "sweetest" is sort of lame, "thing" is really lame and "sweetest thing" reminds me of that u2 song. actually now that i think about it, this song kind of reminds me of that aerosmith song... [[User:Conorl|Conorl]] 20:44, 15 February 2009 (PST) | ||
Latest revision as of 20:50, 22 February 2009
Lyrics
my love assumes my arm leaning over on my shoulder cheeks all flush and warm soon her eyes will quake with sleep and her limbs begin to twinge involuntarily and i am the pillow to her weight and do my best to breath so will not wake so she dreams and I'm aware this may be the sweetest thing that we haven't shared
Music
Chords
verse:
Cm, F, C
Gm, C, Fm
F, Bdim7, C
Fm, B flat7, C
bridge:
G, F, C, Am, D7, G, G7
Structure
verse
verse
bridge
verse
Songwriter Notes
I'm quite pleased with the way this tuned out. I wrote the chords and melody a while ago, but didn't take the time to set any words to them until tonight. The Cm, F, C part came first, and for some reason the sound of those chords in sequence really struck me. It sounded like a cadence, but not really, quite unusual, it took me a long time to figure out what could come next. I basically did the same thing but up a fifth for the second line and then just dinked around with some weird cadence things to get the last two lines. I wanted the middle bit to be full of very simple and familiar sounding chords to add a bit of contrast. the words were originally going to be about watching some one depart or leave for someplace, but then that turned into watching someone fall asleep on you. Once I hit upon that I finished up the words in a couple hours. I'd like to improve some of the lines. "the sweetest thing" could be much better. "sweetest" is sort of lame, "thing" is really lame and "sweetest thing" reminds me of that u2 song. actually now that i think about it, this song kind of reminds me of that aerosmith song... Conorl 20:44, 15 February 2009 (PST)
