Circles
Lyrics
we chase in circles and i can't tell who is the tail, who has the teeth you are always just around the bend you are always just out of reach let it go and it goes around after you're gone your gravity weighs me down can't let go can't catch my breath the distance stays like you never left we talk in circles like we're under the bell i'd shout round the world if it would turn your head my breathless silence sends you around the bend the silence remains like you never did let it go and it goes around after you're gone you still shut me down can't let go can't catch my breath the silence remains like you never left we move in circles of love and deceit you try to wrap me all around you but i'm quick on my feet and then you're off and i know where you've been because it's all the same circle when you get down to it let it go and it goes around after you're gone you turn my world upsidedown can't let go can't catch my breath the hurt remains like you never left
Music
structure
a-b-a-b-c-a-b-b-b-b
key
c#m (i think?)
Author's Notes
this song is recorded on my trusty dell inspiron 6000 using vegas. i used the demo version of fruityloops to make the drum tracks (there are two). you can't save files in the demo version so i had to play them off fruityloops while recording them in sound forge, which only works for a little while before the computer totally flips out and hoses the recording. so they are pieced together, a little off rhythm in places. i recorded the vocals with a crappy mic into my behringer mixer. the vocals and drums were first, so it's a fluke that it's in c#m, and i'm going to redo them since they are a little off the instruments that were added later. the keyboard is my yamaha console organ, recorded while listening to the drum track in headphones with my camcorder recording in front of the big ol organ speaker. i'm really happy with how hissy this sounds. the bass was recorded last. it was extremely fun to jam along with myself while writing the bass part. i miss being in a band. sigh.
this song is not really about anyone, which is sort of weird for me. usually there is at least some kernel of a one-to-one relationship between people i interact with and the song i write. i like this song, but mostly because it is fun rather than sentimental.
gabe, i changed up the last four choruses just for you. i think they still need more work. sean mahan suggested that the chorus comes too soon. i think he means in general, not just that it's 15 seconds into the song. there should be a little half bar before the chorus? something like that. haven't figured that out yet. it means redoing the drums. so this is a work in progress....
Comments
this song could have been on any of depeche mode's first three albums. which means that it's excellent for so many reasons. i just hear dave gahan singing this. take that as a compliment.
pop structure = gold. give me that refrain fifteen seconds in. hell, yeah. the transition from the refrain back to the verse is a little non-existent, but it totally works. organ solo bridge = yes. also very martin gore. the repeated figure over the last four bars is inspired genius. i'm not entirely sold on the refrain/refrain with more bass notes/let it gooooooo/can't let gooooo/refrain breakdown ending. i think if the arrangment changes were a bit more drastic, you could pull it off. the refrain is short, and the song is short, so it isn't a time issue, it just needs to change sonically if you're going to repeat it so many times in a row.
ALSO: it should be noted that the last line in the refrain of this song gave us the name for this site!
Gabemcelwain 09:04, 5 September 2006 (PDT)
