Smashed
Contents
lyrics
twenty-four hours later i was ready to hate her but you needed a minute i could understand violence or a moment of silence but don't drown yourself in it sucking lemons popping sour grapes getting wasted tryin'ta lose the taste you can follow all the rules and lose no one said life is fair love will smash your heart into a million pieces please be careful i won't tell you i told you so she bought and she sold you do- n't need anyone thumbing (their noses) you got smacked up and sent home shotgun shacked up and then some didn't you see it coming? cinnamon gum ten sticks at a time what's the significance of a lime? which needle in the stack was the mistake? and which straw broke the back you saw it break you did the best you could you thought that you could make it but it's over it's all over your face you can follow all the rules and lose no one said life is fair love will smash your heart into a million pieces please be careful
music
chords
intro: F# C# E BM7
verse: F# C# G#7 BM7
prechorus: d# C# B G#7
G#7
chorus: F# C# B E
d# C# B G#7
bridge: g# B F# C#
g# B
bb B F# G#7
E g# A E EM7
B solo verse: B F# C#7 EM7
B solo prechrous: g# F# E C#7
B chorus: B F# E A
g# F# E C#7
B F# E A
g# B/F# bb/F C#7
structure
intro, verse x2, prechorus x2, chorus x2, intro, verse x2, prechorus x2, bridge, B solo verse x2, B solo prechorus, B chorus, chorus x2
notes
another one of those obligatory power pop numbers i am apparently under contract with myself to produce every so often. this was begun ages ago, about the same vintage as The Heartbreak Blinders' Greatest Hits. upon rediscovering it recently, i decided the bridge was good enough to justify finishing the rest of the song. i rewrote a bunch of the lyrics, during the process of which it occured to me that the sentiment behind this song was very similar to a familiar local favorite, so i put in a few fun references. love and apologies to all concerned.
i shoehorned what may be an ill-advised key change into this just because i never have key changes and Sara and i discussed it recently, and i resolved to try it out. a semi-throwaway like this seemed like a low-stakes opportunity to attempt it. i think i was too abrupt about both transitions, but i hear that pacing problems when one's new at something are commonplace.
(upon posting:) i should note that like a year and a half ago, when i was working on this, i played what i had for emily and lixian and they gave it the thumbs down then. i listened to them. i should have kept listening to them. this is what happens when i don't have a band. i spent some embarassing amount of time polishing and polishing this one, and only upon completion of it do i realize that you can't polish a turd to any great effect. i really gilded the hell out of this one:
- "funky" syncopated inversiony bass parts throughout
- my best mike mills backing vox (bridge, esp.)
- stolen will long guitar lick solo
- the long-lost second rack tom!
- keyboards!?
- key change!? worked a little better than i expected.
- lyrical references to a good song
but in the end i feel like it amounts to naught, outside of maybe the bridge. the worst offense is that the chorus isn't any good. you can tell because i keep trying to add parts to it to make it exciting. keyboards? another keyboard? backing vocals? no dice.
anyway, i teased y'all with the page, so now i gotta post it. i'm not proud of the song, but i am proud to be part of the great wikisplosion of '08! whooo!
Gabemcelwain 18:26, 3 March 2008 (PST)
YEAH!
conorl 21:54, 3 March 2008 (EST)
I like the eighthnote chords on the keyboard on the first chorus. I want to listen to this driving on an open road on a sunny summer day, singing along intermittently - which should also be the video.
--Dk 05:20, 4 March 2008 (PST)
