Write me a Lyric
is a personal journey in songwriting. Basically, I’m finally making progress on the guitar, and I’ve felt for a while that there is music locked up inside me. So I’m (slowly) learning to let it out by writing lyrics. At first it’s like pulling teeth to open up. Then it gets frustrating as I can’t make the pen channel my emotions. But gradually, with lots of red ink, I can distill a few pages of stream of consciousness to something that resembles a song.
This tumblog will be a combination of things that inspire me, works in progress, scribbled notebook pages, and eventually, my own songs. Maybe really, really eventually, I’ll even get up the nerve to record a couple.
Thanks for listening.
Wanted
a knock on my door from a pretty girl sopping wet from the rain outside, so I can engulf you with towels and warming embraces. You smell of cigarettes and some cheap perfume, and maybe a hint of red wine. A giver of glimpses of tattoos on your body, for a curious mind to see. I’ll light candles and we can do whatever you want. I’ll run you a warm bath, or maybe this could wait. We could sit up and talk till the sun rises, where I’ll cook a big feast in the morning. Smoke cigarettes between indoors and outdoors. Talk about our dreams at night and plans for travel. Watch some absurd movie while making small talk. I’ll fix us drinks, or maybe even supper. And you’ll be in the next room just being you. Peaceful, yet curious. Beautiful, yet flawed. Simple, yet effective.
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