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April 30, 2007

Song-A-Week: Firestorm

Man I really like this one. I hope you do too. It's got fake drums and everything! I think this is song #17... I THINK. Not sure.

Firestorm
(Copyright 2007 Matthew C Good)

a multiple alarm
fire in a storm
some things never pass
I just count to ten
and take a breath again
the wrong things never pass
the right things never last

The water's taking turns
with the fire as it burns
I don't want you to know
I'm just taking stock
Counting what I got
I don't want you to know
this wreckage in my soul

It's like I forgot how to sing
while i was learning how to live
It's like I forgot how to smile
while I was looking at myself again

Now there's nothing left
but a couple moral debts
There's nothing for me here
I'd fight this if I could
If I thought it'd do some good
There's nothing for me here
Now that you've disappeared

It's like I lost control
It's like I didn't know
We were lost before we started
It's like I wasn't there
As if you didn't care
It's like you broke my heart
Like it wasn't hard

The rain is coming down
It's washin me out
I'm still burning up
My surroundings start to spin
as the dizziness sets in
I think i need to breathe
But I'm crying convulsively

It's like I forgot how to sing
While I was learning how to live
You know we were lost at sea
before we ever started
It's like you shoulda known
i was gonna let you go.

A multiple alarm
fire in a storm
a loose metaphor,
A kind of cold war

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I heard a song by the band Blonde Redhead and I was immediately inspired - reallllllly cool stuff. If I had more time, I'd produce it a bit like that, with really cool ambient guitar swells in the background to give you that slightly weightless overwhelming feeling. Man it was good. I wanted to put guitars and piano in this one, but i ran out of time on the guitars, and i already used my synth thinger for the rhodes, so the piano was out.

oh and i think the ending tag is a direct ripoff of Kamera by wilco. dangit.

Posted by pedalboy at April 30, 2007 1:12 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Oh gosh. You were right. I did like this song. And that sweet, sweet, syrupy surprise when the "it's like I forgot" part first happened... oh man. Nice work.

Posted by: katie knows best at April 30, 2007 1:28 AM

Man, I like this one a lot! I agree with Katie about the "it's like I forgot" part, I think that made the song for me.

Posted by: Kristina at April 30, 2007 7:38 AM

i like this one too. i think it would sound cool with a string quartet on it instead of all the electrics...at least the low one. maybe some piano like you said...just little meebles. i think that my favorite line is "a kind of cold war".

Posted by: John at May 1, 2007 1:12 PM

i like the bass line a lot.

needs some vocal production. maybe go up rather than back down on the end of the line "Now that you've disappeared"

i like the quick double hits on the snare towards the end.

umm, i think another thing to consider is some more instrumentation. even just slight variations in sounds, chord positions, and such. kind of like in "poor places" how they used a bunch of a different "lead" instruments in different sections, like the twelve string at that one part, the chorus or something.

good lyrics, my favorite line is johns.

Posted by: Chase at May 3, 2007 11:09 PM

This is a sweet song. It's catches you immediately. Great job!

Posted by: Sarah at May 9, 2007 9:49 PM

This is a sweet song. It's catches you immediately. Great job!

Posted by: Sarah at May 9, 2007 9:49 PM

reminds me of keane

Posted by: enoch at May 22, 2007 12:30 AM

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April 30, 2007

Song-A-Week: Firestorm