This is the first thing I've written since FAWM 2020, in which I wrote barely anything at all. It's a song about one of the reasons for that. Listen - it's not going on an actual album, but it'll do as a first shot of cleaning fluid through the old pipes. :)
I used to be able to do this
The words, a rhyme, and a tune
Now I think that all there was to this
Was an unhealthy attachment to gloom
Since you came along and made me happy
My tunes are all major, my words are sappy
And nothing I write has the ring of truth
Cos you are too good to be true, my love
You are too good to be true.
The guitar lies in her coffin
The notepad is gathering dust
I can't seem to write much of nothing
Except the worst kind of fluffy old fluff
Since you came along and made me happy
My tunes are all major, my words are sappy
And nothing I write has the ring of truth
Cos you are too good to be true, my love
You are too good to be true.
@bethdesombre Feb 2022
What a perfect first song of FAWM, and an excellent (love) song more generally. And "you are too good to be true" is sweet and also a creative framing of that sentiment.. (The repetition of it, with "my love" in between is also especially effective.)
@abudabard12514 Feb 2022
Heh, I've dedicated my entire musical life to this concept. That bullshit idea that a song has to be sad or about pain in some way to have any weight. It's always been a sales pitch to keep people at odds with each other. When I started writing happy tunes I reached the truest parts of myself. Hope you find your way here, man. There's cake.
Anyway, the song is well crafted. The performance is good, and the lyric is well written enough that it hit me in a nerve real hard so clearly you found something solid. Good work. Looking forward to the rest of your tunes!
@karlsburg25 Feb 2022
I am a little bit in awe of anyone doing a one take. But clearly you're a pro. This is a brilliant acoustic ditty and your vocal is so full of emtion it works brilliantly with the deep deep lyrics
@eas3637 Feb 2022
"An unhealthy attachment to gloom" - yes!
I can identify with the problem you talk about in this song, and your chorus nails the big idea in such a witty way. Fantastic.
@hazeyjane Feb 2022
Listening to you tonight, singing something new, makes me realise how much I miss you. Your guitar sounds like it cost a million dollars. Your voice, a bit more.
@corinnelucy Feb 2022
YOU DID IT!
I like the repeated line at the end a lot - it made me think of call and response harmonies, a gathering crowd of gospel singers ideally.
It's so good to hear you sing a new thing again.
@pumpkinhead Feb 2022
So brilliant. Summons pretty much how I feel about songwriting. Luckily enough I broke up with my girlfriend around Christmas so that gotta get things going even though I aim to write songs about Peace and Love. I am looking forward to your next major song. Peace
@jtsteam Feb 2022
I like this - I think many of us can relate to the "unhealthy attachment to gloom"...