Feb 2022 rock theatrical-rock novelty songs-about-death
Do we need a NSFL checkbox?
I wrote this yesterday after getting a bit discouraged with another song I was working on that's basically done (but I'm not really happy with some of the lines and I don't know what to do with the arrangement). Also, I usually have at least one point during FAWM where I realize I'm not being playful enough and this isn't supposed to be work (whysoserious.jpg), so then stuff like this happens.
This song exists almost purely to use the word D-E-A-D as the melody in the chorus, and I wrote the rest of it in my head while I went out for a morning run yesterday.
I mean, it was also fun to put it together. It could probably use a little more work in the instrumentation, like maybe some horns near the end, but this is kind of out of my wheelhouse already and I didn't want to overclutter things.
I'll check off the first week challenge, because the second pre-chorus is, well, literal ... :D
A
Well it looks like you died
D A
It’s fine, babe, I died too!
A
You’re as alive as you feel
D A
And right now I feel pretty good
F#m D | E
Never mind what the coroner said!
Chorus
| D E | A D | A | D A/E
D-E-A-D
D-E-A-D
Spells dead
We lived fast and died young
What wonderful time we had!
And leave a beautiful corpse —
Well, two out of three ain’t bad
It’s not so bad losing your head!
Bridge
| F#m |
All the hard nights we went through
| Bm |
All the speeding, the drugs, and the booze
| C#m |
The affronts to decency (and sinning quite frequently)
| D | E
Well, dying’s the biggest taboo!
Babe, we finally made front-page news!
@hsp Feb 2022
Clever as are so many of your songs. You might consider an album of clever stuff.
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
Cool self-referential chord work! Sounds great, and yes, this is supposed to be fun!
@mikeskliar Feb 2022
ha, what a fun idea to play those D E A D chords for this! great idea and put together with style and great fun--- nicely done! the bridge with the background vocals is inspired !
@cloudhopper Feb 2022
very good!
fun song