Feb 2022
I found this track saved to my notes - generally I’ve been screen recording rather than doing the audio record which is built into the app ( beatwave). The app expects you to write loops and then record as you put them together . Obviously on this occasion I did that and just now I was prompted to write a ‘lyric’ to go with. It’d be a spoken word .. here goes
Oh and at first it’s simply about the file being overlooked and then making a point about everything these data having become about the visual self conscious ….
Did this get an airing ?
Or was it unfit for sharing ?
Cause as a bit of noise nothing to see
It couldn’t be
Uploaded
Like the others
Image laden
We are so used to seeing our faces!
Disgraces?
You staring at me -
That smile has been so-
Practised!
Get this side not that
This profile is better!
Get my teeth - yeah just like that
Oh but mind the gap!
Here I frown here I hide
Something about a side
Of me I ought not to be sharing
I want to seem
Well you know
Like all of those
Who get hits
Likes for appealing
Not exactly ‘stealing’
But need not to be too
Out there
In case
Yeah
In case ..
@seanbrennan Mar 2022
Spoken word, eh? I see it, and strangely I know a guy IRL whose voice would be perfect for it, and coincidentally he's a cellist and rapper. But at the same time, I kind of hear a melody in my head for some of these lines. I think that's a strength of the lyrics, that they naturally have a melodic cadence to them.
@dragondreams Feb 2022
I love the rhythm in these words. And I get the message about being visually self-conscious!