What follows are three rough recordings of songs I wrote. Looking to record them at some point perhaps fully fleshed out with instrumentation and produced. Vocals are just scratch/ "idea vocals" for now. Only god can judge me. Actually, only two are really new. "58" has been sitting around for a while, but I think it fits with the other two somehow.
Sign of the Times (Love You Forever)
I've been waitin' outside
for 5 hours
just to tell you how I feel
everything feels so unreal
All them jokes that
you played
at the expense of
my whole day
No one's laughin' now but you
You don't seem to know what to do
But I found something walking on the beach
Little piece of something that nobody can reach
glowing white shell, it's a sign of the times
I put it in my pocket and I lost my mind
It said: "I'm gonna love you forever"
I'm gonna love you forever
If you wanna go
well just say so
there's no need to play dumb with me
I'm not gonna go
where I don't wanna go
I guess that's all that you need to see
but I found something walking on the beach
And I guess now, well here we are
you made some excuse about your car
I don't buy it, I don't care
next time I won't be there
***
58
Got a 58 on the TV show
all I got are peppermints with me now
to fight a hangover
and the poison interject that keeps screamin' out
Well I was sober as a judge but I was stutterin'
now I'm on the piss my lips are flutterin'
but it's covering some kind of weird desperation inside
some kinda weird desperation inside, I said:
No more broken promises
No more stupid resolutions
No more puttin' that foot over the brakes
And no more nooses
Now I'm at the desk I'm back again
lookin' for something to give me a smack again
nothin's really there that I can depend on
nothin's really there that I can depend on
No more broken promises
No more New Year's resolutions
I'm takin' my foot off the brakes my friend
Yeah and no more nooses
I'm not sure when you got this idea
that everyone should change and you should stay the same forever
I'm not sure where you got this idea
but it's over now, over now
Starin' at the sky again
today it's blue and I feel okay
I'm not really sure what's happened man
But I put one foot in front of the other and I say:
No more broken promises
No more resolutions
No more puttin' that foot across the brakes
Yeah and no more nooses
No more broken promises
No more stupid resolution
No more puttin' my foot on the brakes
And no more nooses
***
Sidewalks
Shout out to Shibuya
I know you think I'm past my prime
I never made it through ya
and you done shut off your lights
(now who's the fuddy-duddy!?)
Goodbye to Chicago
I was way too ashamed to feel the pulse
wracked with guilt and
Lakeshore was just a ghost
(I couldn't make no money!)
I, I wanted to be there
walkin' the sidewalks
Hello to Hades
I know I can't get home
without givin' at least one more nod
to Rome
(before we burn that bitch down!)
I wanted to be there
walkin' the sidewalks
(Roman roads)
And I, I wanted to be there
walkin' with all my friends
on the road
***
-G
