Every Song 34
Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behidn them.
I’ve got three songs I want to play today. I wrote them all within a few days of each other at the start of 2007.
Let’s start with this one. It’s called Trust, written on the 1st of January 2007. The first day of the new year.
070101 Trust
Remember yesterday when we thought we were in loveI’m not surprised that we’ve fallen in and out of it so fastI’m not surprised that we’ve fallen so hard from aboveRight now I’m trying so hard to leave you in the pastBut all I end up doing is painting pictures in my headOf where we could be right now, hope this isn’t really the endDon’t just ignore the fences that we need to mendIt’s so sad, so sad, so sad
Oh I secretly still want you aroundBut I’ve pushed you away nowAnd there’s no turning back nowToo bad that we’ve agreed there’d be no second roundBut it’s alrightI think I was right to let you go
Remember yesterday when different paths were calling our nameWe’ve lost our love, now we will lose everything elseI took the right hand turn, while you walked away to the leftIf you think I’ve said too much then imagine what is left unsaid
Trust, trust baby, I need your trustTrust, trust baby, you don’t have mineI’m sorry, sorry baby, I’ve really triedTo trust, trust you but I’m in denialAnd if we don’t have trust then we don’t have anything elseBut since neither of us is losingThen I’m sure we’ll winEach other’sTrust, trust baby, I’m sure in timeWe’ll be trusting each otherYou and I
The songs in this episode fall under the category of ‘Songs about X’. It was just a few weeks after all that ended. Emotions were still a bit raw. Also, it was the school holidays - over Christmas and New Year’s - so, there was plenty of time for me to endulge my emotions.
And I wanted to keep playing with the same chords and structures a bit to master how to write around them. It helped that the same subject encompassed all three songs. It was a good opportunity to master writing around that key and format and emotion for release.
I refer to that in the lyrics in the bridge of this next song. I always have fun singing this one. It’s called Plain and Simple.
070107 Plain and Simple
It’s not that I don’t careIt’s just that it’s not fairThat you’re moving on before meAt least it’s not that much of a messIt’s not that I’m not over youIt’s just that everytime I hear your newsI imagine her in your armsDid I mean so much less
Once I loved youBut now I’m just missing your kisses and the heatI don’t really hate youI just want to know the truthDid you really/even love meAre you getting any sleepI hope you don’t hate me, make me, do me then break meI’m so much wiser now, weaker, harder to getBut now I’ve got a clueAnd I know just what to do with you
Just before you tell herThat you love her more than the worldPlease remember what you told meJust before I left you that dayAnd just before you seal the dealWith her with a kissPlease remember all the promisesWe’ve made and broken again and again
Now I’m running out of creativityEvery single song sounds the sameEvery topic’s just about you and meEvery chord progression that wayI’m screwing up, writer’s blockTrying so damn hard every dayWhen all I really want to say isI want you backPlain and simpleJust like that
Plain and Simple was written on the 7th of January 2007.
And just a few days after that, I wrote this song called The Time to Think. Same same but different.
070110 The Time To Think
I have had the time to thinkSince we’ve been apartAnd maybe you were right to leaveBut baby from the startCupid struck me in the eyeAnd blinded me for lifeThough I’d always known I’d see the dayThat you and I would say goodbye
And I should have listened to my brotherWhen he saidDon’t go for it if it’s not foreverAnd I should have obeyed my mother and fatherTo never fall in love with a stranger
Now I’m too hurtIt’s a bullet to the brainI’m scarred for lifeAnd I cannot pretendI’ve lost the will to liveWithout you even as a friendI don’t ever wanna see youCause I know I’ll fall in love again
Now I understand if you don’t wannaTalk to me anymore babeI mean, I practically slammed the doorRight in your faceAnd I know how much you hate to show the painBut just for once could you let me knowIf you care
Thank you for listening to episode 34 of Every Song. Until next time.
