Comments on: And Now She's Gone

And Now She's Gone

not_on_display — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:54:40 -0800

MeFi Music Challenge, Lyrics Flavor. Toe-tappin' old-timey country happy blues.

The lyrics challenge was great, especially for someone like me who HATES writing lyrics and singing them, but finds them a necessary evil. Recorded over the course of a week, in-betweensies and in many rooms (you can hear my son saying something in the other room at the end of the track) and with a mac and a pc, with shitty earbuds and whatever mic is installed on my laptop. Using Audacity. Please forgive any crap-out on the levels when playing on speakers that are good; I don't have any. Oh, and it's the first recording of my piano! I had much fun putting this together. It's the first multi-track recording (beyond two tracks and not counting sound collage) I've done in a hellishly long time. Thanks, MetaFilter, for inspiring me to get off my ass! (For Jessamyn, by default, since the inspirational lyrics were hers. And also cause she's super awesome.)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:22:37 -0800

Hah! Nice job, n_o_d, nice job!

psst... one of your suggestions is coming right up as one of the July Challenges. Ain't gonna tell you which one, though!

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:02:39 -0800

Great fun, not_on_display. There should be a tag for those times when one has to go through extra loops to post the songs here. For a little while I was recording in a portastudio and to upload the song to the pc I had to burn it in a CD, then plug an external burner to a computer (because the main computer refused to recognize any CD drives for a while) and then take it out thru a USB memory into the main computer. It felt like I would spend more time exporting the song from the studio to the computer than actually playing.

But back to your song, kudos for overcoming the technical difficulties!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:18:57 -0800

Oh yeah, the lyrics, so you can see why I am not chiefly a lyricist. I tend to make up nonsense phrases, and then try to bind them into some sort of meaning by switching this, yanking that, and by the time I'm done, I have something which may lok or sound good to someone else, but always makes me cringe. This time, however, I'm not so displeased, because I went for the simple.

I feel so happy,
I feel so blue.
I want my cake and
To eat it too.

And now she's gone,
So far away.
Yeah, she's gone.
Just called to say

I feel so happy,
I feel so sad.
I lost the best girl
I ever had.

And now she's gone,
She just called to say
That she's gone.
Hey hey!

Well, I know that what you say is true;
You know I'd call you anything but a liar

When you tell me, life is all about conflicting desires.
What else is there left for me to say?

You have your husband,
You have your life.
I have my baby,
I have my wife.

So now you're gone,
So far away.
And now you're gone.
Just called to say

I feel so happy,
I feel so blue.
I had my cake and
I ate it too.

And now she's gone,
She just called to say
That she's gone,
Hey hey!

Well, I know that what you say is true;
You know I'd call you anything but a liar

When you tell me, life is all about conflicting desires.
What else is there left for me to say?

Hey hey!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:26:57 -0800

Nice job getting off your ass there, not_on_display! Well worth it too! Woo hoo!---oops, I mean... Hey Hey!!!!!!