Miss America

Drunk dialling America post 9/11 from Nashville. I miss America.

Not really sure about the guitar solo but everything else I came up with was pure Nashville cheese.

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posted by unSane (6 comments total)

Here are the lyrics, FWIW. Related AskMe, which didn't turn out to be that helpful in the end. It turns out cliches are mostly cliches.

MISS AMERICA

I miss bubblegum
Peppermint, California sun
I miss the girl next door
I miss the dress you wore
I miss that Jackie O smile
Seems it's been gone for a while

And it ain't easy,
No it ain't easy
But most of all, most of all
I miss you, Miss America
Oh, I miss you, Miss America

I miss the way you talked
I know your tongue was forked
But I still miss that sweet southern drawl
Telling me about nothing at all

And it ain't easy,
No it ain't easy
But most of all, most of all
I miss you, Miss America
Oh, I miss you, Miss America

I know it was only half-true
I fell in love with a postcard of you
But there was something beautiful and new

I know I was never enough
I know you like to play tough
I know times were never that good
I still miss the things we lost in the flood

And it ain't easy,
No it ain't easy
But most of all, most of all
I miss you, Miss America
Oh, I miss you, Miss America

posted by unSane at 6:56 PM on July 31, 2013

LOVE the ending!

Would be great to hear a little more guitar earlier in the song though... there are those natural gaps between sung lines where a little surge would fit nicely I think :)
posted by greenish at 3:05 AM on August 1, 2013

Yes I think that bendy double stop riff should probably poke up earlier as part of the Tele noodling in the verses.
posted by unSane at 6:21 AM on August 1, 2013

unSane, I really admire the consistency you bring to the metaphorical table with your stuff. Maybe I should actually start a new thread about that general idea. Good work, as always.
posted by dubold at 2:47 AM on August 2, 2013

I think that has a lot to do with the fact that I'm now basically writing for a band, so I'm not likely to write something completely out there. I have to think about what we can play and what we're good and at what seems to work live and so on. There's lots of freedom within that but also some productive constraints. One thing we have definitely learned is that the emotional stuff goes over WAY better than stuff that is clever or cynical, so long as it's honest. So that has made me try to be much more straightforward in the songwriting while still trying to throw at least one curveball in a song.
posted by unSane at 9:45 AM on August 2, 2013

I posted another version of this, re-recorded from scratch with only real instruments. Have a listen.
posted by unSane at 1:08 PM on August 13, 2013