Until I Find You

February 28, 2014 11:17 AM

Book Challenge Thinger. Based on John Irving's "Until I Find You".

I loved the theme of dragging a child from port to port trying to find an absent father, church organs, tattoos and the quest to find someone.

Lyrics:
The Only Boy In an All Girls School
Jacks mother held his hand and played the fool
His father was a rumor (old church organs)
A man the boy himself would soon become (and north sea mornings)

Show me what it means to be a man
Don’t put me down, don’t drag me around
My father is whisper (old church organs)
A memory of a man i won’t become (and north sea mornings)

Dont let them see you crying

(chorus)
Old Church Organs
And Broken Tattood Hands
Until I Find You





I know, it just kind of ends. I'm not very good at writing full songs.

posted by BlerpityBloop (3 comments total)

Really enjoying this post. Tasteful, restrained songwriting, original & attentive production. Great guitar playing and great feel!

Sounds boomy/peaky in my headphones, in case you would like production feedback.

Otherwise a great start! Hope you finish this one.
posted by CarrotAdventure at 4:42 PM on February 28, 2014


Hey, thanks! I have oodles of these things - all intro verse chorus, and all are about 1:30 long. Writing another verse for the sake of making a 'real' song just seems a bit perfunctory, and I am really miserable at writing lyrics, so I just get an idea down and then move on :-(

As for the production (LogicPro9), I've read countless tutorials and guides for EQ'ing and getting things sounding non-peaky/boomy, but I just can't seem to do it. I absolutely dread the EQ stage, EVERYTHING comes out sounding exactly like this, regardless of how much fiddling I do (and I do a fair amount of fiddling).

My goal is to write a proper song, EQ it perfectly, and then learn mastering...but baby steps :-)
posted by BlerpityBloop at 5:02 PM on February 28, 2014


Great song! The mixing answer you seek is the multipressor. Learn it, and you're halfway there.
posted by TheNegativeInfluence at 10:51 PM on February 28, 2014


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