Here are some lyrics I've written over the last year for the album I'm making with a friend.
It's been an interesting experience and there's been lots of version of the following verses. At the start, I wasn't really writing any genuine feeling or observations down. It was more just random, abstract sentences that sounded like they could mean something. It took a bit of time to unearth some things that I felt I could turn into meaningful lines.
I'm also always afraid of my lyrics sounding cliche or cheesy. So it was good experience trying to find ways to say things which I'm sure have been sung countless times before, without abstracting them to meaninglessness.
Whatever you think, I'd love to hear any thoughts, feedback, criticisms...
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No Amends
No amends; no mistake A feeling that you couldn't take
Out the door, the rattling glass, I still recall the route I passed
Dragging back, all words let go, solace sought in stereo
So who's the one to blame this time? Take aim I wonder how it could've been
Now you find blank stares Sit stoic, a guest all ears
So who's the one to blame this time? Take aim I wonder how it could've been
So who's the one to blame this time? Take aim Done nothing to reclaim lost time, stand by
And wonder how it could've been
Always I'll Be
I'll sit with you for awhile Speak to me of silhouettes
Come disguised with tinted smiles
Make a shield from what is left
I know it's just your escape
(Chorus) Always I'll be
What you see in me
And I'll lose myself
As someone else
Always you show
Why I'll never go
'Cause I'll lose myself
To someone else
Don't play on my mind I find it
Hard to resist the daydream
Spilt insides on fairground rides
It's not like it was before
Why am I only the one When everything has come undone?
Take your problems x4
(Chorus) (Middle 16)
(Chorus)
Mirror
Look through the windowpane A mirror in a half-sleep
Between fields and rain
Can't help but meet your stare
Among the empty seats
You pin me there
Mistook your look from afar
In kind behind the glass
What are you trying to say?
I get that your lost
All tracks lead this way
Mistook your look from afar In kind behind the glass
Train draws in
You're fading
I don't like
What you've shown
Look through the windowpane
A mirror in a half-sleep
Between fields and rain
Mistook your look from afar
In kind behind the glass
Second Hand
Take their Words
Blend and blur
So
They're
Mine to keep
My ticket
All in Vein
Act and feign
Can't
Speak
Practiced lines
Cracked this time
(Chorus) Second hand
Others make who I am
Short sell self
I take no stand
Who will See
Them and me
Aren't
All
We appear
It's all clear
(Chorus)
Do you believe that I have anything worth saying? I don't need to speak up, the silence means just about as much
Pretend x4
(Chorus)