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I Got Lost

Fell from grace, right through the cracks

Emotionally raw rock song played on a two string guitar
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I lost my way
I lost my path
Lost my bearings
Mislaid the map
Looked for a star
But the night was black
Fell from grace
Right through the cracks


I didn't gain the world
But I lost my soul
Not asking for your pity
Just your hand to hold


I got lost, I got lost
See that face in the mirror?
That isn't me
I got lost, I got lost
Somewhere out there is the person
That I forgot how to be


I gave my all
I bought the shirt
I played the role
Until it hurts
I walked the walk
I towed the line
I stood for truth
And learned to lie


Thought I could save the world
And play a starring role
That dream became so brittle
And much too sharp to hold


I got lost, I got lost...


Pull up the roots
And start again
Tear down these walls
They've been condemned
So many dreams
To feed the fire
Don't waste one tear
For what's left behind


I got lost, I got lost, I got lost

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Day 37:Cuh-Ray-Zee

Things are getting magnadoodle sized odd.

I'm writing like cuh-ray-zee.

Good.

But it means things are going out of the window. Like having time to objectively look at the songs I'm writing and see if they're any good. I've had quite a few low moments in the last few days, even though I think I'm writing some good stuff, getting lots of downloads and positive comments and WRITING MORE SONGS (which was kind of the point).

So yesterday I finished TWO SONGS!!!!!

While You Sleep The World Still Turns Without You - a lullaby for adults (not that it's rude or anything) but just that John Piper said "God gave us sleep to remind us every night that we are not God" - I'm paraphrasing, help me out of you know the quote.

So download that - I guarantee that most of you will be weirded out and disappointed. Some will like it though.

And I also wrote I Got Lost a 2 string emo rock song. A very talented FAWMER Steven Wesley Guiles likened it to post Christian stuff like Pedro the Lion and David Bazan. I'm not post-Christian myself, but I am on a journey to be more emotionally honest in my songwriting so there you go.

I'm putting all FAWM songs on my new download page till I have time to do the coding on the regular one.

SO TODAY

after Church, where numerous people told me

They preferred my version of the notices
or
I've ruined the notices for them forever
or
They wish I would sing the notices
or
They like my song

...I was so discombobulated by everything I had to do that I took two hours to
type up old lyrics,
post on fawm,
update links,
move bits of paper from one folder to a completely different folder

and

write a checklist to help me move bits of paper into different folders more effectively in the future

THEN I...

was shocked and surprised upon going to Shabby Road for an hour that I wrote another song. It's a penitent worship song based on Dan 5:23 (I think) in 3/4 (I'm into 3/4 in a big way recently) in Em and using possibly the most evil sounding chord sequence in the universe Em - Cm.

I hope to record it tomorrow - it's called Wood & Stone.

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Day 34: Roundup

Surprised

Who'd have thought that a song that took just 24 hours to write would be one of my fastest downloaded? If You're Here This Morning may even hit 50 downloads before the end of the day, all off the back of a friend's facebook link.

BTW - I don't have any time to do all the virtual shmoozing I'd normally do, what with having to write another 13 songs an all. Help a guy out. If you like the song or any of the others post a link on FB or tweet it or something (there's buttons on my blog if you click through). Say something like "this song's so awesome I think it just fixed the ozone layer"

Dirty Stop In

I just couldn't face another jaunt to Shabby Road (did I mention my bad leg?), so I wrote at home. One great thing about having a writing place is that you can leave. Then you know you're done. Writing at home you keep putting it off and then when you start writing you keep picking away at it when you should have called it a day. Spent an hour more than I should writing a song called I Got Lost.


Get Back To Where You Once Belonged

Started said song at School. As I was back in the room I picked up a Tatra Classic (the same model as my first guitar) which seemed appropriate. It only had the A and D strings. In the spirit of FAWM's crazy challenges I decided to write a song using only those two strings. I have 2 verses, 2 pre choruses and a weak chorus.

Happy New Year

It's Chinese New Year. Why not celebrate it in the Traditional way by downloading Shang Ding Hong Song


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