Sucker Punching Fate
I’ve decided to put my spare energy into writing a song. I’ve got the lyrics and chords down, but I still need to move things around. The progression is simple - it could almost be a country song. But I think the flavor is more alternative (and slightly angry). This kinda of stuff is in my head all the time, but I’ve never been able to do anything with it. I know I’ll never be able to sing it, but I might be able to give it to a band or something.
Not Me
Where did I go wrong
was it just never meant to be
then why are fates so cruel to me
why does my heart lead me this way
why do they head the other way
young girls without a clue
and the heartless women, yeah who knew?
yeah me, yeah me…
(chorus)
I don’t love you
cause you never gave me a chance to
cause you never gave a second glance to
at me, at me…
I don’t want you
cause you don’t want me it’s clear
cause you want somebody else near
not me, not me…
Now I don’t need you
cause you turned away and left me in the dark
cause you walked right by that chance to spark
with me, with me…
(bridge)
I just wanted to let you know
that you gave me a perfect day once
it was the best day of my life
cause you smiled at me
yeah you smiled at me
Why can’t I just forget you
and believe it was never meant to be
then the fates might just ease off me
and then I can go my own way
and tomorrow have a better day
might find someone who understands…
me, yeah me
who understands me…
I don’t love you
cause you never gave me a chance to
cause you never gave a second glance to
at me, at me…
I don’t have you
cause love to you is a foolish game
cause you say that men are all the same
not me, not me…
Now I don’t need you
cause you turned away and left me in the dark
cause you walked right by that chance to spark
with me, with me…
I don’t want to lie to myself
cause the nights are long and cold
cause I’m not the one you want to hold
not me, not me…
(end)
I guess I’ll go find my own way
waiting for another perfect day…
June 7th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Love it. The end is my favorite. It can be a perfect song for guitar.
** It just reminds me a lot of the time I was in college and young ~
June 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Thanks
Yeah, I’m trying to work it out with the piano, but it’s for the electric guitar for sure. Like a rock ballad with a whole bunch of power chords. It could probably work on an acoustic guitar as well. I can hear it in my head, but stuff like the bass and drums elude me as I’m working it out.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:16 am
This is a very sad song .. good but sad .. it could make ten million bucks with the emo crowd for sure …
It reminds me of many times in my life..
June 11th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Emo? I don’t think so… This is a song about empowerment, not shitting in my pants.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Man, ive been trying to write this song for soo long. It would be the only good thing i got from an otherwise annoying situation lol but i cant even get a start or title.
good effort mate
January 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
[...] I’ve been working day and night trying to get this project done at work. However, I did take some time to use some of my Christmas gift cards and purchased the Boss DR-880 “Dr. Rhythm” drum machine. I had an older model that was from the 1990’s (the 550mkII) but it was 8-bit and had no practical way of backing up the patterns. I decided that I needed to upgrade. This sucker has multi-measure patterns, bass patterns, AND a Boss GT-6 guitar processor built-in. It has 500 user patterns and 500 preset patterns, each pattern can be assigned a bass line and guitar effects - all can be linked into songs which can be stored in 80 banks. That’s some pretty powerful stuff. The important part is the bass patterns. I’m currently still writing my song, and I’m trying to work out the chord progressions and beat. This is helping tons. [...]