I’m not sure if I like this one. I think it’d be MUCH more fulfilling to sing in a padded soundproof room!
My poor neighbors…
Some days I get SICK of myself
and I wanna RUN FROM my own head
Those days I don’t LISTEN too well …Some days I don’t LIKE who I am
and I wanna BE someone else
But I put it ALL on the shelf … and walk… away.CH:
Some days I wanna (scream…)
Some days I wanna (scream…)Some days I won’t CLIMB OUT of my bed
And I wanna CALL a code red
But no one STICKS AROUND to help me out…
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I like this one a lot. Lyrically, I like the rawness and the vulnerability it expresses. Musically, I like it a lot…however, imo the chorus the last time through, would sound pretty rad to rough it up some… add a little rawness to the vocal.
Like the song though alot!
H: Thanks! I TOTALLY agree – I’d love to dirty up the vox a LOOOOOTTTTT. But my neighbors would kill me. I’m whisper-singing every bit of it.
Um, I really like this song. Your picking is great!
hopefully this isn’t a bad connotation, but it has a Melissa Ethridge feel to it.
Though, I know this isn’t great help as far as fixing anything, but I don’t know about your melody on the chorus. I love that Am you used, but I’m not sure the melody is powerful enough, or “raw” enough, or necessarily fits here.
Sorry I’m not as much help as I usually feel I am.
Your voice has an excellent quality to it- it’s warm, the reverb is great. Maybe adding just a bit more bass to your guitar would be helpful. I’m also using crappy headphones, so you could have bass and I just don’t hear it.
Someday I want to tell you I don’t like a song just so you don’t think I’m kissing butt all the time, but I really like this song!
I knew you were holding back, which kind of made the song ironic, but oh my gosh… when you go back to Oregon to record this for real… let ‘er rip! It’ll be one of those songs that you can drive in the car and sing at the top of your lungs on a bad day and then really scream with it at the end. Great release.
GREAT!
Simple. Moving.
Real. I like it.
I would say it’s one of your best so far.
Becca: Like Gitz said, I want to let loose more than I can… But, strange thing about the first few choruses, I’m intentionally “holding back” because the point of the song is that I can’t scream… At least, not until the end. Studio version of this would be MUCH more gritty and intense.
Gitz:
you make me smile again and again.
Russ: heh. Really?!
awesome once again.
raw
Definately Melissa Etheridge.
I could hear a definate a chrous of backup singers when the chorus steps in. (bam!)
It’s raw and real and totally relate-able. I think having a male back-up vocalist, esp. on the last chorus, would rock. You’re so cool.
YES, Heidi!!! Totally a Melissa Etheridge scream is needed here…
Melissa Etheridge… I need to listen to more of her stuff!
Hey Dani!!!
I’m a pretty even-keel kinda guy, so sometimes I’m shocked by ‘heightened emotion’ lyrics and can think it’s all a big act. Which is stupid I know.
I didn’t feel any of that here though – as everyone says, it’s raw/real/vultnerable. I like the irony of not being able to let it out in the recording. If (when) you get to do a pro job on that, I think it needs to cover that full spectrum from the bottled emotion to blowing your head (like you already said to Becca…I’ll shut up now…)
This is me today.
David: Yes yes! Both sides. I totally look forward to singing this one the way it feels…
Marisa: girl. Go scream!
ColoUr me Crazy – but i’m (still) detecting a common ‘theme’ here.
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I’m working on it…I need a drive.
By the way, that was my way of saying I love the song. I heard it the way it would be sung if you weren’t being cautious of your neighbors. Love it.
this is totally an early ’90s 10,000 maniacs vibe. nice.
I like this alot. It describes how I feel sometimes.
Next listen – in parts this reminds me of Kristen Hersh. I like that
I think frustrations are best dealt with if they are vented, in the RIGHT place and in the RIGHT time. Usually NOT in the face of the one frustrating us…. NOT at all… Hold it in long enough to get to place where we can deal with the crap on the inside without spewing it all over everyone else! HA!
A solo drive works best.
Or I just go into hyper-cleaning mode like a mad-woman and somehow feel better.
I agree. Management is so important.
Cleaning is a marvelous cathartic tool. Two birds with one stone!
Maybe I should clean instead of waiting until tomorrow for my drive. Holding it in for 2 days might be a little too long.
did anybody ever tell you that you sound like jennifer knapp?
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG!! Seriously describes how I feel today! Great. Great. Great.
I really, REALLY like the words in this song. And I’d LOVE to hear you sing it without the neighbors around!