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This is a song I was inspired to write after reading Christa Wolf's "Was bleibt" ('what remains').
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Lyrics
I didn't raise my voice yesterday,
I didn't think I had anything to say,
to make them think, so I'll let it slip away
in my sleep.
Free speech, a sugar pill to make you think
someday your words will make them think
or change their mind, they're on the brink
of sleep
And this speech I can taste,
but the words seem to escape
inside my head.
And I am free to believe
I can be what I want to be
inside my head.
And in school your mind they'll shape
while in the field your back they break
and nothing you say and nothing you take
and nothing you do can stop the ache.
what you feel, what you thought,
the things you were taught aren't real
and what you see is what you find.
if you still feel, you're doing fine.
I didn't think I had anything to say,
to make them think, so I'll let it slip away
in my sleep.
Free speech, a sugar pill to make you think
someday your words will make them think
or change their mind, they're on the brink
of sleep
And this speech I can taste,
but the words seem to escape
inside my head.
And I am free to believe
I can be what I want to be
inside my head.
And in school your mind they'll shape
while in the field your back they break
and nothing you say and nothing you take
and nothing you do can stop the ache.
what you feel, what you thought,
the things you were taught aren't real
and what you see is what you find.
if you still feel, you're doing fine.
rtcooper
The emotive vocal lead is very on point and color. The polyphonic
rhythmic buid out works and spreads the canvas, inviting the haunting
counterpoint vocal interweave. The space, "inside my head" is well
detailed, existentially melancholy or, perhaps, slightly wind-drifted and
elusive. It's all there, but I just can't pull it together.
Reason being, the clipped-sounding rhythmic beat is between me and
the intamacy the song elicits. It blocks the way to fully hearing/
inhabiting the space of the song for me. That said, I Like the Ironic
quality of the effect - I just can't get around it!
I'll download it to Tunes to see if my system can separate it out or
place it in more favorable position to the lyric.
This is a Fine Composition, here, that draws this frustrated complaint.