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A song I wrote and played the instruments. This is one from the archives when I began recording live drums.
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This is the Place
Music and Lyrics by: Sean C. O’Malley © 2003
The schedule I have to keep
Is dragging me down to my knees
The reason that I carry on
The idea seems so far gone
Believed in the things that I said
The words and the songs in your head
I’d promise you roses and wine
I need to know that you’re mine
This is the place
Come on inside
In front of your face
This is the place
Don’t say goodbye…, it’s much too long a word
When hello is straight to the point
My nerves tend to take control
Though my heart seems to stay far behind
This is the place
Come on inside
I’m in front of your face
This is the place
Why’d you have to go and think for yourself
I never heard you crying for help
All the times I was noticing me
I was just the one who was blind to see
That you were saying goodbye…
It’s much too long a word
When hello is straight to the point
My nerves tend to take control
Though my heart seems to stay far behind
Music and Lyrics by: Sean C. O’Malley © 2003
The schedule I have to keep
Is dragging me down to my knees
The reason that I carry on
The idea seems so far gone
Believed in the things that I said
The words and the songs in your head
I’d promise you roses and wine
I need to know that you’re mine
This is the place
Come on inside
In front of your face
This is the place
Don’t say goodbye…, it’s much too long a word
When hello is straight to the point
My nerves tend to take control
Though my heart seems to stay far behind
This is the place
Come on inside
I’m in front of your face
This is the place
Why’d you have to go and think for yourself
I never heard you crying for help
All the times I was noticing me
I was just the one who was blind to see
That you were saying goodbye…
It’s much too long a word
When hello is straight to the point
My nerves tend to take control
Though my heart seems to stay far behind
TobinMueller
The lead up to "Don't say goodbye" is like a slow building surge forming behind a dike, like the first part of a verse waiting for development, then overflowing into a relationship that is suddenly over. Great concept writing. I totally dig the writing, the vocals, guitar, piano and arrangement. The instruments are too severely panned, in my ears, and the snare especially is lost in the hi-mid frequency saturation. The cymbals are kind of too squared off, rhythmically - consider whacking them on the off beats instead of the downbeats, at least on occasion. And consider using a trap instead of tapping the bell, which gets kind of lost.
I'd really like to hear different mixes of this, ones that bring the rhythm guitar into the center more, or splitting one rhythm left and another track of guitar right. Also, as a very minor thing, it seems the snare is slightly off the beat a few times, especially right after the phrase "know that you're mine.
Very nice writings and I love your vocals. Your sense of exhaustion and being pushed forward into loneliness by a force you cannot control is palpable.