Heaven Take Me Now

Truth42

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Another 'work in progress'. It's pretty ropey in parts but ready enough, I think, to let others lend a critical ear. This is probably my most ambitious piece of work to date and has taken a long time to get to this state. Makes extensive use of my new Pod 2.0 guitar effects box, with a little bit of e-bow throw in, as well as some fairly clumsy 12-string guitar playing.

The song needs a bassline and some of the parts re-recording. It also needs to be mixed properly (for the umpteenth time!). Hope you like it.

Oh, yes: it's a song about suicide.

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Lyrics

Heaven Take Me Now

Heaven take me now

It's four o'clock in the morning

Or leave me where I am

Who cares if I'm bleeding?

On the frozen ground

I lie and wait for the darkness

The rain runs down my face

Who knows if I'm crying?

For you

For you

For You

It's all for you.

For you

For you

For You

It's all for you.

And now I'm all alone
And cold oh god how I'm freezing
It shouldn't end this way
I hope you'll be waiting

For you

For you

For You

It's all for you.

For you

For you

For You

It's all for you

And all that I know is what I feel

And all that I feel can't be revealed

And all that I am is what I do

And all that I do I do for you

SOLO

Heaven take me now

It's four o'clock in the morning

Or leave me where I am

Who cares if I'm bleeding?

For you

For you

For You

It's all for you

For you

For you

For You

It's all for you

FINISH

Song Stats

Hits: 3032
Comments: 13
Fans: 5
Plays: 413
Downloads: 103
Votes: 26
Uploaded: Jan 14, 2005 - 08:08:01 AM
Last Updated: Feb 03, 2005 - 02:30:36 PM Last Played: Nov 02, 2009 - 07:19:43 AM

Song License

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Song Actions

Hardware:

Powerbook G4; Edirol UA-25 Interface; Pod 2.0; Sound Electronics condenser mic; Fender 12-string guitar; SG electric guitar; Roland PC-300 keyboard;

Software:

Logic Express

Comments

Peter Greenstone

Peter Greenstone said 1776 days ago (January 14th, 2005)

Emotionally powerful
I think you have a really beautiful song in the works here.
You have a great voice and you sing this song with honest
emotion. Reminds me a little of George Michael in the
overall style. It really moved me.

Now for some technical notes:
1. The 12-string is a bit out of tune. (I have one and I
know what a bitch those things can be to tune)
2. The tremelo effect on the other guitar is just a bit too
strong for me. I'd ease it off some.
3. Spread those guitars out a little. They're not filling the
stereo space like I think they should.
4. I like the triangle but it's a little too loud, at least
compared to the rest of the percussion.
5. The song seems a rather long. Maybe if it were to
evelove and build more then that wouldn't be an issue.
Fill in the bottom with cellos, perhaps.

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eleveneyes

eleveneyes said 1776 days ago (January 15th, 2005)

for me?
this song was exactly what I needed tonight.
sadly beautiful. lyrics are perfect and they were sung
perfectly as well. I agree with pgreen - spread the guitars
out. You have lots of layers to work with. intro was a wee
bit long. also, after the first guitar break where you play
that nice melody on the 12 string you should go right
back into another verse. The mixing and editing and all
that stuff is always secondary to me. the hard part is
writing a great song and you've done that all ready!
Thanks!

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chikoppi

chikoppi said 1775 days ago (January 15th, 2005)

Definitely getting there!
Well, I agree with pgreenstone's comments above. You have a really good song here, but the production is getting in the way!

My suggestions might be:
1) tune the 12string, add a super-wide chorus
2) ease off tremolo, compress and reverb that guitar!
3) try kicking that tremolo part to a higher octave at some position?
4) bring up the drums a touch and try to add more variety
5) the vocals just about right - maybe a slight dip in EQ somewhere in the 300-600Hz range?

Looking forward to the next version!

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ilkers	ilkers said 1775 days ago (January 16th, 2005)
	Beautiful! Well well.... The first wow! goes to the vocal performance! I really like the way you sing it. Guitars are good, and I really like the tremolo effect. They make a grabber of a texture for the song. Congratulations! I want to hear more of your songs. Check out my latest song called it rains you in my mind

fairy beth	fairy beth said 1774 days ago (January 16th, 2005)
	good stuff woah. this song has some impact. i love the lead guitar, but i think it could have less tremolo on it. the piano is beautiful. the vocals are pretty much perfect! Check out my latest song called Message No.1 - David Gwynne

Cameron

Cameron said 1774 days ago (January 17th, 2005)

floating vocals
Your vocals are particularly poignant on this tune. Very
well sung!

I agree that spreading out the guitars and bringing down
the triangle might balance things better.

There are a lot of nice moments in this track. The overall
mix needs to be more consistent -- in other words, the
guitar tracks sound kinda dry while the piano has a lot of
reverb. You might want to match up the effects on your
tracks a bit more so the song has a more unified sound.

I like the chord progressions. However, you might want to
get to the chords in the contrasting section a bit sooner
(the part where you sing "And all that I know is what I feel
and all that I feel can't be revealed".) The first section is
kind of long. The whole song needs to be shortened a bit.

You created a contemplative, wistful atmosphere on this
track -- very nice.

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TennesseeVic	TennesseeVic said 1773 days ago (January 17th, 2005)
	Really good song, but.... ....looong Is there a way to get some variety in it? Check out my latest song called Tecmo Superbowl 2009 w/ Dead End (MJRF 2004)

SlimGirlFat	SlimGirlFat said 1764 days ago (January 26th, 2005)
	Wonderful Beautiful piano melody. You have such a great voice Ian. You sing this song so well. I'm not too keen on the tremelo on the guitar either, but other than that, nice production and arrangement. More Please Slimmie Check out my latest song called Not Enough

Iseae

Iseae said 1763 days ago (January 27th, 2005)

Rambeling on
I would have liked the intro guitar to be a little louder, and
the lead to be a little less...what's the word...flangie?
warblie? I would have like to hear you play with the mix
quantity on the vocal reverb...if that makes a bit of sense,
I'm a little sleepy...there are parts where it seems over
done and parts that are perfect. Really pretty song
overall. I really liked the piano bit I don't know how, but it
seems to be coming from behind me which is really
interesting, being I only have the 2 speakers in front of
me. I
would love to know how you got it to do that. My biggest
complaint, that triangle, it made me want to throw things.

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reaganwhite	reaganwhite said 1763 days ago (January 27th, 2005)
	humbled clearly, this has taken a great deal of effort on your part. these songs do. days and days of labor (of love). i can only aspire to produce such a clean sound and your voice sounds.. uh.. freaking awesome. Check out my latest song called The Oogan Invitation

Syncopatient

Syncopatient said 1759 days ago (February 1st, 2005)

Splendid Music
This track is done wonderfully in many ways. The vocals
are gliding through the whole song, like butter. That
piano hook...fabulous, then those beautiful strings. The
tremolo guitar has a nice overall effect to the song and
wouldn't want it gone but I would not over use it
especially there towards the first verse where there isn't as
much instrumentation....just a thought.

If you do remix and do some more with it, let me know,
cause it's going on my IPod today. Great Job!

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thetiler	thetiler said 1758 days ago (February 1st, 2005)
	I like the song Like other's said, the voice is real nice. I like that piano theme alot. With that beat having a bass would add something good as well. Thanks for posting. Check out my latest song called I't Been A While

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 1756 days ago (February 3rd, 2005)

beauty!
Incredibly nice vocals. I wish I had your voice. I really like
this style. I do agree with some of the comments on
technical stuff though. The out of tune 12 string is a real
no-no, the triangle is a little irritating, and the song could
use some editing as it's pretty long. Textures keep
changing throughout so it's not so bad. But there's so
much care and love put into this production, that your
effort has to be lauded only with these little reservations.

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