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Wishing Yesterday by tktran [Email]

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Uploaded: Mar 02, 2005 - 09:23:15 AM
Last Updated: Mar 02, 2005 - 12:55:36 AM
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This song is about interrupted friendships. It was more of a personal challenge to see if I could compose something that was keyboard-centric. This is the first song I've done that didn't involve a lick of guitar. I'll admit I'm not a piano player so I hope it turned out OK.

Lyrics:
As quick as it came it went away
Leaves me here with not much left to say
Now in my darkest hour I stay
Praying for escape

I wish I could take back yesterday
The joyful feelings that it once gave
So many friends lost along the way
I hope their souls are safe

One was searching for true love
Thought he'd found her but she gave up
Couldn't bear the thought of moving along
So took a gun in his hand...now both are gone

One was just out for some fun
Thought he'd found it in the drugs he'd done
Just a little more before crawling to bed
As the sun arose he woke up dead

I'm reaching for heaven
But find that I'm stumbling
Though I keep on searching for a piece of solid ground
Just hope that I make it 'cause I'm tired of faking
Through another day pretending everything's OK

Hardware:
M-Audio Radium 49

Software:
Garageband 2
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Don't you hate it when people say... &mdash 03/02/05 - 02:48:49 PM
... it has lots of potential? But it really has. I like the piano
line and the voice. Really simple and rhythmic with a good
tune and good lyrics. (though the jokey "as the sun arose
he woke up dead" doesn't work for me) I don't like the
other keyboard(s)? It gets in the way. What about another
instrument in there to lift it? Guitar? And "I'm reaching for
heaven..." sounds like a chorus, especially with the
doubled vocal. What about bringing that in earlier? Nice
though.

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Don't you hate it when people say... &mdash 03/14/05 - 09:50:50 PM
Thanks for commenting. I'll re-craft the line about waking up dead...just
couldn't think of a better way to get the point across at the time. I'm gonna
try to revamp the suggested chorus part. The lyrics sorta developed into
reflections (at the start and the end) over a couple of different events. I'll also
try to see if I can introduce different instruments into the song but I was
hoping to make this my first keyboard-centric creation. (Keyboard is
definitely not my strong instrument).

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nice exercise &mdash 09/26/05 - 07:02:47 PM
I think it's really cool that you made an exercise like
this for yourself. So far I had only listened to Window Pain,
and it was clear in that song that the six-string force is strong
within you.

There are elements of this track that I really like, and the keyboard
that you've done is among them. I also like the instrumental melody
that you do between the stanzas. For me it takes the place of a
traditional chorus.

I thought the drum loop was a bit too in-my-left-ear. It would have
been nice for it to have not been so obviously loopy. Anything that
you could do to give it some breaks here and there would be good.

(The one after "Everything's OK" was definately a relief.)

I like your voice. It has character.

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