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Iwishiwasajedi
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6/9/02 3:02pm
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Songs you wrote
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I have a few, and I'll post them a little later, but does anyone else here have songs they wrote?
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Terr_Mys
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6/9/02 3:11pm
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A whole bunch! They're all in midi format (but for some reason the Quicktime plug-in doesn't allow the music to immediately transition into an instrument change...).
Anyway, they can be found on my MIDI website. They're nothing spectacular, but they do have some nice melodies and are a fine example of programmatic music.
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RidingMyCarousel
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RE: Songs you wrote
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This was a poem that became a song a while ago... I pulled out my acoustic guitar and wrote a simple chord progression for it. Anywho... here we are.
A Simple Dream
Such a beautiful place, such a beautiful time,
Sitting here, wishing you were mine.
The purple clouds overhead against the night sky,
All the geese have laid to rest, past time for them to fly.
The crickets chirping, sweetening the night's air,
My soul longing for someone as sweet as you; as fair.
And as the night fades into my soul, I sigh-
-Because I hope to be with someone as sweet as you before I die.
Because I am afraid of the distance we share,
And I fear that we shall never breathe each other's air.
And when it comes to composed music, I have a song called "My Love" I wrote on MIDI format a while back. It's a short and sweet piano piece.
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DarthNut
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6/9/02 3:12pm
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I've never actually written a song.
OK, sure, when I played the piano I would fool around, but they really weren't "songs."
DarthNut,
the nuttiest guy around.
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jedi-mind-trick
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6/9/02 3:16pm
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I have co-written a couple of songs, but only written one on my own. I honestly don't think I have the guts to post that one here, as I have a serious insecurity problem regarding what I write. 
But your poem is lovely James. 
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deltron_zero
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a few songs that i wrote, or at least helped write can be found here
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RidingMyCarousel
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deltron... I got this error...
could not find the requested file: Log_Hog-Log_Hog-Wahka_Wahka__Jellybean_.mp3
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Iwishiwasajedi
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Try it again James. Mine got it fine 
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Iwishiwasajedi
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RE: Songs you wrote
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here's my favorite that I made up.
It's titled Life as we know it
From the day we're born
till the day we die
we all go through something known as life
It hurts you, it helps you
It makes you happy or it makes you sad
It is know everywhere as life
(Chorus)
God gives you it
You use it
What you do with it is your choice
you can be something
or you can be nothing
depending on how you use the thing god gave you called Life
Life can also make you mad
and push you to the edge
it makes you do weird things,
it makes you do normal things,
but what you do next only you can decide
Birth, school, a job and marriage are all stops,
on the train of life yeah,
God gives you it
You use it
What you do with it is your choice
you can be something
or you can be nothing
depending on how you use the thing God gave you called life
And one day, a day decided by God
You will die
Whether it be glorius
or weather it just be the end of a long trail
You will one day come to the last station
on the train of life
God gives you it
You use it
What you do with it is your choice
You can be something
or you can be nothing
Depending on how you use the thing God gave you called life
ohhhhh, yeah!
The thing he gave you called life
you gotta use it
or you can just forget it
yeah, yeah
the thing called life
Life
Life
Life
The thing called Life.
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Radiohead
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6/9/02 6:50pm
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Just wondering: have any of the songwriters in here written like three seperate songs and had no idea how to finish them? Have you ever combined them?
Radiohead's Thom Yorke did that with "Paranoid Android" and John Lennon did it with The Beatles with "Happiness is a Warm Gun." Both were made up of three songs that were combined into one. You can recognize the three seperate elements when you listen to them.
Just an idea if you guys are stuck writing.
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Kerr_Plunk
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great advice Radiohead (and Thom & John)
i always get hung up on lyrics!
also, i think i'm just incredibly picky about what i want my songs to "say"... i want the words to parallel/compliment the music...
i've got a lot of single lines without a home - maybe i'll try combining them to make a collage song
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Radiohead
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6/9/02 8:23pm
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Thanks, Kerr_Plunk!
Also, sometimes gibberish and made-up words can be fun, too. Word play has been a staple in song writing for as long as I can remember. So, lyricists shouldn't be limited in that sense.
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RidingMyCarousel
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6/9/02 9:38pm
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I just wrote this for someone special... she knows who she is.
"Me and You"
If I could hold you close,
I'd be with you,
-- next to you.
And if I could touch your hand,
I'd kiss it gently,
-- and let you see...
That you're the nebulous gem in my universe.
And if I could touch your lips,
I'd kiss them again,
-- and let you win..
My soft and gentle heart ~
And hold you next to me,
-- gaze into your eyes, sparkling.
I'd hold you close to me,
My love you'd see.
And if I could hold you close,
I'd caress your face,
-- and enjoy your lip's sweet taste.
But since I can't hold you close,
Just hearing your voice will do,
-- just me and you.
And... errr... that's a wrap.
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Draith_Starborne
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6/10/02 1:31am
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This is the last song of mine that ended up on an album. it's called Fight. uber-emo-core.
I don't want to lose you
Any more than you want to,
But when it comes down to you
I just don't know what to do.
I don't want to dwell on the fight
We had the other night.
I just want to do what I can do
To make it right.
Don't you understand
That I'm trying to be your man?
I just don't think I can.
I wish I had all the answers
To all of life's mysteries,
But even if I did I'd bet
We'd still have fights like these.
I just can't sit back and let
This whole thing go to waste,
But everything I try
Just blows up right back in my face.
Don't you understand
That I'm trying to be your man?
I just don't think I can.
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Tod
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I have currently one quite challenging project going on (and it's probably just too challenging right now). As some of you may have noticed I like long and complex pieces of music, like Jethro Tull's Thick as a brick or Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans. So I decided to do my own long complex piece of music. I've written most of the lyrics but then I decided I should translate them into english and that proved somewhat difficult since I just can't express all the same things in english that I can in finnish. So that's one problem and the second one is that I'm not very good songwriter yet. And it really isn't easy to write seven different parts of this whole concept and link them together and make it work. And since I have only one acoustic guitar I can't work out some instrumental parts. But I'm in no hurry so maybe I get this work finished someday.
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PeterTutham27
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I've written a LOT of songs, and most of them suck too bad to put up here, but all my writing is always a learning process..
I've done complete instrumentals, and complete a capellas, but I do have some fav. just guitar and voice songs-
here's an old one:
Explor: (spelling intentional)
I have seen the many lands
and spoke the many tongues.
But nothing meets my needs.
What do I do next?
Verse 1
You think you’re near the end
Yet you haven’t even started
For every thing you’ve seen
out there there’s a billion more.
Chorus
Get out and Explor
don’t try to find and it will come
The more you want it the closer it gets
Get up and find more,
it doesn’t just happen to some,
upon your own cliff, it sets.
Verse 2
Pushing through the fog,
you see the bright light.
But to keep it inside you,
you’ll have to let it out.
Try something new,
have it above and beyond,
but for everything you find,
make it yours, and keep it pure.
(chorus)
Bridge
It doesn’t have to be huge, Just something new,
Not something unseen, but something that touches you
you don’t have to see it, but experience it
It’s not what it doesn’t have to be, it’s what it is.
Push through the luscious green,
find the dew dropped valleys.
And every sunbeam shining
will refresh your soul.
Verse 3
See it like your first time, cherish it forever,
but don’t forget the things you’ve seen
as you set out to find all the wonders.
(chorus)
Get out and Explor
don’t try to find and it will come
The more you want it the closer it gets
Get up and find more,
it doesn’t just happen to some,
upon your own cliff, it sets.
And the prize will wait until you claim it as your own.
1. Ex•plor (eks-plór)- v.t. to find all the things never found, and live life to the fullest because of it.
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