Words To My Friend

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This is my latest song and my 3rd (or 4th?) in open C. I'm not sure if it is quite finished. This song is sort of going back to my original Verse-Chorus style except I wanted to add in some extra things that I learned recently like those John Butler-esque percussive acoustic guitar 'slaps' and some tapping for additional melody. I wanted to try something different to add some spice to this song and to try and push the musicality of the song past simply the vocals.

I think I'll talk about the lyrics after I post them.

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Verse 1:
You were never the type to wonder
To be afraid of the future
Before we ever knew it
We'd always find it was too late
"Your hands keep telling lies" we say
"Your head is filled with all these hostile differences"

Pre-Chorus:
You will never know the worst of us
The troubled times that made me stronger
Only self-esteems that twist and turn your arm
To shake the stars out of place
Let's pray that silence won't be heard again

Chorus:
Happy New Year is always 3 weeks late
From a postcard signed 'Dearly Departed'
'Merry Christmas'
I shouldn't have bothered to say how these past 2 months were the biggest waste

Verse 2:
Is someboody listening?
The signal is breaking up again
It's like talking to static
Let's keep writing letters instead

Dear Santa,
All I wanted for Christmas was to be comfortable in my own skin

I know I've been naughty
"Oh, how do you tell?"
Nothing seems to change
Everything stays the same

Chorus

Bridge:
Give me everything
But give me hell
Give me no one
Take something deep from myself

Solo/Instrumental bridge

Chorus

Outro

(END)

The 'friend' I'm talking to/about in this song is actually myself (actually, my past self to be more accurate). This relates to my childhood where I was the 'rich boy' in a poor school. Because of that, I was generally shunned by my peers for a fair bit of my primary school life. Thus, I had this habit of talking to myself which persists to this day (although to a much lesser extent). I was my own best friend for a while and now I use that to reflect on my life.

The song is basically who I am now talking to who I was before (it doesn't matter if it was 5 or 10 years ago, just in the past) and telling my past self that this is who I've become and despite how much I've changed recently and in the long run, there are aspects of myself that I can't change (at least not easily)

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I'll be back. :)

Thank you once again.