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These are songs I wrote myself. I wrote something above each of them describing what they are about. I always like to have some kind of poetic content in the lyrics of my songs.
The first song is called Full of Pain. Living life as an epileptic is not necessarily Full of Pain. It does cause you to go through painful moments as result of injuries caused by seizures and emotional pain from seizures and limitations it puts you through. This is not really about the pain I went through in life because of epilepsy but more the difficulties it brought into my life.
I was in an accident
Driving way too fast
Couldn't stop though
So I let the moment last
The airbag deployed
Tried to stop it
And the car just sped along until destroyed
People my age
Don't live the way I do
They go out drinking
I sit here sober feeling blue
I got my friends
A few with seizures too
We have our fun
It's not the fun most people do
(chorus)
Life with Epilepsy
Is so hard to explain
And just full of pain
Full of pain
In the wrong way
I feel punished deep inside
I've been injured during seizures
See me depressed outside
Sometimes I cried at night
I know I'm innocent
But it seems like punishment
Now after surgery
I have an ache you won't believe
No more epilepsy
No life intrusions for me
I thank my peers and parents
Distant family too
And Camp Wee Kan Tu
It feels like the world is all new
(repeat chorus)
This next song is called In The Daze. There are very few people in my life I show lyrics to before I give them rhythm and I still have gotten many different reactions from non-epileptic people on this one. In the case of non-epileptic people I have gotten a few people thinking it is about getting high as soon as they hear the title. Oh God, what morons. A lot of them couldn't even make sense out of the meaning in the lyrics. All of my fellow epileptics however understood the meaning with no problem at all. It is basically about what it feels like during a seizure. It is best to do this song on an acoustic guitar. No matter what setting you have it on electric guitars ruin the feeling I intended this song to bring. For the rhythm of this song I was influenced by the rhythm Neil Young wrote in one of his songs called Ambulance Blues. The weird thing however is that a lot of people say it has a guitar rhythm similar to what John Lennon would do. I still take it as a compliment.
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Click on the roll of film to see the images from when I performed this song. |
This song is a dedication to a girl I used to have a relationship with. It was a long distance relationship and the emotional difficulty of that made us decide to end the relationship but continue the friendship. When we were in the relationship she once asked me to write a song for her. I put it off for a long time and she was not happy. I think she lost hope of me doing it. Well, I finally got around to writing a song about how I feel about her at heart even though we are just friends now.
I just finished writing the lyrics of this song and am starting to work on the guitar. I hope to finish it soon. I'm still working on it so some lyrics/lyric patterns might change. I'll do my best to keep it up to date.
Well I have some good news. This song is almost done. I have finished writing the rythem for all the verses accept the last and I finished writing the rythem for the chorus. I'm currently thinking of putting a few more repetitions of the chorus in. Other than that all I have to do is rehearse and it will be ready for performance.
Back in the old sunny days
There were hills of beauty where we stayed
We lived in different worlds
But on the balcony
You were so close to me
On the inside were always close
On the outside were so far away
I've been through tough times
You were always there for me
Did I do the same for you
(Chorus)
Oh sweet Jackie
We're far apart
You understand me
That's why we're close at heart
Once we were in love
The whole thing fell apart
It felt like a bad shove
You're always in my dreams
Long distance kills the heart
I feel you next to me
You understand my pains
In ways my parents don't
I feel you right by me
Although you're far away
(Repeat Chorus)
I hope you all liked the recording of me on my guitar at this website. I'm taking a break from song writing for a while but I'm in the process of learning to play lead guitar and folk guitar styles. I hope to apply that to some songs I write in the future. I still would like to hear comments about these songs or just the lyrics so feel free to Email me and share your opinion.
Here arc some websites I use as references when experimenting with what can be done on the guitar.
Guitar Tab Universe. This place is great for finding downloadable guitar tab sheet music.
Chord Find. This is the site I use to find a chord when I need it. There are many like it but this is the one I use.
Blank Sheet Music.Net. This site is not only for guitarists. It has blank versions of any kind of sheet music you are trying to get ahold of and to make things better the do not charge a penny.
Ultimate Guitar. This is a cool Guitar tab website if I ever saw one. If you hold your curser over one of the chord indicators in the song it will show you a image of how to play the chord.
