Okay, so last week I finally received my long awaited package of gear from Nixon, per our previous arrangement. I contributed music to play the back drop in a short run television spot on Fuel TV. Ordered were 6 items. I received 5, only 2 of which I specified. So now I have a box with 3 items I do not desire. I was thrilled at all. I’m going to have to ship this stuff back. Even still, I love my watch and this black hoodie provides quite the slimming effect.

Moving right along. I was walking this morning thinking about songs I have to work on and this ‘singing’ thing that I honestly should and would be a whole lot better at if I’d started with my vocal training lessons and pratices at the end of last year as I’d planned on. Can’t slouch on this type of thing. I’m way behind on a whole album and a handful of songs because of it. ‘Note to self, get on the ball’. Whatever that means. What ball is it?

I believe that one sign of growth as a writer is the ability to self edit. Editing things that you write in order for them to translate better as far relaying an idea and, or making things sound better. I my case, writing things that I’m actually capable of singing as apossed to creating these twisters for the tongue in the midst of a very simple tune, that should be executed with ease. I have a song that I wrote nearly a year ago, called ‘toothbrush song’. I have the melody down. Cool. But I have an issue with a word or two that trip me up because I just can’t sing them at this point. So I’ve decided to modify. I don’t know how one is supossed to sing the word ‘offer’. It sounds weird. I have enough issues with how I sound already, I don’t need an extra burn. To subsititute, I’m going with, ‘options’ which I believe works well and still makes sense within the content. Well here are the lyrics, tell me what you think.

you bought a toothbrush for me,
told me that i could stay,
who would i be to turn that (offer/option) away
you issued new life to me, new air to breathe
it’s obvious you care for me in a special way

my smiles inside have emerged and now they appear like sun outshine
i hope that i’ll be able to do the same for you somehow
you might just be the catlyst for me to help me change my mind
until then we’ll just live within the moment, forget the time

it’s pretty useless to be, lost in love
it cost it does, wearin your heart on your sleeve
even so patience is key, learnin just to be
surely it’s not just me that shares these thoughts alone

in time you find that its not so hard to attain a stable place
but first you must accept the fact that true love can not be chased
it’s not a game nor is it a play with characters actin on (big) stage
although it may not seem to be as so, controls from your set pace

There’s still some major editing that has to be made. I’ll get to it at some point. I’m happy I still do remember the melody even though I’ve yet to record a scratch vocal for reference…