https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:24:18 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56926 Sat, 06 Mar 2004 01:23:07 +0000 register and fill in your info.  As much or as little as you want.  I think the only things that are required are a username and password, but I might be mistaken.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56926 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56925 Sat, 06 Mar 2004 01:10:25 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56925 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56924 Sat, 06 Mar 2004 00:06:36 +0000 you're not suppose to like what i say.

I've been thinking on that ever since you posted it last night.  You're absolutely right.  I think I've been putting too much importance on my own likes & dislikes when I write these comments, and as a result, paying less attention to structure, story, rhyme, meter, etc...  Thanks for the reminder.

-- Scratch
]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56924 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56923 Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:21:02 +0000
You said yesterday that honesty is what makes a song good.  And this song certainly has that.  You did what you meant to do, and it works well on a number of levels.

And while you're stickin' around, why don't you set up a profile, man?]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56923 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56922 Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:59:53 +0000 the point is the more lovingly i talk about him, the more hatefull you read it. and i won't go into my relationship with my dad cuz i'm not asking you to take sides.
i honestly don't care if everybody said it sucked. let that rule not apply to me. i just found it funny that despite over 30 views (which i think is the most of this week.) nobody responded (which i think is the least of this week) ... i'm not saying i'm better than anyone.. but when i read people's stuff here.. it never seems personal.

to quote my hero Morrissey
"any fool can think of words that rhyme.. so sing your life"]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56922 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56921 Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:18:49 +0000
I've been agonizing over this one for 3 days.  I just don't like it.  (Somewhere on this site, Nick says we're not allowed to say it sucks)  Anyway, I don't think it sucks.

I think my problem is that I don't like what you're saying. But since I don't know you or your father, I have no basis for that judgement.  So if I lay that aside, and just look at the song in terms of it's components, I have to say it's pretty good.  Much better than the Wind-up-Bird song.  Yet I liked that one, and not this one.  Go figure.

Anyway, as to the components, the song itself is good. In 4 three-line verses, (very concise ones at that) you build from totally innocuous, to completely hateful. Or perhaps more accurately, from bland to emotionally charged.  That's pretty impressive.  The story is laid out well, it rhymes well, and it just flows.  It's a good song.  I just don't like it.

But other folks probably do.  The traffics been kinda light this week.

Anyways, that's my $0.02.  Use it or trash it as you choose.

-- Scratch]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56921 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56920 Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:56:07 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-56920 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-1770 Tue, 02 Mar 2004 02:54:44 +0000
"my loving father"

we'd play catch out in the backyard.
where you stood 10 feet tall
said i'd play major league baseball

i heard you say i could do anything
and i believed it
i'd believe anything you said

you were the number one
you never yelled at mom
the proof is inside of me
the man i'll grow to be

you never stole thousands of dollars
and said you would repay
only to steal more everyday

wait til you're old and i will take good care
of your dying self
i hope you never go to hell]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-week-18-my-loving-father/#post-1770