https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-yr-6-wk-22-knowin-that-i-need-you-to-save-me/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:27:08 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-yr-6-wk-22-knowin-that-i-need-you-to-save-me/#post-288040 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:15:38 +0000
Agree on the crossroads piece. How about this:

Now I'm standin' at the crossroads
Of somewhere
And nowhere

and consider shaping the coda this way:

Now I'm standin' at the crossroads
Of somewhere
And nowhere

Standin' at the crossroads
Of up
and down yeah

Standin' at the crossroads
Of in
And out yeah

But I'm still no closer
To you

Time to pay the Devil
His due]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CCourtney https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-yr-6-wk-22-knowin-that-i-need-you-to-save-me/#post-288040 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-yr-6-wk-22-knowin-that-i-need-you-to-save-me/#post-287739 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:35:39 +0000
Dunno why you was worried about posting this (all the explanations and forgive-me-in-advances....) it reads fine to me....

Even the line you singled out that you weren't 100% happy with - "Won't ever let me settle down" seems to suit the general mood of the song and seems to follow the previous line OK...

"He got a Hellhound on my trail now
Won't ever let me settle down".............nothing wrong with that, conjures up the image of a man just drifting, can't find peace, as you say, can't settle down.....

The only part I'm not happy with is this.....

"Now I'm standin' at the crossroads
I do believe
I'm sinkin' down now"........

That's just waaaaayy too cliched - maybe turn it around a little?

"I may go back to the crossroads,
get my feet back on the ground...."

Or something similar - up to you, it's your song! For what it's worth, I like this - I could imagine strappin' the Tele on and running through this song and singing it.....and surely that's a sign you're on the right path? Someone else thinks "Hmmmm, wish I'd written this?"

Oh and yeah, you should DEFINITELY try and find more time to write - ain't too many articulate blue-collar philosophers about..............

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-yr-6-wk-22-knowin-that-i-need-you-to-save-me/#post-287739 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-yr-6-wk-22-knowin-that-i-need-you-to-save-me/#post-31156 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:40:01 +0000 Well, this isn't something that I just wrote.... It's actually a few years old.
Hope that's okay....?

Some of you might remember when I first started here at GN and I was askin' questions
about 9th chords.... It was for this song.

It's not terribly original; I certainly wear my influences on my sleeve with this one....
From the Allman Brothers in the first verse, to Robert Johnson in the second/end of third, and a line
influenced by The King of Rock & Roll (Buddy Holly) in the third.
Even the title ~ it's a line from a Neil Young song, lol.

It basically (for the moment) has a droning open E bass with a D6 (I think) and an E9 played over it.

I'll try to put a demo together so you get the idea.

Any suggestions would be welcome ~ especially with the 2nd verse; the 'wont ever let me settle down' line.

Thankx,
Ken
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When I wake up every morning
Just another day with the Blues
Been cast out of the Garden
All for the crime of loving you
Now I'm stuck up on this mountain
and The sky is fallin' down
and there's No lovin' anywhere
In this wilderness....
to be found

When I wake up in the mornin'
There's no one next to me
Ya see I gotta keep movin'
'cause that Devil plays for keeps
He got a Hellhound on my trail now
Won't ever let me settle down
Now I'm standin' at the crossroads
I do believe
I'm sinkin' down now (yeah)

Well, I'm not gittin' up this mornin'
Can't face A World without you
Wishin', Hopin', & a Prayin'
Keep on dreamin' like a fool
She can't take that away from me Lord
Just like I can't make it come true
Now I'm standin' at the crossroads
Time to pay
....the Devil his due]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-yr-6-wk-22-knowin-that-i-need-you-to-save-me/#post-31156