https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:31:27 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-130955 Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:57:03 +0000
having never heard of conor oberst? vic, you should do something for your education( :wink: ), no seriously, his band Bright Eyes is beyond praise, utterly beautiful music. very recommendable :wink:

poeticsmile, yes i know the song(how could I not) and the line in question is "you should never be embarassed by your trouble with living"... :wink:
your favourite... what?
oh wow, *blushing*... er.. thank you. I don't exactly feel like deserving this, but I'm flattered, thanks :oops:

cheers,
bluenightangel]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-130955 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129564 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:42:29 +0000
The one and only thing I have trouble with (never heard any Conor Oberst, so the references to him are over my head...) is the title...it's a little too obscure for me....

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129564 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129216 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:03:53 +0000 Or you'll have trouble living Which is almost a direct line from one his songs and while I usually wouldn't have noticed but I was listening to "Laura Laurent," when I was reading this and that is the song with that line in it.Though people do come up with similar lines and I am in no one accusing you of biting his lyrics because as you have shown you don't need to do that to make your material good, as you're my favorite lyricist on this board. So once again great job.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group PoeticSmile https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129216 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129164 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:38:46 +0000
poeticsmile, so you know conor? I really do like his work a lot (as I've said countless times) and yes, I guess it shows sometimes. I didn't really try to copy his way of singing(at least not in this song), but I'm not offended when you say it reminds you of him because that's a compliment to me;)

thanks pierson for dropping in:) glad you like the lyrics and I hope you'll be able to listen to it someday and I hope you'll still like it then;)

hey chris, I gotta nod to all the things you said about making the best of life. very true, but hard to do at times.

thanks you everyone for the kind words, I'm happy you like what I wrote (so all that stress was worth for something in the end).
cheers,
bluenightangel]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129164 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129038 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:31:52 +0000
As usual, some great lines and images. It also seemed more shaped than your songs sometimes are, but nothing seemed to have been lost by that. At least to me, it seemed as if something was gained. Perhaps it was the extra discipline imposed by the emphasis on time this week.

I definitely agreed with the sentiments about fearing the unknown, but also reflected that the advice that follows is quite often seen in reverse, and also works the other way round.

"don't think about dying,
Or you'll have trouble living"

I guess it's a bit like the English proverbs "Look before you leap" and "He who hesitates is lost". Both good advice in some situations, but actually also the opposite of each other. :D

I'm thinking about the sayings that go "Live each day as if it were your last" - in other words "do be very aware that you will die. Make the most of your life while you've got it.". I'd often read that advice in the past, but it never really sank in properly until I got old. Having now come uncomfortably close to death three times, I really do try and live my life in the most positive and generous hearted way that I can, on a day by day basis. And it certainly seems to make it richer than if I either get too gloomy, or simply let myself bob along on the general tide of public apathy and mediocrity.

Whoops, waffling again. The song was terrific, and I especially liked the ending that presenting the option that calm and emptiness could be just as chilling to face as being threatened more directly.

Cheers, Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-129038 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-128972 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:06:23 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group pierson https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-128972 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-128962 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:45:10 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group PoeticSmile https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-128962 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-12094 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:47:49 +0000 anyway, after a few drafts that never got finished for lack of time, here it is, even with a quick and dirty (as chris likes to call it) mp3.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandid=261882

live reads evil backwards

”It's only the unknown we fear
When facing both, the future and death”
Well, thank you, but it doesn't lift any weight
“Then don't think about dying,
Or you'll have trouble living”
Brutal honesty, they nailed me here

Now I'm in a lighthouse trying to start a campfire
If I could just see my own hands
Fumbling in the white veil ahead
And what has got me here- advice from the disappeared,
Carved in the clouds' skin
I felt their blood trickling
It was contagious, not an antidote

I'm safe until the wind dies,
They won't conquer these waves
Crushing them one at a time
Maybe there's no boat in like miles or so
And my mind's racing in vain, in-sanity
I can't see anything
If I could I'd weep
Either because they're closing in on me
Or at the sight of a calm and abandoned sea

hope you like it.
cheers,
bluenightangel]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y3week47-live-reads-evil-backwards/#post-12094