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just listened to the song and must admit that i like it. wouldn't have crossed my mind to try it on these lyrics, but it does fit them. i guess i've been more in a frank turner, pub singer-songwriter mood :wink: if you feel like picking up the guitar though- go ahead ;-) i got a guitar in my room again (finally), but it's missing two strings :lol: thank you very much for the inspiration, Ken, it's on my list!

glad you got around to battle yourself through this, James, and i'm sorry to have let you wait so long for my reply :D
it could very well function the way you read it, but i actually thought of something else :wink: to me it was two people passing each other on their way home and finding each other attractive but being so pessimistic/prejudiced/tired/whatever that they don't start talking, but simply continue in their different directions. in the chorus bits you see the prejudices/pessimistic prophesies of the future, should they become a couple and as they both are convinced their relationship would eventually fail, it's best not to start one. on the other hand, why not disregard all doubts and experiences and just dive right into it with all its joys and potential tragedies(= having a parade) :)
in the verse thingies, you see who the people are, which experiences they've had (which, in their turn, may have led to them just passing each other by)--> they are (internally, silently) laying out all their cards.
i wanted it to look like it's a break-up, like they talk about each other in the verses, but they don't. they really don't know each other. and if i change that one line i spoke of the reader might be able to follow me, too :wink:
btw, the green person is not at all as adventurous/daring as the blue person thinks and the blue person would not be like that past partner of the green person :wink:

so, all in all, it's about a moment of a potential relationship, a potential desaster that never got to happen.

um... sure need to make it clearer within the lyrics :lol:
hope you could get some order into my ramblings :D

thanks to both of your for your comments!
cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week16/#post-322839 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week16/#post-321851 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:21:09 +0000
To be honest, I clicked here a couple times before and thought....Wow, I just don't have the mental energy to go through this song, but tonight I did...and I enjoyed the journey....I think if I understood it right..... :D

The plot seems to be about a break up...one wants to join the military, the other wants to be a singer/artist...the one thing that do agree on is that they should break up...they decide if they are going to break up, they might as well make a big "TO DO" about it and make it a spectacle for others to see like a parade.....yes/no?

"Parade" might work as a title.

I would enjoy reading your interpretation as well. :D

Thanks for sharing.

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week16/#post-321851 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week16/#post-321739 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:31:40 +0000 "Paradise"
So I was reading your lyrics with that tune still in my head.
It reads pretty well with that tune except for this line,

I've been the second highest priority for years

And only for that reason, . . . I thought of breaking that up into

I've been the second highest priority
for as long as I can remember.

Of course, if you had another tune in mind . . . please feel free to completely disregard this.

KR2]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week16/#post-321739 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week16/#post-35102 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:55:39 +0000
Oh the wind in my face and the it's beginning to snow again

The first night of the weekend
Already sobering up
The enthusiasm of hours ago is
Already wearing off

It's beginning to snow again
Oh, the wind in my face

And, with bitterness of the moment,
I thought to lay all my cards out for you

I've been the second highest priority for years
And I don't care much for mothers
Who tell me I'm picky with food
Besides, if I miss someone I am hardly myself

I've had too many drinks with accomplished liars
To buy that you're out with friends
And just don't like the word love
Also, I'm leaving this city come the spring

And if you're gonna turn to the navy
And if you're gonna die on the Faroes
And if this is not leading anywhere
But to cardboard boxes
Then we might part at once

I wanna play the trumpet, learn Finnish and I don't
Really know my brother at all
Nor do I know what to ask his sweet children
When they stop by, but I love them all the same

I need at least nine hours of sleep and I never
Set foot in an aeroplane,
I think I'm gonna stick with the ground
And leave the air to those who have wings

And if you're gonna turn to the sea
And if you're gonna chase a song
And if this is not leading anywhere
But to one more name in the phone
Then we might part at once

I can't dance if anyone's watching
And dance best on strangers' feet
I refused asylum to a typewriter once
And I'm terrified by a blank page

For the length of a concert
I loved a tambourine man
I lost all my friends in fourth grade
They shut their mouths; I never tried to make them talk again

So, if you're gonna sail along the wind
And if you're gonna die singing
And this can't be leading anywhere
Except to a silent collapse
Then we might part at once
Or we might as well have a parade!

The first night of the weekend
Already sobering up
The enthusiasm of hours ago is
Already wearing off

The snow in our eyes
As I walked past you on my way home from a friend's
And of course we never said any such thing as

If you're gonna turn to the navy
If you're gonna sing on the Faroes
And if this is not leading anywhere
Except to a silent collapse
Then we might as well have a parade.

Dunno if the story comes across if I just leave it like this, so might change "And of course we never said any such things as" into something like "I don't know your name and of course we never said any such thing as"...? Or even make the "you" there a "that girl"... but... maybe it's a boy :wink:
What do you think? Too much rambling? :D

Cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7week16/#post-35102