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Cool double analogy from Randy Weeks Can't Let Go.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group boxboy https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-369099 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-369046 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:50:11 +0000
wake up
break up
make up

Too close to I say a little prayer, but maybe the phrases use alternate meanings:

wake up (get with it)
break up (bad phone reception)
make up (makeup or a post reunion roll in the hay)

Into the Wild song style:
edgy, fractured, sort of off kilter feel like Stan Ridgeway's Big Heat or Drive, She Said.
Strong narrative bent in the verses, nothing abstract, 'facts' from an unreliable narrator.
Bridge: 'Skip trace']]> Sunday Songwriters Group boxboy https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-369046 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-369011 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:59:06 +0000
1 Song sensibility: W R Burnett's Vanity Row (nice title): the 'heavy beauty' of the woman and the incredible description of the young autograph seekers: 'Unawed, raucous, cynical'.

2 Big one that would need work: JK's book Into the Wild.
Crazy kid who tried to cheat chance/death once too often.

Main thing empathy. Chorus maybe:

(Go) Into the Wild, leave your money behind
(Go Into the Wild and lay it all on the line

Secondary themes, hubris and self reinvention*. He gave himself some high falutin' nickname (look up), never seemed to take a word of advice from anyone...

Edit * Maybe the chorus could reinforce the reinvention angle.So,
Go into the wild and leave your shadow behind
or
Go into the wild and leave that old skin behind
(kind of a goofy mental picture, lol, but the idea of molting)

3 'Gravel Running'
Hadn't thought of this in years. DM's great term for, er, drinking and driving on the back roads of our youth]]> Sunday Songwriters Group boxboy https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-369011 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-368994 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:19:16 +0000
Liking it so far! You could also go with using "lush" as a near-rhyme for "double dutch" and see where that takes you.

And the tweet is hilarious!

Peace]]> Sunday Songwriters Group David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-368994 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y9w55-dbh-notes/#post-41756 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:26:51 +0000 I've been half playing along, but figured I'd post now and try to buckle down for the remainder of the week.
To date:

'double dutch' (title or sensibility). already taken by malcolm mclaren, but not his take; go back to the hard percussive slap of the ropes in the schoolyard. driving syncopated beat with short punchy, sing songy lyrics.

Song title: 'lush'
luxury. rich and inviting. (also: 'lush' as a hard drinker; maybe the richness late at night looks a little crooked come morning?)

funny tweet from a texan: we've had over 3 months of 100+ degree weather. wonder what the sun's record is?
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