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Scaramouche 10:37 pm UTC 08/22/07 |
| In reply to: | re: 'All these damn memories...........' - Bright_Eyes 09:05 pm UTC 08/22/07 |
| You don't have to have 'songwriting experience' to comment, and I appreciate any critique (good or bad). A song doesn't have to tell a story, and this lyric doesn't tell any 'story', other than someone has lost a love. Did the lover die, walk-out, find someone else? Who knows, it doesn't matter, make your own story up. The lyric is basically describing someone's feelings NOW, how they are continually haunted, and how they wish they were back when the relationship was first starting out. Incidentally, the lyric doesn't describe any type of 'regret', other than maybe 'my body has grown old...', you decide. The final line 'so many regrets...' indicates that some things have happened, but what....? All deliberately vague and yes, you are right, a 'mystery'. > It's hard to describe exactly why a listener does or does > not like a song lyric but I'd honestly have to say I do > not like it at all. > > I'd cancel it completely or shut it down completely j/k > > When I hear it I'm wondering why the lyric does not even > attempt to tell the story of what this guy > regrets/remembers. The line "well there's only one girl > that I will ever love and that was so many years ago" has > more story to it than this whole song. This whole song is > like a mystery. What does he regret? Who knows? > > Instead it devotes many lines to just describing the > feeling of regret in a very abstract way. And in a way > that doesn't have a direction to it, the guy is talking > roughly the same thing in the beginning, middle and end. > In that sense it is high on the ramble-meter. > > I'm aware that there's lots of songs that are about > memories without entirely telling the story of what is > remembered. So there must be a way to write that sort of > thing, but what we've got here just does nothing for me. > > But I of course have no songwriting experience or > expertise and I don't know the lyricist's vision so what I > say does not matter. > > > > | |
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