Songwriting Project

A few days ago, my voice coach and songwriting teacher gave me a project to work on, so I decided I would post it to my blog for all of you to see!

The project was to write a background story of the three completed songs I have written, so here they are:

Chorus:

I feel like I’ve known you all my life,

but where’ve you been all this time?

So, tell me now in the pouring rain 

even if it’s hard to explain,

you’re everything to me, 

tell me.. what’s this gonna be?

   This song is complicated. And not complicated like the Avril Lavigne hit song “Complicated”… it’s more like being utterly and completely confused about a relationship.  I originally wrote this song being confused about what was going on at the time and why that the person I liked so much had liked me back too then why weren’t we together? This song is about being with someone but not actually “officially” being with them. It was to the point where I just wanted to say “what are WE?” so that’s when I put what I was feeling into music. The song has a good ending when they are together and all of the dreams I had finally came true after all those months we were "just more than friends". And sometimes you realize that great things happen to those who wait and I am the luckiest girl. There’s a hidden message in the lyrics, maybe you’ll figure it out :) [fourtwentyone]


   “Time To Let Go”  isn’t really just another break-up song. To me, it’s about long after a break-up where you still have feelings for that person and you can never seem to let them go no matter how long ago it happened.  Every girl has gone through this and if not, you will. In this song, I wrote about how I would keep going back to that same person that hurt me so many times before. I felt attached and I couldn’t let go after all the times I was hurt, I just couldn’t seem to let go. I know it was time to move on when I wrote this song and it helped putting what I felt into words and music.

   Everyone has a first crush and everyone remembers their first crush. For me, when I had my first crush I wrote a song about him. I guess instead of telling people, that’s how I let it out.  The song I wrote was called “Sometimes”. It’s really just about admiring someone and never having the courage to tell them that you have liked them for so long. In the lyrics, I wrote “Sometimes when I see your face, it’s like I’m in another crowded place and I don’t know who to be around you” which was honestly true to what I was feeling at the time.  This song really makes me think back to the time of innocent first crushes and all my friends love hearing it too!