Despite the fact that this is a short week (heading off for vacation Saturday, and I promised myself I'd take today "off" for my birthday), I felt good about my prospects this week, particularly since - for the second week in a row - I've had an outlet in mind: my Friday Night Music Club "band" for the September performance. I went into this with a general vibe/genre in mind, as well as a singer's voice that I would be writing for.
But it wasn't to be. Inspiration just didn't hit. I know what Mitchell was angling for, but I couldn't find a way to reconcile the assignment with the kind of song I was hoping to write for my FNMC band, and I ended up with something in the middle, and that something was neither here nor there. Ah, well! This is not quite as "throwaway" as some of the other songs I've written this round, but it's still nothing really to work with. At least I can say that I spent part of my birthday working on music ...
lyrics
I heard your voice on
The radio
You're saying everything but
What I need to know
I see the motion
The shadows dance
These ghosts in green are
Gonna put me in a trance
These signs and symbols
This red and blue
They speak some language that I
Wish I never knew
They're flashing, fading
Some kind of code
A circuit closing up and
Down this open road
And all this talk is so cheap
I see those taillights fade
Outside my window pane
I wonder where you've gotta go tonight
I watch the world outside
I catch my breath and hide
Nothing but heartbreak at the speed of light
Up in my room here
Can't hear you shout
These walls of brick keep all the
World's noise out
Ain't misbehaving
I play it clean
I'm watching, waiting
For a sympathetic scene
This broken language
Don't make no sense
The dots and dashes through the
Slats of picket fence
I need you by me
To say my name
This sweet confusion leaves me
Swimming in my shame
And all this talk is so cheap
I see those taillights fade
Outside my window pane
I wonder where you've gotta go tonight
I watch the world outside
I catch my breath and hide
Nothing but heartbreak at the speed of light
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