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Doug Davis - Say It, Anyway

from Round 8, Week 11 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This week, I didn't have any particular inspiration, so I decided to work on something I've been meaning to work on, which is to concentrate on trying to work with more interesting and harmonically rich chord progressions. So I worked out an idea, wrote melodies and lyrics, and was pretty satisfied with what came out to be a fairly Wilco-esque song.

Until I realized that I had totally ripped off one of my earlier MM3AM songs. I can't ever recall having made it farther into the writing process before realizing I was recycling an idea.

So I started all over again. This time what I came up with was probably slightly more interesting, musically, beginning with a V9-I9-III7-IVmaj7 progression, but truthfully, I'm not terribly happy with the dreamy bit of easy listening it turned into. Fairly nice chorus, though.

Oh, and for the record, when I brought the original song in to MBG a few months ago - the one that I ripped off this week - I didn't really think it fit our Americana-ish style, but Jerry kept assuring me that it sounded Wilco-esque. I didn't buy it. Joke's on me.

lyrics

one more time
I'm just trying
to say my lines
thinking about anything but dying
I make white bright noise
shake that void
where the backroom boys
got nothing to say
but they'll say it anyway

don't you walk away
it's only shadow play
say it, anyway

static

one more time
I'm just trying
to say my lines
thinking about anything but dying
I make white bright noise
shake that void
where the backroom boys
got nothing to say
but they'll say it anyway

drink the sweet decay
words can't make you stay
say it, anyway

static

one more time
I'm just trying
to say my lines
thinking about anything but dying
I make white bright noise
shake that void
where the backroom boys
got nothing to say
but they'll say it anyway

all is dust and clay
from first to fadeaway
say it, anyway

static

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from Round 8, Week 11, released September 21, 2015

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