This song is pretty much what I had in mind with the "Buy me a ticket" title in SSG5 Week 50. The song gets darker as it progresses to the point where the the first verse could have a different meaning altogether when its sung at the end.
Buy me a Ticket
© Copyright 2007 Paul Brady
I'm going down to that station gonna get myself a ride
I'm going down to that station gonna get myself a ride
Gonna buy me a ticket gonna buy me back some pride
Well we burnt our bridges baby I ain't commin back down this line
We burnt our bridges baby I ain't commin back down this line
I'm burning in the heart babe won't mend for a long long time
<musical bridge>
I'm going to a place babe where I don't have to see you no more
I'm going to a place babe where I don't have to think of you no more
Gonna find me a passage gonna find me an exit kind of door
I'm going down to that station gonna get myself a ride
I'm going down to that station gonna get myself a ride
Gonna buy me a ticket gonna buy me back some pride
I like it. Kind of morbid though, i like the idea of repeating the first verse after you've worked out what the songs about. I could imagine it with a string section, not a blues kind of instument but I thibg it would work as a rythmm
Great lyrics Paul!
The meter is perfect, the storytelling is crystal clear, but for me the real icing on the cake is the double use of 'buy' in the third line, and the double meaning of 'burning' in the second verse.
Bravo!
Hi Paul
Good to see you again. And looking forward to hearing this sometime on your Soundclick page, maybe?
Maybe it's the English major in me (we had to pretend to study something in school, right :wink: ), I had problems with "exit kind of door," but the more I read it and sing it in my head the more I like it. Very cool.
Looking forward to more from you.
Peace
Very stylish, I especially like the 2 uses for burning in the 2nd verse.
Thanks for the feedback,
David, that line is certainly the one I had the most trouble with, for me its the passage phrase thats not quite right, I was trying to get the idea of a passage as in ticket and a passage as in a corridor to somewhere else.
James, the way I want to play it is quite rhythmic for the first two verses in the key of E and then at the bridge to somehow transition to the key of Am, so that the last 2 verses are quite moody. Morbid? yeah I'd agree.
Martin, & Freydoc thanks guys.
cheers
Paul
