Well I did the open tuning option - I've done a song based on a photograph (or photographs) twice already for the SSG - I thought there wasn't another one in me. Then I was throwing out some accumulated junk - going through my life and getting rid of the bad parts, if you like. Came across a photograph of myself with the first wife, we'd only been going out for a couple of weeks and the future looked rosy from where I was....that's the trouble with being forever optimistic, reality has a nasty habit of smacking you in the face and clearing away the daydreams....
Ah well, here's a song based on that particular photograph.....
Snapshot
An instant in time - a black-and-white snapshot of younger days,
Faces caught in a kaleidoscope whirl,
A freeze-frame moment in a sepia haze,
Lives preserved in a monochrome world....
A second of eternity - a fleeting glimpse of an endless view,
Two people caught in a fisheye lens,
A nostalgic look at me and you,
Distorted, confused like life was then....
A life forever gone - preserved on film like an amber fly,
Always trapped in a tarnished frame,
Lost in time not knowing why,
Never to come to life again....
A snapshot from the past - a past forever the same,
But I can never right those wrongs,
However much I'd like it to change,
Now we'll never sing that song......
One instant in time - a black-and-white snapshot of younger days,
Faces caught in a kaleidoscope whirl,
A freeze-frame moment in a sepia haze,
Lives preserved in a monochrome world....
I haven't quite finished with the music yet, there's something missing in a couple of places, every chord I've tried there so far just seems to be missing a little something - if I can't come up with something in the morning, I'll post the chords I've got, see if anyone's got any better ideas.
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
that's the trouble with being forever optimistic, reality has a nasty habit of smacking you in the face and clearing away the daydreams....
beautifully put :D (and amen to that)
I like the way the lyrics seem to swirl, too. You get the feeling you're looking at pictures/the past from the inside of a carroussel, wlel, at least I do :D
Especially love these here:
A freeze-frame moment in a sepia haze
preserved on film like an amber fly
Always trapped in a tarnished frame
One tiny thought: in the last verse, I have of course no idea if this would fit your music at all, I can hear it being sung like this "However much I'd like to change it, now we'll never sing that song......", too. It's only a minor change and it wrecks your rhyme scheme, but if you picture it being sung a bit faster... argh.. can't explain.. would have to sing it for you :lol:
So ignore this, please :D
Can't wait to hear it :D
Cheers,
starycat.
"oh, eventually it will break your heart" - anders wendin
Both challenges this week Vic!....?
Great 8)
Wow - I'll never look at pictures the same again! :P
I really like the third verse - 'a life forever gone'
I like how you gave it life - 'Lost in time, not knowing why'
and then took it away - 'never to come to life again'
My only complaint is the use of 'life' so much....
Twice in that verse, and with - 'confused like life', and again (twice more) with - 'Lives preserved'
Photography means - writing with light.... quite literally: capturing light.
Maybe you could use that somehow....?
'snapshots' are moments in time.... so perhaps - a TIME forever gone.... Never to come to life again.
Anyway - Liked it alot :D
Ken
"The man who has begun to live more seriously within
begins to live more simply without"
-Ernest Hemingway
"A genuine individual is an outright nuisance in a factory"
-Orson Welles
