This sessions brief to create a 5 minute piece based on a message in a bottle.
I thought I would be brave and try something a bit different for this. I have been learning to play the guitar over the last few months and I decided to try and write a song. I had written songs before but not for guitar - so this was a bit daunting!
I felt like I really needed to challenge myself, as I felt that the previous tasks had made me become more confident with performing, and the only way I will keep improving is by constantly trying new things and stepping out of my comfort zone - which I definitely did here!
I thought I would be brave and try something a bit different for this. I have been learning to play the guitar over the last few months and I decided to try and write a song. I had written songs before but not for guitar - so this was a bit daunting!
I felt like I really needed to challenge myself, as I felt that the previous tasks had made me become more confident with performing, and the only way I will keep improving is by constantly trying new things and stepping out of my comfort zone - which I definitely did here!
Sea, Love Tricks
She went running down and she
Kept her head down, oh she
Was running on a whim for a dream
It started with his little note
His cry for help his need to dote
He’d left it on a chance upon the water
The journey stared overseas
Pandora’s gift of hope released
A sparkle in a tear in the ocean
In the ocean
Ocean
It went Bobbing, from shore to sea to sand
To find a suitor in another land (x2)
The note it reached a shore afar
Guided by and unknown star
The fate of gods and destiny combined
The glass that lay before her feet
A shiny bottled secret treat
She took it in her hands to bring it home
The top of it was screwed on tight
She tried and tried with all her might
The only way to get inside was to smash it
Was to smash
Smash
She threw the bottle; she smashed it on the ground
In a million Pieces it fell down (x2)
Amongst the shattered pieces green
A letter lay which had a sheen
Of mystery which she could not resist
She took the crumpled note in hand
And as she read she could understand
The crying call which came from man unknown
The words they read just like her thoughts
Identical emotions brought
The two together though they would never meet
Never meet
Not here
She ripped the letter, she cried in solemn sorrow
She held herself and rocked two and fro (x2)
The words she’d read had been a sigh
His final last mortal goodbye
Before he’s took his soul to the water
He’d asked for one upon the land
Someone who’d be able to hand
Themselves willingly to join him in the sea
She has been in captured by
His gentle and sorrowful cry
Her destiny of mort et l’amour would be
Would be
The sea
She kept her head down, she ran towards the shore
She kept her head down t’wards the shore (x2)
She stood and faced the icy blue
She had decided what to do
She waded ‘til the currents took her feet
She plunged her head ‘neath the surface
Using the force of her purpose
She swam out and down as far as she could go
She stopped and waited oh so still
As her chest and lungs began to fill
With the liquid of the Earth, the shining sea
Then she
Saw he
She reached towards him; she knew that he was close
She reached towards him, he was close (x2)
He was close alright but never there
Illusions never do play fair
He’d let her drown alone, wickedly.
Although I was extremely nervous, I think the song went well. The feedback I got was positive and it has given me the incentive to keep playing and writing.
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