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Creative Endeavors / "The Plague"--lyrics.

« on: April 05, 2006, 05:17:45 pm »

so I finished this song a week or so ago.  Believe me when I say that I really do appreciate criticisms and advice.  Please let me know what you think!
oh this is about my friend who has depression....

The Plague

You caught it like a cold
And now your sadness can't be sold
No price, no happiness will save
The faded soul you gave away
Somehow you've died
But you're alive

Chorus:
You are the prey of days
    that only feed you more dismay
You are the beauty blind
Eternal darkness steals your sight

But like a thief you have conspired
You want the souls you can't desire
Their pearls for your empty chain
The plague just brings you empty pain
Somehow you've died
But you're alive

[chorus]
Bridge:

Now it seems
My empathy
Is gradually becoming
Apathy
I try to say
You have the plague
But you persist to
Waste away

congratulations! you've reached the end of the song!

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Introduce Yourself / I'm "New!"

« on: April 03, 2006, 10:43:37 am »

So...I put the 'new' in quotes because I've been a fan for four years. Don't ask why I haven't joined the boards until now because I'm going to tell you right here. The fact is I'm just lazy, and clearly I can procrastinate for 4 years and still manage to join the boards. I've been reading them periodically anyway...I've just been hiding. Proof: I remember back in 2002 when this nh site was in its baby stages and there used to be an intro to the site with "A Thousand Miles" playing in the background. so there. I'm a half-newbie.

Other than that, hello, my name's tim, and I haven't listened to vanessa in 0 days. "Hi Tim, welcome." (see, little things go on in my head and I type them out like that and they probably don't make any sense to you.) So I'm 18, currently homeless (but hopefully this will change soon), I work at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Denver, where I feel like expendable labor because I AM expendable labor.  But I like money. Ummm...I'm going to college soon, but I'm probably staying in state unless NYU accepted me. and then I'm outta he-ah.

Umm... Vanessa is my favorite band above all others. then I absolutely love Fiona Apple and am moderately obsessed with the Low Millions.  I like Ben Folds and Beethoven too. Beethoven's kinda random there but it's because I took classical piano lessons for 11 years and I've been writing my own songs (voice too) for about a year now.  I'm kinda obsessed with writing music. Probably because I'm so bewildered as to how I can love one of my own songs once it's written, but after a week or two, I begin hating it. And that I think is why I keep writing one after the next. I want to write a song I can always play for myself and be satisfied.

But enough of me! I'm rambling. I hope I get to know some of you on these boards.  I think I come across overly opinionated on message boards and what have you, but I'll try my best not to piss any of you off or, on the flip side, be pissed off by any of you.

Oh and keep in me mind for your street team. I'm on the street team for the Low Millions (all like 5 of us) so I have experience!  and I know all the hot spots in denver/boulder.

OH one more thing! My favorite of V's songs is White Houses, even though I really do love every single one of her songs, even the B-sides.  I'm really looking forward to the new album, I think "All Is Well" would be an awesome title because it'd be fancifully ironic.

Crap! Too bad I typed too much, now no one's going to bother reading it.