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December Feel Like June (60's sound)


VladM

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Felt your pain, felt your love

I know what you're speaking of

Sunsets bring screaming dreams

Let's talk it over wine

 

Felt the day shake and sway

Hope you never go away

Take a ride, come inside

Either one is fine

 

Take a look, write a book

'Bout the ways that your life shook

Pages bring some relief

so does death it seems

 

Let's make haste to the place

Where some heaven we may taste

The words you write will later

Flicker in my dreams

 

If I'm shy please don't mind

I just haven't had the time

To sort out what feels right

But this feels good to me

 

When the day turns to night

We will count the satellites

And then sneak kisses

Neath the weeping moon

 

In the guise of your eyes

Time will surely stop its flight

Warm my blood til you make

December feel like June

 

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Hey Vlad--

Not sure why no one's reviewed this, seems to have slipped through the cracks. I really like the tumbling, rambling, vibe of the music. It sounds like English may be a second language for you - if so, bravo, these are nice 'sing-able' lyrics.

 

Some wonderful images: The words you write will later / Flicker in my dreams," "When the day turns to night / We will count the satellites"

 

My criticism is that I can't really tell what is going on, so it's hard for me to get invested in either of you (you or the person you are singing to). The lines all sound nice, and they rhyme, but after a while it feel like a series of images without a theme. There's nothing specific for me to hold onto. (Part of that is that there is no structure: no verses, no choruses.)

 

But also...what are you trying to say?

 

Hopefully this helps.

 

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I listened to this a couple days ago and got busy so I wanted to come back. First off, I really like the way you put words together. I agree they should come together to make a unified point, story or point of view, and they don't right now. But your wordsmithing is undeniable. Find your favorite bits and figure out what it is you're saying. Then focus more on that message. You gotta have a point...

 

But you've got something.

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OK here's my idea: take the last 2 stanzas. That's your chorus. Change the music for here, go to the minor VI. Slow down the melody so it's longer, smoother (a real change). Land hard on the last line, make it pop melodically. Then repeat the words "you make December feel like June" at the end to hammer home the title. Insert this chorus throughout the track after every two stanzas. Done.

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Martin's answer is a good one. Not these words, but something like this as an example chorus:

 

No time or place could slow our pace

But winter's chill came too soon

Take off your glove and warm my blood

Until we make December feel like June

 

Nice. I'd find a replacement for "blood" though. Maybe

 

Take off your glove and warm my hand (or cheek) ... or something less ... well, bloody...

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I just took Vlad's original lines and added to them:

Warm my blood til you make

December feel like June

 

Maybe, with a moniker like Vlad, he likes a bit of blood in his lyric...:rolleyes:

 

Regardless - I agree with you - and how about rhyming with 'pace'

 

No time or place could slow our pace

But winter's chill came too soon

Take off your glove and warm my face

'Til we make December feel like June

 

I have a feeling however, that we are shifting from Vlad's tone, and writing more in our kind of tone.

 

 

 

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