So I’m beginning the process of writing songs for my next CD.
You may say, “Wait, why? Didn’t you just put one out this fall?”
And I would say, “Yes I did, but Frank Zappa averaged two albums a year, so I’m not breaking any rules.”
You see the truth is that I have this idea in my head, and I don’t want to wait two years to see it through. I’d rather take action NOW, just like a motivational speaker once told me to do.
I wrote a song this summer that I very much enjoy. It’s called “We All Got Problems”, and it’s about how our current society is totally over medicated. Really, it’s crazy. Every middle-schooler I meet has something “wrong” with them. I think “wrongs” (for the most part) are just a part of someone’s personality, and there’s no need to change it. If a kid is hyper, who cares? Let the kid his life live rather than drugging them into a zombie.
I’ve decided to make “We All Got Problems” the theme and title track of my next album. I have already written three or four songs that fit within this theme, but I need more ideas! They could be made up problems, real problems, marriage problems, any problems. I haven’t lived a long enough life to have too many problems, so I need your wisdom! What would you tell a therapist if you had the opportunity? I’m all ears… consider me Dr. Hawley and drop something in the comment box.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:44 am
Dude I really like that song! I was a bit upset when I didn’t find it on “Steps”.
You should do a song about the fork in the road that many people hit. Do you take the “Ideal” popular life that requires you to climb a ladder to the top of a company and live in a suburb with a wife and two kids, or take the path that seems a bit dimer. The one that accepts alcoholics, pot smokers, and “skrew-ups”. A lot of these people are not skrew-ups at all and decided that the “ideal life” just isn’t for them. This can be a big problem for many college students… too weird? just an idea.
Hope all is well and I’m working on getting a web site going that will have a link to your site, and hopefully stream a song or two of yours so we can get you heard in the Nashville/Murfreesboro area.
Chris
March 4th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
There are quite a few problems you could pick out for inspiration through here. I know they’ve had my mind reeling with lyrics recently, so maybe my life and the life of my brother can help you out a bit.
I’ve got three older brothers. They are all great, but the youngest of the three, Ryne (pronounced like the Rhine River) has definitely always been seen by my parents as th problem child compared to the rest of us. He’s always struggled in school and the lack of enocuragement from my mom especially has lowered his self esteem to the point where he seems to always need a girlfriend, someone he can have around to tell him they care and they love him. When he’s only really hearing it from me in the family, through thick and thin, his actions seem a bit more understandable. But it also makes it so that he doesn’t always think through his actions. Because of this, last summer he had a drunken one night stand with a girl he had just met that night. Mind you, during this time, he did have a girlfriend, and onethat my parents finally liked. This ended their relationship, and brought a baby into the world 9 months later. His son, Kaiden, is adorable and the definition of a cute, easy baby: always smiling, only cries when he’s tired or hungry, and he practically puts himself to sleep. Seriously. But to Ryne, Kaiden is just a reminder of how much unlike the rest of the family he is. So as a spur of the moment decision, he signed up for the Marines (he’ll be going to boot camp April 5th) and got back together with his ex from high school, who is, pardon the french, a complete manipulative bitch. I’m the only one in the family who has allowed grace for the girlfriends my parents hated, because I understood what it was like to be put down by them. But this girl, Jill Kramer, is even on my hit list. She has completely brain washed him to the point where he never speaks to his family, except me, but even though we were always incredibly close, even that is rare now. He never goes and visits his son. And she once told me that even though she knows it’s not good he does either of those things, she is too afraid to lose him to let him go, so she isn’t going to make him do what is right. How f’ed up is that?!
So there’s a boatload of my brother’s problems. And then their relation to me…
This whole thing hasplaced me in the most awkward situation where although my brother wants to talk to me he is afraid to, because he doesn’t want my parents to know what is going on and he knows that they’ll try to get me to tell them anything he’s told me. So he’d rather not put me through that in the first place, and instead has cut off most communication. Also, I’m the only one in the family he still listens too and opinion takes to heart because he knows that I’m not trying to judge, I’m just trying to make sure he’s alright. But if I do try to help him out, give him advice, the chances are that most likely he’ll cut off communication with me as well, and then he’ll only have his psycho girlfriend Jill to talk to… aka not a good idea.
So now, I’m in the strangest situation of all. I’ma freshman in college, dealing with my parents living half way around the world, and dealing with practically being a parent to my older brother right before he goes off the boot camp. It’s confusing as all get out, and I can’t tell you how many times it’s brought me to tears or made me so pissed off I’ve thought about just calling up my parents and bitching them out for seemingly giving up on my brother. He doesn’t need that right now. He needs to know he is loved and cared for by someone other than his psycho ex before he goes to bootcamp and then who knows where the hell he’ll be assigned after that…
Ugh, my life seems so messed up right now.
Hope that gives you some ideas…
Oh and by the way, I seriosuly loved your show up here at Hope. I ended up having to pull an all-nighter to finish the reading for the next day. But it was well worth it. It made my night. So thanks.
-Annalise
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