Why is it you always write what I'm thinking?

It is very annoying that I've been writing songs since I was about 9 years old [46 years ago!] and not one has ever done anything, I've sent them to recording companies and got a "not what's happening at the moment, keep trying" reply. after a while you just give up. Having said that, it's great to get support from like minded people like your-self and the others on this site. So lets keep plugging maybe one day....

Great words, I couldnt quite make out the tune though, that's not you that's me, I'm useless like that

keep the faith

regards
Phill

Hi Scrimmy.

Thanks I needed a laugh before going in to work. I particularly liked the part in the middle where you stop and turn the page!!!

It's spot on to the Friday nights I remember when I used to go out for a pint, now unfrotunately work has put a stop to that.

Any way great song full of truth and humour, and good singing too

regards Phill

Thank you Helena, always nice to hear from you, yes we are getting the same weather in Wales, where I am is not quite so bad at the moment, I got woken by a huge [no exaggeration] thunder clap earlier, frightening!

Roger, yes I agree with you. To be honest, I do record every song I write, I just still can't upload them to myspace!!!, I am on the musicians page I think as I got to upload one song, then it told me it had not got there. I can't find that page again, I'm just a dick...

I thought that chord might be some kind of G, maybe with an added 4th? On the other hand it could be a variation of E minor with an added 7th and G note on the bottom string! Any way it's all academic, we should leave the arguments for the people who care about chromatic sequences and things like that. I'm just a strummer who learned to play chords [very loudly] so that I could sing in my bedroom with out people thinking I was crazy!

Thanks again

Phill

I still sing Obladi-Oblada in my set, [I'm a guitar/vocalist doing local pubs and clubs in UK].

The audiences still sing along and dance to it and many others, I do some just to annoy people like;
The Birdies Dance [yeh honest]
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Doo Wah Diddy
and there's more...

But I try to even up the dumb/intelligent balance by playing;
Something Inside So Strong
Drift Away
I Saw Her Standing There  ... a cracking Macca song, I'm sure you'll agree
Wonderful Tonight
etc etc

I wont even go into the lower forms of music like; rap punk or Oasis [lol]

In all honesty, modern music, maybe goes more into the less innocent themes, [not the I love you, you love me..forever and ever stuff of the 50's and 60's], it's more brutal these days, and maybe that's sad in itself, as maybe pop music is committing suicide.
Music for the masses, it may be, but styles and fashions are created and directed by the suits and  producers, whose only interest is making another million on the backs of the young and gullible.

Check out Simon Cowell; eats `em up and spits `em out. In other words, he makes and act, [usually mildly talented] makes them into household names, then before they can ask to actually have a say in their next recording he drops them for another flash in the pan!

Sorry...another sermon, I'd better log off

if your a wannabe...keep trying and ignore the above

Phill

GREAT LYRICS, haven't had a chance to play along with the chord sequence [my lady's sleeping] and very topical.

What is really annoying is that profits come before anything else with governments and industrialists. If only they would take less profits and clean up their emissions, I work in a plant that has copper dust in the air, plus gasses associated with the tinning process, add to that the mineral oils and other chemicals associated with the manufacturing process, I and my workmates breathe this in every day, but it also goes out into the atmosphere!!!
Fact; we all want to feed our families; so we need to work for big bucks, [if we're lucky] and we also want to be independent by having our own means of transport [public transport being so crap in the UK] so therefor we are not too bothered with global warming, etc. And most of us believe it wont really happen, maybe little green men will come and save us all from ourselves at the eleventh hour.
Here's a flash;  they didn't come and save us before the first and second world wars broke out! so whats the chance now?
Any way, we'll probably get wiped out by a giant asteroid like the dinosaurs before that happens, then when the ants and beetles have evolved enough, they can puzzle over what we were, and how we lasted so long.

Now I'm depressed

keep writing you were born for it

Phill

PS I'm not a greenie

my god! how did you know how i felt about my life?
it's just amazing, you've captured my feelings exactly, i've felt like this all my life but never been able to put down in words what i was feeling, so thanks for doing that for me and thanks for writing such an emotive and inspiring song...you're the man

respect

phill

thanks Daddy,
nice to hear from you again, families can be a bit like that, at our wedding reception my family were on one side of the room, and my wifes on the other... very awkward as you can imagine. never mind we survived and my mother actually came round to her in the end.

chill man Phill

Hi Old Doll,

Talking of sunshine, it's been nice here today, but a bitter cold wind..summers coming

Phill

[Would you mind very much if I call you Helena? as your handle? sounds a bit rude}

cool? chillingly cool

phill

hi daddy,

in your dinnertime? you show off

ps, does your boss know?

warm regards
phill