May

This is the first one that was mostly computery, so it’s probably noticeably lacking. I really liked the marimba and maybe shouldn't have tried to keep adding crap to it, although I do like the kind of wave of the guitar.  It was inspired by Majical Cloudz love soul a little, they inspire me a lot I guess. I listened to the National on the Song Exploader podcast and at the same time read How Music Works by David Byrne. They both had a method for writing lyrics where they make up nonsense along to the music then go in and try and fit words in and clean it up I tried that with this song first, I have done it a couple of other times since. The Title came from some Twitter friends catchphrase. @Tweets_In_A_Cup

I waited

I wanted all along

what should’ve been yours

I’m sorry

I feel wrong

it seems insecure

When you disappear

I’ll draw your face on my wall

I dream of what we could’ve had

and how I miss you above all

Choices hold me down

I don’t know

it just feels like this darkness oh

over all

You

Over all

I wallowed

I faded

Until night came the same

So Sorry

for all the faults

my mind seems to create

as you dance across the sky

while I listen for your call

I think of what we left behind

and how I miss you above all

Choices hold me down

I don’t know

it just feels like this darkness oh

over all

you

over all

April

This one I wrote while we staying in Portland looking for a house. I was pretty bored and playing acoustic guitar a fair amount. I found the little hook thing, I had recorded it just like 40 seconds in 2009. I was uninspired with other ideas so I tried to fill it out. I was having trouble recording the acoustic and getting it to sound good. I ended up really liking the bass. I don’t know if I have much to say about this one. I like that it’s kinda poppy.

There’s a hole in my heart

In the shape of girl, I once knew

I don’t know what is gone.

But something sure feels lost

I feel like I've got nothing left

You said of course you do

Otherwise you couldn't be in so much pain

There’s a hole in my heart

In the shape of girl, I once knew

I don’t know what is gone.

But something sure feels lost

aint nothing wrong

with that way you felt

It just time passing through your life

She said it looks like paris

if you close your eyes

we laughed, just our voices and ciggeretes

to fill the night

The way she smiled

the closer we got as time passed

felt so alive, I knew it just couldn’t last

What if I coulda touched one more time

before you left

To carve out a life in San Fransico

without me in it

I was drowning in the message that you sent

I felt like I wouldn’t touch the ground again

I felt like I wouldn’t touch the ground again

There’s a hole in my heart

in the shape of girl of a girl i once knew

all my bloods pouring out, I’m feeling real sick

I don’t know what to do.