WGC Music

I got home tonight to perform a ritualistic cleansing at my place. After finally recovering from being as sick as I have ever been. I sat down to work on two new songs that I wrote. The first being the music for "No Parachute", to which the lyrics can be found on an earlier blog entry. The second is a song called "Hauntingly Familiar", for which I am still working out the lyrics but the music is finished. I also came up with a chorus and bridge section for a third new song I have not been able to get out of my head. The main guitar riff for the verse has been playing in my head for days. It felt great to finally get it out and to have the song structure done. There are several lines written but no real set-in-stone lyrics for it yet. So far the song's working title is "Favorite Pill".

After working on these I took a break, then went back to play. All of a sudden a song I wrote years ago that I had almost but all forgotten about came pouring out of me, lyrics and all. The song is called "No Sale Today". It's a song from my old singer/songwriter days on the streets of Minneapolis, MN. Not long before then I had a major drug overdose that by some miracle, I survived. Once I recovered I took to the streets with my guitar and dove head first into songwriting. Needless to say I still looked like a full blown addict. Everyone with something to push was in my face day after day while I played. So I wrote a song that I would sing as loud as I could to drive them away. That song was "No Sale Today".

After a wonderful re-visitation from "No Sale Today" another old song I wrote came rushing out called "Impaired". I really had forgotten this song but every note, chord & lyric came flooding back. During the time before my overdose I had several relationships end as horribly as you can imagine. I had awoken one morning after the last break up to find myself starring at my own reflection in the mirror. I started singing to my reflection and recorded every word that came out. I then sat down with my guitar and this amazing guitar riff came out of no where that matched the words I had recorded. Literally the song wrote itself to the words I had recorded. My roommates couldn't believe what they heard & came rushing out of their rooms telling me to play it again and again. They along with a few ex-girlfriends all thought they knew who the song was written for. But I kept the truth to myself. The song turned out to be me singing to myself. The song was a warning that if I didn't wake up from what I was doing that no one, including myself, would ever love me.

I am posting the lyrics for both these songs and will be recording both on my solo CD or with our band The Scandal Hounds. I think the boys in the band will really like "Impaired" and I can't wait to hear what they come up with for it. On personal note I would like to ask you, kind reader, to post a comment about this blog or a comment on the lyrics for either song. I know people are reading my lyrics and listening to my songs but none of you have spoken up. Do you like the lyrics, love em' or hate them? Feel free to bash, praise or post indifference. I want to know what you think.