I’m not sure what I think of this song. It’s really in a style that is far more straight-forward than what I usually write. It’s odd, there’s little things about it that completely put me off the song, but other parts of it that really endear it to me. In essence, it’s a love song to my piano, but the piano part is clichéd and simplistic and really straightforward. Which makes no sense. I think I’ll have to rewrite the piano line completely now that the rest of the song has slotted into place in my head.
The song itself grew from a two line little snippet that I wrote down somewhere and kept with my little scrap pages of lyric fragments. I intended on slotting it into a different song, but one day it just grew and became its own song. I’m fond of it, and I think it’s cute, but it’s oddly out of place when put next to some of the other songs. However, the other two it has been hanging around with, in terms of being written around the same time, are also more simplistic than what I usually write. I’m sure I’ll manage to overcook and overcomplicate them in time, but I’m just gonna go with it for now and see how the songs come out. They definitely have a shape that emerges quite naturally as I work on them, and I tend to ignore the ones that need a beat/percussion/production led development in place of the songs I can go ahead and give shape to on the piano.
This song also has a chord progression that I myself don’t actually like, yet each verse opens with it. I just find it too clichéd and over used, and yet there I am using the very same progression. Even structurally it’s really straightforward. Oh well. It’s definitely a song that is probably completely out of step with music that is being written and released these days, and feels very 70’s piano ballad in some ways to me. But, I’ve kinda come to terms with it, and I do like it for what it is.
Oh, and this one is really a very rough demo, I dunno what’s going on with my rolled tongue on “added it to…” – you’ll hear what I mean. And somehow the piano sounds more muffled than on other demos using the same settings. I think I was forgetting to actually use the pedal. See? crappy piano line in a song that’s written for my piano. And the levels are a bit shaky, and I think I even got a line or two completely wrong. But I’ll do a better retake of it soon.
the comfort of the keys (demo) by misterebby
(lyrics after the jump)
you gave me your keys and told me to stay for a while,
I added it to others I’d gathered over time,
the keys rattle in my pocket
as I turn and say “goodbye”.my fingers know these keys better than my eyes it seems
and they travel them and gather them to chime
the keys thud quietly
as the hammers strike the stringsthere’s comfort in the keys,
there’s comfort in these keys,
that I turn over in my palms
that are my voice when words fail
and emotion silencesthe comfort of the keys – it’s hard to abandon
the comforting keys – are hard to abandon
the comfort of the keys – it’s hard to abandon
the comforting keys – are hard to abandonas I walk along these quays in the early light of dawn
the sun casts silhouettes in the murky morning light
the gulls circle around my head
as I whisper my goodbye.there’s comfort in the keys,
there’s comfort in these keys,
that I turn over in my palms
that are my voice when words fail
and emotion silences
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