Backseat Goodbye | BLOG - Album Progress (day two).

March 5, 2010

The three simple words in the photo below mark the completion of a song that’s been two years in the making.

The song I’m speaking of has been through many changes before finally finding its spot in the final tracklisting of this new record… It started out as an opening line that came to me a couple years ago which simply said, “Goddamn, it’s a great day for a love song…” and ever since I’ve spent literally the longest I’ve ever spent waiting for one song to come to me. I’ve changed the title three times, from “A Big Love”, to “I’m So Alive”, and finally to the final product, “please.illuminate.me”. I had what I thought was going to be the verse, pre-chorus, chorus, and bridge ready for the longest time, but then a few months back I decided the lyrics just weren’t good enough. So, I scrapped the verses, and a couple weeks ago the right verse finally hit me. Fast forward to today, where I re-wrote the end of the bridge, and made an outro for the song. Finally, after much antipication over a song I was very excited for… It’s here. The only thing else I can tell you about the song is that it’s super-upbeat, and it’s very reminicent of something you’d hear off of my old albums… And it will definitely be one of the singles from the new record.

Other than that, I just have four more songs to finish writing before I’m finished with the actual writing of the album. Last night I finished the song that’s going to close out the new record. The song is tentatively titled “Good Ghosts”, and I really think it’s going to be the perfect way to close out this album. I’ll go ahead and share some lyrics from a verse of the song and let you know that somewhere in these lyrics is what I’ve decided to call the new record (extra hint: the title will be 3 words long):

So, this is what it’s come to
Another ten years of guessing
When and where the good years will find me
I drew all over my arms
Words to my favorite songs
When I hate the world, they remind me not to
Sometimes I wonder
Why the hell I think so much
Most the time I’m all that’s in my way

Lastly, I’ll share that I’ve decided I wanted to be creative with my song titles on this album, instead of just naming them obvious things from lyrics in the songs, I want to make them interesting on their own. As an example, I’ll go ahead and tell you that, as of now, the first track on the album will be titled, “Elliott Smith Is Still Alive”.

Keep an eye out over the next couple days here on the blog, because I think I may give a sneak preview of a demo clip from one of the new tracks.

Cheers,
Chad

7:26pm
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