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Original message:520 days 4 hours 51 minutes ago
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i wrote this song a few minutes ago, so please can you tell me what you think of it?
please, if its stupid or rubbish, dont hesitate to say so.


So what are you waiting for?
go get on your dancing shoes
'cause whats a show without the moves?

Its boy meets girl, boy loves girl, but simplified
their beating hearts the metronome to this indifferent night.

Call me a metaphor, I'll tell you a rhyme,
but we better act now because there isn't much time
before our souls they start to implode
and my only regret is that we werent on our own.

thanks guys :D
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Reply:520 days 3 hours 39 minutes ago
Member: loseyourselffx
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i really like it! its totally cool! post a video of it and ill deff watch it
Reply:520 days 3 hours 34 minutes ago
Member: charles
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its need some work but!! i like it because its not the same old crap. so write some more and you will have a great song.
the only other thing i might say is that I would have trouble putting that to music, so if you can, i commend you.
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Reply:519 days 22 hours 32 minutes ago
Member: Emm
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it is FABULAHMAZING! i would listen to it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reply:519 days 7 hours 55 minutes ago
Member: Captain Kelly
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you guyyys *hides red cheeks* thanks :D
to Charles: I probably will have trouble putting it to music, so if i post a video of it when its done will you judge it for me?
and to Emm and loseyourselffx: ehe thanks ^^
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Reply:519 days 6 hours 58 minutes ago
Member: Def
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I like it a lot, except the "souls" line. That particular line sounds a bit banal.
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Reply:519 days 4 hours 9 minutes ago
Member: Captain Kelly
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yeah i know what you mean. i put hearts originally, as i write the sections seperately then 'mix and match', but then realised i used it before. any suggestions for a replacement?
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Reply:518 days 23 hours 27 minutes ago
Member: Ben W
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Considering you wrote that only a few minutes ago, thats completely awesome. Actually thats really good all together.
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Reply:518 days 23 hours 21 minutes ago
Member: charles
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i'll be waiting for the video
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Reply:518 days 20 hours 54 minutes ago
Member: Def
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I'd scrap the line, rather than replace the word. It sounds like something James Blunt would sing. I guess, I'm just trying to say that 'imploding souls' sounds a bit cheesy to me. The rest of it sounds very real, though not descriptive. But, do not get me wrong- not being descriptive has its benefits; it makes it more open to interpretation and all that good stuff. Albeit undescriptive, I still get an image of the singer and the girl, and that works very well. It's just when I get to the imploding souls, the image disappears and I sit back and ask myself, "what the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Overwhelmed souls? Well, I supposed they'd explode. Well, I don't know and I don't care. I just don't like the line. I mean, there's a little bit of ambiguity throughout the whole thing (which I think is good, as I previously alluded to), but that line is so vague and cliche' that I just don't like it. Don't mean to be a wet blanket or none of that, but it's just what I think. For all I know, everyone else might like it.

As for suggestions to put there, I have none. I'm not going to write it for you. Don't take this the wrong way- if I were talking to you, you'd realize that my inflection is neither condescending nor boorish. I just think that this is your baby and I'm sure you'll figure it out.

I do have one other comment. It's kind of short, which again is necessarily bad, but that means one of, or a combination of, three things: 1) You'll repeat verses a lot; 2) It'll be a pretty short song, and/or 3) You'll have to write more. I just wanted to bring that up. I mean, I have a few songs that only last 1 and a half minutes and there's nothing wrong with that, but I thought I'd throw that out there.
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Reply:518 days 20 hours 54 minutes ago
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****correction***

in the third paragraph, I meant to type "which again is NOT necessarily bad"
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Reply:518 days 12 hours 3 minutes ago
Member: Captain Kelly
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OH MY DAISIES if it sounds like james blunt im scrapping the entire song. what about if we take that line out and put instead:

Call me a metaphor, ill tell you a rhyme
but we better act now because there isnt much time
before honesty take a hold
and my only regret is that we werent on our own.

ok, i didnt need to type it all out, but ah well XD
its not very descriptive is it, and without all the euphemisms and evrything you were saying, raw honesty- is that bad?
and you werent wet blankety at all. just... constructively critical? which i appreciate very much.

and as for the length, if i add another stanza or whatever, but repeat it twice, how do we think that might work out?

thanks to everyone ^^
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Reply:518 days 3 hours 15 minutes ago
Member: Def
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Regarding length, I think that would be fine, but I also think it's fine as is. If you can add another quality stanza, go for it. If you think that the lyrics as is says what you want it to say, then leave it.


As for the new line, it's better, yet dismissive. Not only am I clueless as to what you may be alluding to (ambiguous lines are fine if the listener can interpret it in his/her own way or if they're purposely nonsensical), but at least it's not cliche'.
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Reply:518 days 21 minutes ago
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hey i liked the first one better just to let u kno
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Reply:517 days 13 hours 9 minutes ago
Member: Captain Kelly
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Well i think i ought to add another stanza anyway, people arent geting what the songs about wihch is, by the way, how teenage love is based on infatuation, which can go any moment. XD i shall add another stanza, of which should hopefully explain this, but in my 'style' (crap way of explaining) because i think i have one somewhere. thanks for all your help.
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