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GUITARGOD54755
I love music. It's my life. Without it, I'm pretty much nothing. I'm a guitarist, bassist, drummer, singer, songwriter... pretty much the jack of all trades when it comes to music. I've been writing my own songs now for about two and a half years, and now I'm finally starting to get into my groove of really putting out some good songs. Sorry to all of you writers out there, but I've heard a lot of original songs (and I've made a couple myself) that are complete shit. I understand the concept of music. Keeping things in 4-bar phrases, using different time signatures, chord progressions and scales, vocalizing, and (my favorite) harmonizing. I started harmonizing about a year ago along with one of my friends covering some Tenacious D songs. From there, I went to Alice in Chains, System of a Down, and other bands that are big on harmonizing. From there, it went to listening to songs on the radio and hearing all of the notes with in the chords and making my own harmony parts to the songs. And then to putting harmony parts to my own songs. So yeah, you could pretty much say I'm obsessed with music. I have such a diverse taste. I love modern rock (Hinder, Smile Empty Soul) metal (KoRn, SlipKnot) classic (Led Zepplin, AC/DC) 50's (The Coasters, The Turtles) country (Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks) and a whole lot more. I'm not into rap at all and I'm not a big fan of the power pop that's all over the radio today and, if you ask me, pretty much all sounds the same... I'm kind of in a band called CROATOAN and possibly getting a couple others started. One seems like just a cover band to waste some time, but the other one, I'm really excited about. It's more of the modern style and not the grunge that CROATOAN is/was... I don't think CROATOAN is going to be around much longer. I don't know, I don't have the love for that band that I once did. The excitement of playing anything is no longer there. It's like, how can you enjoy it, if you don't like the music that you're playing?? So I come from a pretty messed up family. Dad abandoned us young. Mom left me recently. I'm a 17 year old trying to make it on my own. I'm part of a family in school of dysfunctional teens like myself and without them, I think I'd lose my mind. And we have our mom. She's our band and choir teacher, but she's so much more than that to us. The four of us kids and our mom. It's pretty much one of the only things that can make me happy. And then there's Jemimah. Jemimah Vettrus has been apart of my life now for going onto a month. But if this past month has been any indication of what is yet to come, I've found my soul mate. I don't think I could find one reason to want to leave her. And she couldn't think of one reason to leave me. I'm a senior and she's a freshman. So she's got some time to go before she is let go of forever. But I can wait. She means that much to me that I could wait forever. I always talked about as soon as I graduate, I was gonna go to the west coast, and hopefully never come back. But I don't have a reason to leave anymore. I have everything I've ever wanted, and everything I'll ever need right here. One day, I'm still going to get out of this town, but it's just going to take a little bit longer now, knowing that there's someone special still here, that one day will be going to start a new life with me.....
New Songs Online!!!!
Hey, I finally got the songs on a computer and they are online now. The CROATOAN site has been changed into a solo site of myself, as all of the bands material was just me anyways. So yeah, There's two new songs on the purevolume site and one other song on the CROATOAN myspace site. so check it out.... there's a couple glitches in them, but nothing too horrible. Eventually, i'm going to re-do them all, so until I get that chance......
Recordings
So yeah, I got really bored over this past weekend, so I completed a couple recordings. So I now have "Emily's Song (Acoustic)" "Emily's Song (Full Band)" "Skip" "Alone" "Answers" and "Remember Me" all recorded. Except for the one version of "Emily's Song" it's all acoustics, usually two acoustics and lead vocals and harmonies. But from the people who've heard it, they said it was pretty good. So it's only on cassette right now, but as soon as I get access to a fully functional computer (mine doesn't have sound) I can put my 4 track into the computer to clear up sound difficulties that show up on cassettes. So within the next couple weeks I'll have a six song demo done. holy shit.... wow... yeah, so i'll put a couple of the new songs on the pure volume page for CROATOAN.... so until then....
DJ <3
Two more songs
Alone
You hide behind the face
The put on smiles replace
The complicatons, the despiration of accepting you at all
No one can deny, No one can defy
The so called friends who hope you fail, who pray that you fall
Joy you feel inside
When you finally realize
What you needed was standing there behind you all along
Pain erased by one
Who helped you to become
The better person, The lyricist, Find words yo your song
One day will arive and I'll leave this all behind
Travel down that lonesome road, escape from this home
As long as I'm alive you'll remain on my mind
As long as you remember me you won't be alone
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Where You Belong (Emily's Song)
Trust yourself and do what's right
Don't you give up on this fight
New direction taking flight
Worry us to sleep tonight
Though I know you will be fine
I still can't get you off my mind
I know you'll see better days
But you'll be in our hearts always
Sweet sixteen and all alone
Wandering off to new unknown
Though your stronger on your own
Just know this will always be home
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A couple songs
Answers
Fade away my hero, Leave me here scared
You have so much my hero, that you've never shared
Glad I'll never be, I'll sit alone and cry
Sad I will stay, my superman has died
Looking back to see what had all gone wrong
The kryptonite was brought, my superman is gone
And when I look ahead for another day
I see the pain from my loss slowly fade away
Still I dream at night that you are still around
But wake up the next morning, You're nowhere to be found
It burns my soul inside, though the fault is not mine
Why are there these questions with an answer I can't find
Questions without answers, who can help me find
Find the things I've lost, Find my way again
Now that you are gone I stand here on my own
Ever since the day you left me standing all alone
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Remember Me
Live your life, then fade away
Taken back so fast
Though we're gone, we still live on
We make the memories last
A loss in just a weekend
Has finally got me thinking
What we regret is what we never try
The team of guys, the friends of mine
They'd all be down one man
The girl I love would cry alone
No one to hold her hand
A life without completion
An end without a reason
Going home to family in the sky
Have I been good with my life
Baby know I tried
Let the church bells chime if I run out of time
Would you remember me in a year or two
Cuz nothings left after all we've been though
Lost the second chance, This could be our last slow dance
Where do we go when we die
When it's my time, girl, would you cry
When my life is complete
Remember Me
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*Skip* (From DRH, Jr. to JAV)
Took us so long, we were too blind to see
Saving you from what's been saved from me
Stay with you forever, never be apart
You've taken the needle and sewn up my broken heart
Touch you with my fingertips
When there's nothing I could say
Then I'll slowly kiss your lips
And you'll take the pain away
Looking in your eyes takes away
The troubles and the lies
With the *skip* of a beat
You make me complete
Only one I see when you're standing in a crown
With only a whipser, you say it so loud
No longer needing to keep in my mind
With three little words, you make me so alive
Touch you with my fingertips
When there's nothing I could say
Then I'll slowly kiss your lips
And you'll take the pain away
Looking in your eyes takes away
The troubles and the lies
With the *skip* of a beat
You make me complete
L u V e R * g U r L
wow....yeah im really bored too....i never remember my
password its too confusing but yeah i will have to
check out that song im always thinking of
unicorns...lol..xoxo
posted Oct 23