Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Collaborations

I've done a few bits for a lad I met on musofinder a while back, kept saying I'd stick a link up for them and never did..

Well, for the most recent I only managed to send the lyrics through because of various technical difficulties with home recording, he's a resourceful type though and from this:

I thought you were my heartbeat
the rock I stood upon
but you were just a resting ground and now I'm moving on

The signs were in the open
but my heart had blinded me
I lied to myself
claimed you were just the man for me
but now my eyes are open
there's nowhere left to hide
the truth is inescapable
my love for you has died

i never meant to hurt you
that guilt will never fade
I wish you every happiness
but my heart won't let me stay
I have no other lover
there's no one else to blame
it's a sad and simple fact my dear
I just don't feel the same

I hate to see you crying
like your life is torn in two
It hurts me more than I can say
doing this to you
but it's kinder to be cruel
than to let you carry on
believing that I loved you still
when all my love has gone

I wanted this to work
much more than you could ever know
but the truth is inescapable
that's why I have to go
One day you will thank me
but for now I share your pain
Next time I'll be careful
not to deceive myself again


He made this

Not quite how I'd imagined it going *grin* but then it never is with Paul lol

Take this one for example:
'Behind my eyes'

This was our first collaboration, he just asked me for some 'dark' 'odd' spoken samples. I have to admit, I got a little carried away thankfully not everything I sent was used, and I didn't send him everything I did lol it was just a leeeeeeetle bit on the worrying side.
In my defense I took my first piece of inspiration from a book by Alan Dean Foster called 'Into the out of' and it is a freaky book but man did my imagination get going..

The second example is even more at odds with the samples I sent him, I'd worked up a complete song against the arrangement he'd emailed me, he wanted to do a 'tongue in cheek 80's thing'

These were the lyrics I sang and sent him:

Do you really want to hurt me
Is there something I should know
Don't, don't you want me
Should I stay or should I go

Take my breathe away again
the sweetest thing I've ever known
I'll be loving you forever
never gonna let you go

I gave you my heart
when the tigers broke free
lover come back to me
all of my heart
breathe life into me
that's love in the first degree
give me back my heart
i want to break free
don't stand so close to me

and if you listen to it you'll see he actually only used about 4 lines in total *sniff* I was a tad gutted because it took me ages to get lyrics that sounded almost natural using only song titles from the 80's..

anyway, here's:

'Orange Street'