This is the newest song the band has right now. It has a lot of stops and starts in it, and Sam used to be in this band called The Arrest, which I always thought was a great name that shouldn’t disappear forever, so we stole (?) it for this song. Or I did.
At practice in the middle of April, I just started playing this Dmaj7 to A thing with a stop between each pair of chords. And it was pretty okay. Sam came up with what passes for a chorus in the song and invented a lower-register harmony to the lyrics I eventually wrote. It just kind of came together. Anything I write by myself and bring to the band ends up boring me after a while; it’s the stuff that gets invented at practice and sticks that keeps me interested for a while.
The song’s meaning is kind of obvious. It’s about love or the lack thereof and the confusion of that disappearing or seeming to disappear, etc., so on. Common stock for songs, I think.
I don’t care if you care anymore
cause I’ve already stopped
I don’t care what you wear anymore
or who you’re letting watch
and if you feel lonely, you’ve got your reasons to call
if you feel lonely, you’ve got your reasons to crawl
(sike-out chorus that doesn’t deliver)
I guess I’m unaware if you care anymore
it seems that we both want
to be less needy than we’ve always seemed,
we need to stop counting months
and if you feel lonely, you’ve got no reason to cry
you say you feel lonely, you’ve got your reasons to lie
I see no difference in traffic lights
red or green, I just stop
maybe you’re right, maybe it’s wrong
to make every fight a clever song
that’s lasts long after we’ve gone on
we could go on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
on and on and (just stop)
I see no difference in traffic lights
wedding nights that turn in to knife fights
no difference in wrong or right
if you start to like, I just…
