Want It To End

by @morti

Liner Notes

This is the first song I've written since February 2019! It's nice to be back. I also broke a string the moment I start recording so there's no normal electric guitar in this, but there is a Yamaha Silent Guitar doing its best impression. Such is life. 😄

Lyrics

You picked the best of days
To throw your life away
It's too late to think about it
When you can read about it

It's not the problem that gets you but the lack of solution
Finding consensus doesn't mean you've found the conclusion

Tell me what did you want to say
Did you want to start over
Did you want it to end

Tell me what did you hope to gain
From the stretch and the strain
Don't you want it to end

It's not for you to say
Where to meet half way
Just be the best you can be
Indefatigably

It's not the problem that gets you but the lack of solution
Finding consensus doesn't mean you've found the conclusion

Tell me what did you want to say
Did you want to start over
Did you want it to end

Tell me what did you hope to gain
From the stretch and the strain
Don't you want it to end

Comments

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@brisk
You sent me down a Yamaha Silent Guitar rabbit hole there, thanks! It does indeed sound like a guitar. I like the energy of this track.
Like the overlapping vocals at the end, the work nicely. The climactic "e-e-e-end" is great.
I like the lyrics I like the fact that it is closely focussed on delivering a message to the recipient/target/interlocutor. They feel exasperated, and real.
#tit4tat1
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Welcome back. I like the lift in the pre-chorus into chorus-proper.

More widely, listening to this compared to your "This Old House" track: the directness of TOH's message appeals more to me compared to the, um, opaqueness as to what WITE is about.

[With apologies: given the FAWM process and a dollop of subjectivity, this comparison may be worthless 😊, but it did lead to "consider direct vs subtler song-meanings" being added to my FAWM-inspired list of "creative techniques to use".]
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Great song! I like it, it was an easy, enjoyable listen. And congrats on getting back to songwriting after 4 years.
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You did a bang up job especially considering the lack of a proper electric guitar. I like the ending in particular with the repeated "don't you want it to end", has this "oh fuck it let's just be done with it" vibe that really fits.
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@debs
Oh no - sorry to hear about the broken guitar string! I really dig the arrangement; it's really dynamic and really pulled me in. Really strong and punchy lyrics too! Welcome back my friend!
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Great opening lines, those first two are perfect. Great structure with lots to pull the listener in. Good arrangement, too... I love that pause in the percussion and how it kicks back in then builds. Good job showing off your producer ear on your first song back.
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Whoa, so many giant hooks! I love this so much. For some reason the little guitar hook after "solution" felt so wonderfully perfect to me, but holy cow, there are so many feel good hooks here that send me. Fantastic.
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Way to get back into it, this sounds really alive. Such an original take on 'indefatigably'! You pull off the final section with confidence.
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I really enjoyed this. Had a bit of a 'hang on, I know that bass line" moment a the start, which is a perennial problem; but I finally figured out where I think i know it from; when the chorus hits I'm all kinds of happy and in my 90s place.
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@pooka
This is a fun song, although I've no idea what it's about! It's a nice, poppy slab of rock.
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The tone of this one is really interesting, landing for me somewhere between cheerful mockery and a 'courageous conversion' born of actual caring. The vagueness intrigues me, and I can't help but wonder what the underlying story is.

It's impressive to hear some verbally cumbersome lines bounce along like a sardonic beachball - the prechorus being especially strong here, to say nothing of 'indefatigably'.
[FAWM]