FAWM: "Daydream actors (#commentsfirst)"

Daydream actors (#commentsfirst)

2 weeks ago by @intoyourlight

Daydream actors (#commentsfirst)

intoyourlight

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Liner Notes

This song was written for the #CommentsFirst challenge. Thank you so much for everyone who inspired me to write this!

Phew, you really made me push out of my comfort zone. At first I had to figure out the 12/8 time signature, as I normally write from intuition and by ear, simply by creating what I like, often not knowing what I do there. I found out that I liked a lot of songs with that time signature without even knowing. It would have been easy to create a kind of slow jazz song then, but I got challenged to write something that you could dance to. Also ethereal and kind of sexy. A lot of contradictions here. And that "elevator bossa" interlude is probably one of the most unusual and unexpected parts I wrote in a song, but I like it more and more.

For lyrics, I also had to do a balancing act between storytelling and referring to the human behavior of reenacting situations in ones head.

Instruments:
SSL Drums
Roland Boutique Jp-08
Nord Grand (Chorals & Nerfetiti)
Marcus miller 5-string bass
Rode Nt1

#funk #80s #dance

Lyrics

VERSE 1:
Conversation carousel
In my head
Looping lines of
Things I should have said

It's like I’m hired
To rehearse my life
It’s not what they say
Hollywood is like

CHORUS:
And for a minute I thought
I was enough
To light a spark
Inside your heart

And for a minute I thought
I could embrace
This scripted twisting
Of my fate

Oh for a moment I thought
I had control
Of every role
I play for you

But now it’s daydream acting
Night and day
A lonely life
A big mistake

VERSE 2:
The stage is empty
Still I fright what has been
Anti-heroes it seems
They always win

I’m opting out of this
Strange misery
A hologram
Forever stuck on repeat

I opt out
I want out

CHORUS:
And for a minute I thought
I was enough
To light a spark
Inside your heart

And for a minute I thought
I could embrace
This twisted scripting
Of my fate

Oh for a moment I thought
I had control
Of every role
I play for you

But now it’s daydream acting
Night and day
A lonely life
A big mistake

Comments

@tawny249 1w

I am so very impressed with what you did with such a weird mix of comments! Great lyrics, too - definitely thematically consistent and interesting. I am way too inexperienced musically to attempt a comments-first challenge, but you have fulfilled your mission. 😁

@sbs 2w

Girl, you killed it! Can so hear the Michael Jackson vibe - how clever. I'm dancing, oh yeah! This may be my favorite from you - you know how much I love to dance - lol!

@thedutchwidows 2w

That's so cool. And I can repeat my earlier comment - the 12/8 sections sound great! It's a cool time signature, though sorry for forcing homework on you! Vocals, instrumentation, lyrics, atmosphere, all superb. Totally nailed the brief!

@nadine 2w

This song sounds like a classic from the 80s that gone missing in some great archives. The sounds work so well together with your voice. And I really enjoyed the complexity in the time signatures. Ha that elevator boss break was just brilliant. The interesting fact about the lyrics is that it is about acting... but could also be about acting for somebody else... kind of a weird relationship dynamic... Great stuff!

@intoyourlight 2w

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Thank you so much @rollasoc @katestantonsings @billwhite51 @thedutchwidows @sbs @nadine @markfulwider

@markfulwider 2w

You sexy wombat! Time to get back!

@nadine 2w

Girl, I loved that interlude. Bit of an elevator bossa?

@sbs 2w

We had such a blast at the disco last night!

@thedutchwidows 2w

Such a cool time signature in the verse - is that 12/8?

@billwhite51 2w

people come to hollywood with ambitions of becoming actors and realize they are just acting the part of people who want to be actors

@katestantonsings 2w

Your ethereal soundscapes envelope the listener!

@rollasoc 2w

This song perfectly captures the feeling of someone who plays out their wanted scenarios in their head, but never actually acts upon them.

The replaying of conversations, changing them to how the should have been, not what they were, is basically like reading my thoughts 24/7.

Spooky how close you got to being inside my head!