Tim ([info]test_rocker) wrote,
@ 2009-10-01 15:37:00
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Current mood: writin' writin' writin'
Current music:Bruce Cockburn, "Tokyo"
Entry tags:music, new york

Me and all these other dice bouncing around in the cup
UNION PARK

Hey there kid, your heartbeat's a metronome click
You're a wildfire, you're twentieth century music
So if you'll spare a drag of your fag, I'll bring my guitar
And I'll meet you down at Union Park

You got the soul of a Holiday singing up some blues
I'll strum you up the rhythms of Robertson's contemporary tunes
We can perform for all the dog walkers, the joggers, your co-worker stalker
Busk out a few favorites until the cops ask for our permit
Pack it up and move along now

Hey there kid, your heartbeat's a metronome click
You're a wildfire, you're twentieth century music
So if you'll spare a swig of your fifth, I'll bring my guitar
And we can sing for all the weirdos down at Union Park

Your voice is a trap incognito as jazzy three four tap
The most beautiful sound this side of Broadway even if the Blue Note don't recognize that
We'll find a better place with a better sense of taste
'Cause lyrebirds in song were made for the stage
And I was meant for free drinks on the house

Hey there kid, your heartbeat's a metronome click
You're a wildfire, you're twentieth century music
So if you'll spare a mote of a note, I'll bring my guitar
And we can share a song down at Union Park
And we can symphonize down at Union Park
And we can spend some time down at Union Park




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[info]ryanlikesrap
2009-10-02 01:40 am UTC (link)
what does "your heartbeat's a metronome click" mean?

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[info]test_rocker
2009-10-02 02:01 am UTC (link)
Living for music. It's "Rock & Roll Heart", condensed into one line and not as annoying.

Trivia: This is the third or fourth rewrite of this song. The first two or three were initially conceived as love songs, and the line originally read as "Your heartbeat is my metronome click", which was written as a cute way to describe how inspirational the subject was to the narrator. This approach to the song was practically abandoned because I generally hate straight up love songs, and now the song is about a singer and a guitarist playing at a park and at a bar, with some romantic undertones. I liked the chorus so much that I changed barely a thing of it, and just rewrote the verses completely. I changed the line from "Your heartbeat is my metronome click" to "Your heartbeat's a metronome click" to shift the focus from the narrator's love of the subject to the subject's love of music.

I wrote this before I asked you what I should write a song about. I still plan on looking into the whole Green Revolution thing you described to me.

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[info]ryanlikesrap
2009-10-02 02:47 am UTC (link)
i thought rock n roll heart was about preteen girls.

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