I wrote a new song

I feel like this new teacher degree thing is slowly sucking the life out of me. It’s fun but I’m dead by 8 pm on Friday night. That’s not good. And the busy part is supposed to arrive from September on. I worry sometimes…

Next Friday is Mischa’s CD release party in Groningen. He’ll be playing live on stage and I’ll probably join him on one song. The release party of I tried to melt the snow, but ran out of matches will be in café Karakter in Groningen www.cafekarakter.nl (Kleine Pelsterstraat 6). The thing starts to get interesting from 20.30. Admittance is free!

Re: the subject of this message: I just wrote a new song. I figured I should try to tell more stories in my music so I wrote one about a girl who’s life has gone quite wrong. I guess it’s basically inspired by my teaching because I see all these young children, whose lives could go either way. They haven’t decided on what they’re going to be like yet. Now their lives haven’t gone wrong yet obviously, and I certainly am hoping they won’t. But it certainly makes you wonder what they will be like later in life. The song is about not knowing what you’ll be like in 10 years time.

Then again, I had to put in some introspective lyrics for the I-person in this song. It’s not necessarily me, but I wanted the song to have a bit of hope in it as well, so I thought up an I-person that may or not bring the girl back to a proper life. But that I-person isn’t perfect either. The song is called Bigger Things (working title) and I’ll try to record it during the holidays. And then maybe I can put it on Myspace.

~ by shlnl on April 18, 2009.