I've decided to blog my songwriting efforts in hopes of getting feedback and taking everyone along for the ride of writing songs. I'll first just post lyrics then the music once I get it recorded. The hope is to someday release these songs on an album. The format is as follows:
Verse: normal text
Chorus: bold text
Bridge: italic text
The first song I'd like to share is called Rumors in the Lobby. It's about the bank bailouts that took place over the past year and some of the things that went along with it. Here's a quick analysis:
- The first verse is about the financial system and how they took advantage of so many honest hardworking people
- The chorus is a sarcastic thank you to the government for bailing out the people who caused the problem in the first place, while holding the rest of us responsible for not only our actions, but theirs as well
- The second verse is about the military and the way they brainwash young people into fighting for their leaders personal agendas
- The bridge section asks that unanswerable questions, "Why try if you're destined to fail?"
- The third verse is just trying to capture the innocence we all once had. Nothing is as innocent as a child
Rumors in the Lobby by Kris Rodgers
The broker filled his pipeline today
with coin that the others had made
he pissed it all away
for a chance to make double his pay
Thank you, Mr. President
We got a savior at last
I've heard rumors in the lobby
But I won't stand to go down like this, not like this
The soldier does what he's told but he likes it, he's told that he likes it
Now he waves as he floats away to a far off fucked up place to die
But he likes that too and you know it's true cause he can't tell a lie...
Thank you, Mr. President
We got a savior at last
I've heard rumors in the lobby
But I won't stand to go down like this, not like this
Why? Everytime I try to live I get denied
Well it's easy to believe when you can't see the other side
One more mile and we'll be home but this sure does seem like an empty road to dreamin
Drink up to believing...
The child lives in a world full of good, with shelter from storms of the cruel
Now he dreams of a far off place, where he's the hero that slays the beast
when he wakes up in the night to an endless pillow fight...
Thank you, Mr. President
We got our savior at last
I've heard rumors in the lobby
But I won't stand to go down like this, not like this
I would love feedback and comments. Grill me!
-K
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