And another song from my overactive mind.

[Voran]

I know this song uses dark, dramatic imagery, but it's essentially just a song about changing with age, building better habits and leaving unhealthy ones behind.

I'm not very good at discussing emotions or psychology without using dull, boring language. If I just say 'I'm fed up' or 'I've had enough', that's not a song lyric. So, I end up using scifi or fantasy metaphors to get ideas across. In this case the character in the song knows she is being stupid by trespassing in the spirit world where there are demons, enchanted swords she shouldn't touch, etc, and decides to do the mature thing and leave.



Lyrics:

Walk away from me into the darkening blue
I won't see you tonight by the catacombs
I know my words can be sharp blades
But I should not have trespassed here with you

Walk away from me out to the pale white moon
I won't see you tonight at Matka Zemlya's womb
I know my heart has been so cruel
But I should not have trespassed here with you

Walk away from me into the moss-laden ruins
I won't see you again at fair Finvara's tomb
I know my eyes have turned from gold to grey
But I should not have trespassed here with you

I recklessly wandered through a portal
I picked up a blade forged from shimmering red metal
It was not mine, and it weighed too heavy for my hands
I set it back in the stone...I ask the bones their forgiveness....

 

[Voran]

Encouragement post.

We see a lot of covers. Original material with this type of explanation is very interesting.

Can you make a little diagram of the shapes you are using and put that in the text presentation in the appropriate places, with a note indicating what tuning you are using?

Others will be able to work out the GCEA tuning chords themselves if you can do this. Or they can share your tuning and share your music by playing it.

No problem. Let me just finish my soup, and I'll try.

Tuning is actually almost normal coming from me, haha - it's basically regular but downtuned and a few semitones off in the upper strings, creating a little bit of dissonance. D3-D4-G3-C4-E4. This is 'Voran tuning #2' lol. Voran tuning #1 is D4-Bb3-C4-F4 - this one here is much more recent.

To be continued in a minute -

 

[Voran]

Ok unsure how to go about this. I don't even write my music down other than lyrics, I just can never face all the farting about needed to convert my purely instinctive ukulele playing into sheet music.

Let me try and improvise some form of notation, hold on...

 

[Voran]

__4___4______2___2______1___1______1___1___
_3___3______3___3______3___3______3___3____
2___2______2___2______2___2______2___2_____
___________________________________________ x2

____________________________________________
3_3_3_3_____________________________________
_2_2_2_2____________________________________
____________________________________________ (and so on)

Walk away from me into the darkening blue
I won't see you tonight by the catacombs
I know my words can be sharp blades
But I should not have trespassed here with you

4__4__4__4__4____2__2__2__2__2___1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__
3__3__3__3__3____3__3__3__3__3___3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3___
2__2__2__2__2____2__2__2__2__2___2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2____
_________________________________________________(I have NO clue how to notate timing or strum patterns. You're gonna have to just play along with me.)

__4___4______2___2______1___1______1___1___
_3___3______3___3______3___3______3___3____
2___2______2___2______2___2______2___2_____
___________________________________________ x2

____________________________________________
3_3_3_3_____________________________________
_2_2_2_2____________________________________
____________________________________________ (and so on)

Walk away from me out to the pale white moon
I won't see you tonight at Matka Zemlya's womb
I know my heart has been so cruel
But I should not have trespassed here with you

4__4__4__4__4____2__2__2__2__2___1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__
3__3__3__3__3____3__3__3__3__3___3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3___
2__2__2__2__2____2__2__2__2__2___2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2____
____________________________________________________________________

__4___4______2___2______1___1______1___1___
_3___3______3___3______3___3______3___3____
2___2______2___2______2___2______2___2_____
___________________________________________ x2

____________________________________________
3_3_3_3_____________________________________
_2_2_2_2____________________________________
____________________________________________ (and so on)

Walk away from me into the moss-laden ruins
I won't see you again at fair Finvara's tomb
I know my eyes have turned from gold to grey
But I should not have trespassed here with you

4__4__4__4__4____2__2__2__2__2___1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__1__
3__3__3__3__3____3__3__3__3__3___3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3__3___
2__2__2__2__2____2__2__2__2__2___2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2__2____
____________________________________________________________________

___0_____0____________________________________________________________
__3_3___3_3_____________________________________________________________
_2___2_2___2____________________________________________________________
0_____0_____0__________________________________________________________(and so on - I'm too lazy to type all those numerals)

I recklessly wandered through a portal
I picked up a blade forged from shimmering red metal
It was not mine, and it weighed too heavy for my hands
I set it back in the stone...I ask the bones their forgiveness....

 

[Voran]

Would very much appreciate a cover IF anyone feels like it. Especially any low baritones or basses on here...I BREAK for certain male voice types...I do not need drugs to get high and stupid. Listening to Sergey Kryzhnenko is quite enough to make me feel invincible.

 

[Voran]

I wrote the song after I realized certain old friendships of mine had decayed into just arguing online about social justice now and then, and I thought...no, life's too short, I could be doing something constructive with the time I just spent having a raging argument about the politics of gender and pronouns. So I decided to take those people off my social media friend lists, and spend more time with other people who I had much healthier friendships with.

It took a weight off me not having to either remember to tiptoe around flavor-of-the-month issues, or brace myself for an argument, and inspired a song. The song also had a wider meaning of basically just getting off my ass and making the self improvements I'd been putting off for ever. Do I REALLY need that can of Red Bull, when I had 2 today? Wouldn't it be a better idea to drink...wait for it...water?? Should I REALLY be hiking in the cold air while sick? It's why I used all the vaguely dangerous sounding imagery in the song...the character knows it's stupid to go wandering underground in the tombs, or handle an enchanted sword that gives off ominous red light, and in the end she decides to stop doing those things and leave that twilight world behind.

 

[Voran]

Thanks!!! I appreciate you going to all that effort!

 

[Voran]

I think I'll make one for my other 'Voran tuning' as well - I have 2. One dates back to early last year, the other I started using a few months ago when I got my 5-stringed uke. Would help with creating sheet music. I'm gonna have to at some point - I have 78 original songs!

 

[Voran]

Just realized something, that G is actually a G#. I'll redo that sheet sometime.