Perfectly Human

5 songs are vocally drafted. I like one a lot! I started with Frisbee & the Breeze. By the end of recording it, I had changed several lines and was laughing so hard I was crying.

In total, there’s well over 60 songs nearly ready to record. The project is an attempt to explore 7 different music genres while telling a longer narrative, driven by public health issues. Today I began recording drafts for the country, pop, rock, and emo genres. (I’m iffy with the hip-hop one, so I haven’t tried recording for it yet. My daughter and I are thinking about asking someone, more skilled, to help with the vocals.)

The very first album is pop love songs/ballads. It’s the intro into the narrative arc of the entire project.

Funny thing, while recording, the melodies (I thought that I couldn’t find again) were still in the words. The same ones I heard when I was writing them down. Also, my own voice sounds much more palatable when it’s an original song, there’s not another version to compare it to. 

Here’s a very rough-draft of the chorus and second verse of Dysmorphia. It’s not great, but it’s something? (I went quiet halfway in, because the neighbors were above me, my voice carries.)

Lyrics:

Chorus:  

Drowning in debts, chained by the ring  

In an endless loop, the sorrow it brings  

Dreams all abandoned, left out to decay  

Love’s union shattered, it drifted away 

In suffocating love, the same breath of pain  

Oh, wrapped in his arms, feelings are restrained  

Trapped in the cycle, and longing to breathe  

In love’s suffocation, yearning to be free 

Verse 2:  

Melancholy dysmorphia, a mirror’s cruel deceit  

She battles her reflection, feeling incomplete  

Each touch is a reminder, every bite she takes  

She’s never who he wanted, her heart constantly breaks