5090 by FAWM: "Skyglow"

Skyglow

7 weeks ago by @brisk

Liner Notes

I've been going mad about the words for this one. I wanted something better than this but it hasn't come very easily and I've given up here. Quite pleased with the song musically though. As often happens, what started as one song has turned into two - the other one isn't nearly as finished, and is a lot quieter, but will surface at some point.

This one is made out of a few seconds of my guitar playing cut and pasted and pitchshifted etc... so not actually a performance.

#rock

Lyrics

Tiny little stars are better than none
Everyone alive still wants to be one
Tiny little stars are just having fun
It's true
Yeah

I don't recall, I don't recall
On my ceiling, on my wall
Were they even there at all?
Oh now I see it all

Every light you shine
Gonna make the sky glow
Everytime you shine
Sunshine and rain
Make it the same
Starshine and sky glow

January 1979
Waiting in the dark where I'm biding my time
Then February 1979 and I'm true
Yeah
Hey-ooh

I see it all, I see it all
On my ceiling and my wall
Were they even there at all?
Oh I just can't recall

Every light you shine
Gonna make the skyglow
Everytime you shine
Sunshine and rain
Naked, the same,
Starshine and skyglow

Seventeen stories
Seventeen storeys high
Seventeen stories
Why why why

I am just a speck of dust
was forged in a star's fire
If we did it all again
We couldn't aim for higher

Tiny little stars are
Tiny little stars
Tiny little stars are b...

Tiny little
Seventeen stories
everytime you shine
Sunshine and rain
Naked, the same
Sunshine and skyglow

Comments

@mctown 5w

Nice. Smashing. Cheers.

@mace66 6w

Interesting vocal (or is it pitch shifted guitar) effects in the 1979 verse and some nice harmonies. I think there are some really good bits in the lyrics - the 'I don't recall' and 'I see it all' bridges for example but the 17 stories/storeys lines (although musically fitting well) feel a bit out of place. (Be interesting to hear what the other song that came from this sounds like).

@davidtaro 7w

Took me back to the late 90s in a really uncanny way. The pitchshifted guitar sample works really well, you'd not notice it wasn't a full performance without you saying (well, I wouldn't anyway). Cool overlapping vocal lines in the middle. And the vertiginous melody in the bridge has to be applauded for its ambition! Oooh, cool stops. Yeah, you've really thrown everything in the tool kit at this one. Including the mini screwdrivers at the bottom that you got in a Christmas cracker and convinced yourself would be useful one day. That is a heavily over-extended metaphor. Great rock track - top work here.

@coolparadisoMod 7w

yup classy rock song! i have to say years in lyric mostly work so well.like this one! really full sound. love the over vocals. late on feels very radiohead.

@cola 7w

Rock on! I love this: awesome guitar sound, awesome lyrics, awesome vocal performance. Particularly love the line "January 1979 / Waiting in the dark where I'm biding my time". Really enjoyable listen, nice work!

@mikeskliar 7w

this all works well-- great rock feel and I like what the guitars are doing under the vocal, really creative and tuneful and energetic. Lyric is elliptical and perfect for the music, actually.

@val 7w

Very cool sound. It's so big! It just surrounds. Very cool indeed. I wouldn't be so torn up about the lyrics. I Like them. They have nostalgia, the questioning of existence, the passage of time, memories of greatness. It's really good.

@jerrypettit 7w

When you "do it all" yourself--lyrics, music, and vocal--seems like there's always at least ONE thing to be somewhat "dissatisfied" with. For me this year, it's feeling like my vocals are deteriorating. You mention lyrics for this song--but I really like them, and I suspect others are going to be saying the same thing. I think this is a great song! ❤️