Dorian Gray

1 week ago by @majordanby

Dorian Gray

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Liner Notes

#acoustic #guywithguitar #piano

I heard a song by @guatecoop which I thought I might be able to come up with something for and was going to use these lyrics but I couldn't make them fit. @karlsburg25 said that he also wanted to use Rob’s track so I sent hm these lyrics in the hope that he'd maybe get them to work but he'd already come up with a melody and had some words so I thought I'd keep them for myself. :-)

I was listening to Thom Yorke play an acoustic version of 'Creep' and noticed it was just a four chord trick which he made interesting with his melodic vocal range. This is my stab at something similar (although not of the standard of Radiohead or Creep!).

The inspiration for the lyrics is a wonderful book by Matt Haig called, 'How to Stop Time'.

It's Dm - Bb - F - C all the way through if you want to strum along.

EDIT: I've mixed this down again as my vocals were very high in the mix so hopefully this'll sound better.

Lyrics

A modern day Dorian Gray,
Enters just left of shot,
An old wooden door,
Defies its tired hinges,
And creaks like the floorboards he walks upon,
He knows that they’ll chase him away,
Accused of still looking the same,
He wonders if she will come with him again?
Does she love him though?
Now that she’s old and bitten by age,
She might have to let him go,
To spare him from long and drawn out goodbyes,
She’d rather just go,
Extinguished like so many fires,
She won’t forget him though,
With him she lived so many lives.

A modern day Dorian Gray,
Sits all alone in the dark,
Except for a shard of light,
He watches the particles float,
Reenacting the first days of the universe,
And now he thinks back to when they first met,
She was just like that beam of light,
The way that she’d light up the room,
And she’d radiate warmth
Like a fireplace,
All crackling and dancing in flames,
Like beautiful girls on a stage,
Spinning each other round and round,
He’s so tired; despite his face,
Which gives away no passing of time,
But this little house where he sits,
Is falling apart just like him.

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