Lyrics 1

Janny · 05-28-2004, 03:54 PM

True
This is not that love song
Which can overcome all wrongs
This is the truth from me to you

This is for the girl who cries
And whose tears don’t form pure lines
For the girl who ‘treads the ground’

This is the truth
This is the truth
This is the truth
This is the truth from me to you

This is for the softness in a face
For a rose’s first trace
For the soul within a smile

This is for the words I leave unsaid
Which burn in me instead
And stay alive in you

Chorus

These don’t make me think of you
But make me think of what you do
You are true, you are true,
You are, you are, you are true

Beruthiel's cat · 05-28-2004, 04:38 PM

I'd like to hear the music these words are set to, Janny. (a bit hard to do when one's computer has no sound card -- long story --)

I love the stanza:

"This is for the words I leave unsaid
Which burn in me instead
And stay alive in you"

A well-rendered emotional image.

I'm a bit confused by these two lines in the chorus:

"These don’t make me think of you
But make me think of you"

I just kind of went "huh??" when I read them. But I'm old...this is a song...what do I know???

Nice work, Janny!!

Janny · 05-29-2004, 05:18 AM

Eeb ah... supposed to read:
'These don't make me think of you,
But make me think of what you do'

I posted it because I couldn't work out if I liked it or not. It just seemed overtly cliched, and almost not in my style. It wasn't really saying anything either, but it was a song I'd been waiting a long while to write. the kind of thing you get in your mind and don't know how to phrase for about a year and a half and one night comes out in a form completely different to what you expect.
Thank you!

sun-star · 05-29-2004, 11:32 AM

I think this is actually my favourite of your songs. It's nicely unspecific and very personal (read: I don't know what it's about!), so it seems extremely heartfelt. Much better with the tune though, IMO

P.S. "True" is the title, right? Not the first line?

Janny · 05-29-2004, 01:15 PM

Yeah the title, weird Entmoot dealing of spaces...
Thanks, you just want a cut of the profits .

Any criticisms?

***Tessar*** · 05-29-2004, 11:15 PM

I like it!

I wish you'd sing it. I already have several melodies running through my head and I'd like to know if I'm even remotely correct.

Janny · 05-30-2004, 06:05 AM

Thank you!

Much as I'd love to sing it, the quality of the file I have is a joke, and I can't upload 3MB onto the Moot.
Also it would make Moot gals interested in me as a dark horse third party in you little arguement with Hector!

Janny · 07-14-2004, 03:20 PM

A little song. I just felt it was time to subject... I mean... grace the Moot with some lyrics. This sin'tnew, but I rediscovered it. I would post more lyrics, but most of them are proped up by the tune. It's a simple guitar thing embelished with harmonica, if I can be bothered. It starts quiet and cresendos for the middle section, before ending quietly. Though I am thinking of doing it all quietly, since Mme sun-star appriciated the 11 o'clock with parents in bed version.
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Heaven’s Gone

When I said goodbye I wasn’t ready to mean it
I knew that I would see you in just another week
A little time of freedom is soured when it never ends
It’s freedom for you… I’ll pretend

I miss you like hell, I miss you like hell
That’s all that’s left now heaven’s gone

And in the black you can be just beyond my reach
But a fleeting smile is all your soft face gives
And I miss stupid things like your pulse through my fingertips
There’s no heart in the world that can so sweetly beat…

And you were my light
Too good to blind but bright
Like a light I can see you still when I close my eyes
But like with a light, your fading.

Janny · 07-17-2004, 05:04 PM

I'm bored. It's late but I don't want to go to bed. I'm tired of defining Communism and explaining to NAGTies that 'zionist lackey' is not exactly a term of endearment... they seemed to find it okay because they were using it in reference to George Bush. In conclusion, smart kids go to bed early and the rest of my friends are partying in Milton Keynes or are at family reunions.
Which leads us to this: another song. Very plinky littl guitar number... happy, but I'm accused of singing it sad... It is as yet unnamed.

I love the way the water turn your hair jet black
I love the way the sea shines like crystals from your back
I love the way you hate the photos of yourself
I love how you’re so meek
I wish I could take you in my arms and be mine in a summer kiss

Do you remember when we walked barefoot down the burning promenade?
Do you remember how I made you smile?
Because I remember the starlight captured in your eyes
And the sun on you face too
No-one can hold the beauty of a sunset
Like I could if I held you

I took you out to the cliff top cusp of the universe
To where the grey sea crashes to white
And as every second’s thought faded to you
I took you as mine

I remember the starlight captured in your eyes
And the sun on you face too
No-one can hold the beauty of a sunset
Like I could as I held you

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Is it possibly that music could be uploaded to here?

Janny · 09-02-2004, 03:27 PM

In answer to my own question, I have hi-jacked the idea of using www.soundclick.com. I haven't got the heart to openly hijack it in the original thread, so I've tucked it away here in my ego trip thread where only the most discerning Jannyphile will read it.

Just two little numbers:

Janny's songs

Lady Ravyn · 09-02-2004, 08:50 PM

janny those are so awesome! the lyrics and the musci really came together in those two that you recorded there; you're very talented! do you plan on doing anything with singing or music? or is it just a hobby?

Janny · 09-03-2004, 12:18 PM

Thank-you, thanks very much.

I'm afraid I'm in full time education at atm and I don't really have plans to enter music... I think I'll be taking the University route, but who knows.
Thanks!

Mercutio · 09-03-2004, 01:33 PM

Woah--that's you Janny? In the "Janny's Songs"? I'm so impressed. I'll have to burn a cd of it

I started to try to learn guitar (decided it can't be too complicated). The only thing is I can't get the finger positions quite right (not pushing down hard enough; not close enough to the fret).

Hey did you know my brother was in London for the entire summer? (he's back here now) And my dad went over and they went to the Scottish borders.

Hey I think you'd like this cd: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...31043?v=glance

try listening to some of the samples.

05-28-2004, 03:54 PM	#1
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Lyrics by Janny True This is not that love song Which can overcome all wrongs This is the truth from me to you This is for the girl who cries And whose tears don’t form pure lines For the girl who ‘treads the ground’ This is the truth This is the truth This is the truth This is the truth from me to you This is for the softness in a face For a rose’s first trace For the soul within a smile This is for the words I leave unsaid Which burn in me instead And stay alive in you Chorus These don’t make me think of you But make me think of what you do You are true, you are true, You are, you are, you are true __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. Last edited by Janny : 07-22-2004 at 03:40 PM. Reason: Stupid thread title... can I change that? Am I talking to a mod, or justifying to the reader? Either way... this new moot is cool :)

05-28-2004, 04:38 PM	#2
Beruthiel's cat mystical divinity of Unashamed Felinity Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New York's beautiful North Coast -- we're all mad here!!! Posts: 635	I'd like to hear the music these words are set to, Janny. (a bit hard to do when one's computer has no sound card -- long story --) I love the stanza: "This is for the words I leave unsaid Which burn in me instead And stay alive in you" A well-rendered emotional image. I'm a bit confused by these two lines in the chorus: "These don’t make me think of you But make me think of you" I just kind of went "huh??" when I read them. But I'm old...this is a song...what do I know??? Nice work, Janny!! __________________ "Never try to out-stubborn a cat!" -- R. Heinlein ~~~~~~~~~ "But I don't want to be among mad people, " Alice remarked. "Oh, but you can't help that," said the Cat; "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." ~~ Lewis Carroll ~~~~~~~~~~~ Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana...

05-29-2004, 05:18 AM	#3
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Eeb ah... supposed to read: 'These don't make me think of you, But make me think of what you do' I posted it because I couldn't work out if I liked it or not. It just seemed overtly cliched, and almost not in my style. It wasn't really saying anything either, but it was a song I'd been waiting a long while to write. the kind of thing you get in your mind and don't know how to phrase for about a year and a half and one night comes out in a form completely different to what you expect. Thank you! __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

05-29-2004, 11:32 AM	#4
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I think this is actually my favourite of your songs. It's nicely unspecific and very personal (read: I don't know what it's about!), so it seems extremely heartfelt. Much better with the tune though, IMO P.S. "True" is the title, right? Not the first line? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-29-2004, 01:15 PM	#5
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Yeah the title, weird Entmoot dealing of spaces... Thanks, you just want a cut of the profits . Any criticisms? __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

05-29-2004, 11:15 PM	#6
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I like it! I wish you'd sing it. I already have several melodies running through my head and I'd like to know if I'm even remotely correct.

05-30-2004, 06:05 AM	#7
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Thank you! Much as I'd love to sing it, the quality of the file I have is a joke, and I can't upload 3MB onto the Moot. Also it would make Moot gals interested in me as a dark horse third party in you little arguement with Hector! __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-14-2004, 03:20 PM	#8
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	A little song. I just felt it was time to subject... I mean... grace the Moot with some lyrics. This sin'tnew, but I rediscovered it. I would post more lyrics, but most of them are proped up by the tune. It's a simple guitar thing embelished with harmonica, if I can be bothered. It starts quiet and cresendos for the middle section, before ending quietly. Though I am thinking of doing it all quietly, since Mme sun-star appriciated the 11 o'clock with parents in bed version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heaven’s Gone When I said goodbye I wasn’t ready to mean it I knew that I would see you in just another week A little time of freedom is soured when it never ends It’s freedom for you… I’ll pretend I miss you like hell, I miss you like hell That’s all that’s left now heaven’s gone And in the black you can be just beyond my reach But a fleeting smile is all your soft face gives And I miss stupid things like your pulse through my fingertips There’s no heart in the world that can so sweetly beat… And you were my light Too good to blind but bright Like a light I can see you still when I close my eyes But like with a light, your fading. __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

07-17-2004, 05:04 PM	#9
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	I'm bored. It's late but I don't want to go to bed. I'm tired of defining Communism and explaining to NAGTies that 'zionist lackey' is not exactly a term of endearment... they seemed to find it okay because they were using it in reference to George Bush. In conclusion, smart kids go to bed early and the rest of my friends are partying in Milton Keynes or are at family reunions. Which leads us to this: another song. Very plinky littl guitar number... happy, but I'm accused of singing it sad... It is as yet unnamed. I love the way the water turn your hair jet black I love the way the sea shines like crystals from your back I love the way you hate the photos of yourself I love how you’re so meek I wish I could take you in my arms and be mine in a summer kiss Do you remember when we walked barefoot down the burning promenade? Do you remember how I made you smile? Because I remember the starlight captured in your eyes And the sun on you face too No-one can hold the beauty of a sunset Like I could if I held you I took you out to the cliff top cusp of the universe To where the grey sea crashes to white And as every second’s thought faded to you I took you as mine I remember the starlight captured in your eyes And the sun on you face too No-one can hold the beauty of a sunset Like I could as I held you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is it possibly that music could be uploaded to here? __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. Last edited by Janny : 07-17-2004 at 05:06 PM.

09-02-2004, 03:27 PM	#10
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	In answer to my own question, I have hi-jacked the idea of using www.soundclick.com. I haven't got the heart to openly hijack it in the original thread, so I've tucked it away here in my ego trip thread where only the most discerning Jannyphile will read it. Just two little numbers: Janny's songs __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. Last edited by Janny : 09-02-2004 at 03:29 PM.

09-02-2004, 08:50 PM	#11
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	janny those are so awesome! the lyrics and the musci really came together in those two that you recorded there; you're very talented! do you plan on doing anything with singing or music? or is it just a hobby? __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

09-03-2004, 12:18 PM	#12
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Thank-you, thanks very much. I'm afraid I'm in full time education at atm and I don't really have plans to enter music... I think I'll be taking the University route, but who knows. Thanks! __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

09-03-2004, 01:33 PM	#13
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Woah--that's you Janny? In the "Janny's Songs"? I'm so impressed. I'll have to burn a cd of it I started to try to learn guitar (decided it can't be too complicated). The only thing is I can't get the finger positions quite right (not pushing down hard enough; not close enough to the fret). Hey did you know my brother was in London for the entire summer? (he's back here now) And my dad went over and they went to the Scottish borders. Hey I think you'd like this cd: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...31043?v=glance try listening to some of the samples. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

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