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changing (for the better) (NGAUC Knockout Round)

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Thank you for listening to "changing (for the better)"! I hope you enjoy it!

Edit: changed rating from E to T for subject matter


You can find more of my music here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4uSqBRfWZKXG7uRrrY6oEs?si=O8GCrzSCRhuea1VR84X6FA


Lyrics so you can sing along:

(chorus)

Close my eyes, I'm numb again,

I'll bite my tongue and swallow it

Take me apart so I can fit in

I'm losing my oxygen

Don't like my thoughts, well, some of them

I'm not the person I thought I once was

Blame it on my mind because

I do not like who I've become

'Cause I'm the only one there for me

Slowly falling silently

I'll reach the bottom finally

Starting a change, for the better, I'm trying

(verse 1)

Told you I'm trying, and I swear I am though

Currently living on time that I borrowed

Can't say I'm thriving, I'm tired and hollow

Not sure that I want to wake up tomorrow

Looking at pictures like where did the time go?

Scope of the world shrink me down to a microbe

Quickly I'm sinking, missed out on my lifeboat

Sixty to six feet, I fell off my tightrope

(chorus)

Close my eyes, I'm numb again,

I'll bite my tongue and swallow it

Take me apart so I can fit in

I'm losing my oxygen

Don't like my thoughts, well, some of them

I'm not the person I thought I once was

Blame it on my mind because

I do not like who I've become

'Cause I'm the only one there for me

Slowly falling silently

I'll reach the bottom finally

Starting a change, for the better, I'm trying

(verse 2)

Except when I'm crying, or hardly replying

I'll sit in the silence, where you'll never find me

I know you despise me, you're holding too tightly

Still think of me nightly, except impolitely

On freeway, go ninety, just so I feel lively

I'm high but not mighty, I'm actually tiny

Hold on to me tightly, 'cause storms here are likely

To let lightning strike me, to let lightning strike me

(chorus)

Close my eyes, I'm numb again,

I'll bite my tongue and swallow it

Take me apart so I can fit in

I'm losing my oxygen

Don't like my thoughts, well, some of them

I'm not the person I thought I once was

Blame it on my mind because

I do not like who I've become

'Cause I'm the only one there for me

Slowly falling silently

I'll reach the bottom finally

Starting a change, for the better, I'm trying

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I'm not usually into vox...
I really dig the lyrics.
Catchy lyrical melodies as well.
Catchy chorus.
I replayed it a handful of times now.

Maybe I'm overly-critical but I'm not sure how I feel about the vocal-stressing/note dipping of certain words in verse 2. It's not toooooo bad, but I'd kinda like to hear it unstressed and smoother like in the first verse. It doesn't seem to fit the rest of the piece. That said...I do like you trying to add variation.

Vatriox responds:

Thank you for your feedback! I kinda noticed that myself haha! I actually re-recorded the verse a handful of times until I got something I was okay with, totally get that you pointed it out lmao

That's pretty solid lyrics! For some reason the back melody reminds me of the song in Chrono Trigger 19 Arris Dome theme. There a melancholy air to it.

Vatriox responds:

thank you so much! I'm happy you enjoyed it!

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Faves:
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Votes
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Score
4.46 / 5.00

Uploaded
Aug 16, 2022
9:41 PM EDT
Genre
Experimental
File Info
Song
6 MB
2 min 39 sec

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