New song forming — again! This one hasn’t taken long – melody and lyrics started to come to me late last night…and now I’m starting to wonder whether the Lovestruck album will ever really be finished.

Work in progress !

27/12/17 – Pretty much got these lyrics how I want them…not sure whether to include ‘morning’ into the punch line yet.  Time will tell 🙂

29/12/17 – Wow i’m really struggling with the lyrics now.  I get a bit carried away sometimes and often make a mess of what was possibly ‘ok’

31/12/17 – lyrics need simplifying/minimising in middle section.  Working on this song later

 

Capo 1

Verse(s):

Dm    Am   G        F     Dm    Am   G        F

G          G         F      G      G

Dm    Am

G        F

Dm    Am

G       F

‘Rap’ section (palm mute rhythm)

Occilates mostly between:

G5   D5   G5   G#5  D5    C5

Verse 1

If you’ve moved on

Will you tell me before tomorrow comes

And if your heart’s really gone

Will you tell me In Time For The Sun

It’s not because I’m lonely

Or that you owe me anything at all

It’s not because I tried too hard

Or the tears I’ve cried

I just need to know

Before the rain clouds form into a thunder storm

If you’ve moved on

Will you tell me before tomorrow comes

And if your heart’s really gone

Will you tell me In Time For The Sun

‘Rap’

It’s time you zapped the cable to this operatic fable

To this fairy-tale love that’s playin out in my mind

Under your thumb to the gun to the curse of the sun

It’s time to toss em on the table, them cards onto the table

Stop playin the jester while I keep up the pester

Lover don’t run just succumb to the verse of the drum

You’ve been danglin the carrot now i’m soundin like a parrot

Don’t you think it’s time to close the gap n wrap this up?

Cause I need your presence, your effervescence

Lights turned on, don’t turn em out, just hear me out

Drop the needle onto eternity or turn the key n set me free

Verse 2

If you’ve moved on

Will you tell me before tomorrow comes

And if your heart’s really gone

Will you tell me In Time For The Sun

Cause all the time I’ve been holdin out for you

Someone else they got their eyes on me

Layin all their tricks on me

Tryin to steal me away from you

But I’ll never stray or let anyone get in our way

(So quit makin a fool outta me)

If you’ve moved on

Will you tell me before tomorrow comes

And if your heart’s really gone

Will you tell me In Time For The Sun

Will you tell me In Time For The Sun 

Will you tell me In Time For The Sun

Musical idea so far:

[Palm mute, downstrum (U2-style)]

Capo 3rd fret – power chord progression starting on A-string > 5th fret

(starts on D)

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Verse 1

Let me tell you last night

It’s the closest I’ve ever got to you

So close I could’ve touched ya

And for a split second i believe that we’re in heaven

Then i’m pulled away back into the dark

I gotta pain in my throat & salt water in my eyes

3am in the early mornin and i’m wonderin if you

Were ever really here at all

Chorus

Oh telephone line

I called you up in my dreams

And after all this time

You finally answered my plea

But when I ask you to be mine

You shatter my soul with just one word

I’m falling down as I come around

Verse 2

I heard you tell me last night

Why i’m never gonna get to be with you

Why I’m never gonna touch ya

Is it all just a hoax is my love for you just a joke?

I’m tryna speak but my heart

Yeah my heart just lost its voice

It’s just a silent scream in the early mornin

Wakin up to the bitter-blue aftertaste of you

Chorus

Oh telephone line

I called you up in my dreams

And after all this time

You finally answered my plea

But when I ask you to be mine

You shatter my soul with just one word

I’m falling down as I come around

Verse 3/Outro

I ask you why you tell me

Why you’re never gonna be mine

We’re warped in time

And my heart stops beatin when you say

That you just don’t feel the same way

The way that I feel about you……

You say it’s all about desire

About Ice cream & Fire

Then you hang up the phone

And you leave me all alone…….

Hot to trot like Ice cream & Fire

And we’re frozen in the night

And you leave my heart to die

You leave me alone with desire

And with nowhere left to go-o-o-o-o-o-o

I go back into my dreams

I go back to that place

To try to find you a-g-a-a-a-a-in