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The Stars Who Wrote You

By Cursory on June 2, 2024 6:52 pm

Happy Week 22! The immediacy of using a single microphone and no click track is feeling really nice these days. Finding myself not always up to the task of spending energy on much mixing/arranging lately. Just trying to write a song within the week is enough sometimes haha. That said, there’s a satisfaction to pulling together something more polished at times and I will continue to chase that when the time/motivation is there.

Not much to say about lyrics this time, I had the shape of the song figured out before I decided on a direction for lyrics. I felt like I could have leaned into something sad or happy but settled on vague (but also fairly self-evident) space ramblings lol. “The stars who wrote you” was the first line I liked and I tried to build around it.

› Lyrics

Love the lyrics and those soothing chords immediately set the mood.  The repeating bass theme is so pleasing against your calming vocals.  I'm all for more space rambles smile  Nice work!

i'm feeling spaced out today, so this was the perfect soundtrack. voice sounds great and everything supports the feeling. the slide coming in late is the icing on the space cake  smile

Ahh, love the guitar slides, they really complement the tender mood. Loved the space-themed lyrics, they remind me a little of over the moon by the history of future folk (but they're a bit more tongue in cheek). Amazing as always.

What a gorgeous title. big_smile And what a stunningly soft and intimate performance to boot. Beautiful work all around.

Wow.

It's a mark of a real musician when the ebb and flow of their song is at the same time not nailed to the grid, but still repeating and breathing in an intentional way. You make great use of a lack of click track this time around, it doesn't hinder you one bit. The lap steel is a great touch, too.

It's even more impressive if you end up writing an entire song worth of lyrics, and sing it yourself. And your singing manages to be delicate yet clear and professionally pitched. I'm very impressed.

And the story in the song is heartfelt and touching.

beautiful

So nice. Great song.

Tone Matrix wrote:

Love the lyrics and those soothing chords immediately set the mood.  The repeating bass theme is so pleasing against your calming vocals.  I'm all for more space rambles smile  Nice work!

Thank you! Space rambles ftw haha.

jwh wrote:

i'm feeling spaced out today, so this was the perfect soundtrack. voice sounds great and everything supports the feeling. the slide coming in late is the icing on the space cake  smile

Aw yay, space cake! smile Thank you so much.

ddmm64 wrote:

Ahh, love the guitar slides, they really complement the tender mood. Loved the space-themed lyrics, they remind me a little of over the moon by the history of future folk (but they're a bit more tongue in cheek). Amazing as always.

Thank you! Somehow I haven't watched the history of future folk, this is on my to-do list now.

levelcapybara wrote:

What a gorgeous title. big_smile And what a stunningly soft and intimate performance to boot. Beautiful work all around.

Thank you, you're too kind smile The titular lyric is my favorite part.

rplktr wrote:

Wow.

It's a mark of a real musician when the ebb and flow of their song is at the same time not nailed to the grid, but still repeating and breathing in an intentional way. You make great use of a lack of click track this time around, it doesn't hinder you one bit. The lap steel is a great touch, too.

It's even more impressive if you end up writing an entire song worth of lyrics, and sing it yourself. And your singing manages to be delicate yet clear and professionally pitched. I'm very impressed.

And the story in the song is heartfelt and touching.

Oof, this is such a kind compliment I don't know what to do with myself. All I can say is thank you, I will try to live up to this.

emily wrote:

beautiful

Thank you, what a perfect image smile

Q-Rosh wrote:

So nice. Great song.

Thank you!

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