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How Long (Turn the Page)

By Jackmsimpson on July 3, 2026 8:45 pm

This was last week's original track - mostly written and recorded, but pushed to be finished off this week. Really wanted to have a powerful, big finish and I feel I achieved this on the most part.

A few little bits here and there to maybe work on - feeling my vocal melodies are a little stale now and my next task is to look at more adventurous vocal ideas - harmonies included.


I have often thought fade-outs to be a little lazy, but it's weirdly what I had envisioned for this track when I decided on the looping ending...   

Thanks for listening - Have a great week!

Lyrics are here:

Empty motorways
And red eye flights
Broken promises
Try as I mights
Overflowing pessimism
Always asking for permission
Awkward silences
And staring at the wall


Oh how long
Til I believe you
Oh how long
Til I deceive you
Oh How loong


Another screaming match
A makeshift bed
Got no sleep again
Need a clear head
The bottom of the glass is raised
Pour Another anyway
Silent mealtimes
Nothing to say

Oh how long
Til I believe you
Oh how long
Til I deceive you
Oh How loong


Turn the page
Rip off the band aid
Fade to black
The final chapter
no happy ever after
The way you meant to
The way we meant to
This way is meant to...

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You had me from the first chords on this. Great jangle as per usual, and THAT SOLO. Launched clear into space. VU meters started melting around 3 minutes, love the overdrive.

Oh man. Yeah, you got the big ending. Really, really well done.

I have no problems with a good fade. smile It's been shown in studies that a fade causes a song to stick in a listener's head after the song is over. And on a song with a big ending like this? Perfect usage heart

More unsolicited thoughts, but related to your comments smile

Personally, I love your vocal melodies and don't think they're stale, they fit really well with your songs. But an observation - are you using pitch correction? (If you're not, you have perfect pitch, and I apologize smile ) But I'd love to hear a vocal line with some more imperfections, out-of-tune-ness included. I love how organic your guitars sound - maybe go for a slightly more organic vocal sound. And definitely...more harmonies!

Great stuff as per usual, love your writing. Another favorite.

Paisleyfrog wrote:

You had me from the first chords on this. Great jangle as per usual, and THAT SOLO. Launched clear into space. VU meters started melting around 3 minutes, love the overdrive.

Oh man. Yeah, you got the big ending. Really, really well done.

I have no problems with a good fade. smile It's been shown in studies that a fade causes a song to stick in a listener's head after the song is over. And on a song with a big ending like this? Perfect usage heart

More unsolicited thoughts, but related to your comments smile

Personally, I love your vocal melodies and don't think they're stale, they fit really well with your songs. But an observation - are you using pitch correction? (If you're not, you have perfect pitch, and I apologize smile ) But I'd love to hear a vocal line with some more imperfections, out-of-tune-ness included. I love how organic your guitars sound - maybe go for a slightly more organic vocal sound. And definitely...more harmonies!

Great stuff as per usual, love your writing. Another favorite.

Thanks for the nice feedback! Always appreciate the comments and point to improve.

I do use pitch correction most of the time- I try not to make it sound too obvious or over the top, but maybe i did this time and it was a bit too blatant haha! I think as a non-singer, its a bit of a point of insecurity, so I feel that tuning vocals (maybe sometimes too much) is better than a fully natural take - I will push to work on this though!

Thanks again!

Jackmsimpson wrote:


I do use pitch correction most of the time- I try not to make it sound too obvious or over the top, but maybe i did this time and it was a bit too blatant haha! I think as a non-singer, its a bit of a point of insecurity, so I feel that tuning vocals (maybe sometimes too much) is better than a fully natural take - I will push to work on this though!

I so totally get that! It’s something about how the way we interpret our voices from inside our skulls sounding completely different than what it sounds like to everyone else. Which is why it seems that everyone hates how their voice sounds recorded. It just sounds wrong!

I’ve generally noticed the tuning on your vocals - the obvious pitch correction would sound at home on pop punk, which is why I think it stands out here more. To repeat, not a knock! Your production is great, but I’d love to hear more of your natural voice come through. (And yeah, I get this as well - took me the better part of a decade to start liking my voice without major processing).

I’d also maybe call bullshit on calling yourself a “non singer”. It’s really difficult to get as good of results as you get using pitch correction without good input smile

Love your work! Can’t wait to see where you go next.

dude you are so stupidly professional not sure what you are doing on this site with us wankers wink

i love fade outs and anyone who doesn't like them can come over and i will fight them becau.... *voice fading*

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