This week's topic was the Vishuddha (Throat Chakra) which converts inner experience into expression. Was really down to the wire. Last few weeks I've gotten an instrumental 60% of the way there, then spent a ridiculous amount of time ideating lyrics, followed by rushing to track them and running out of time to do much else with the instrumental. Was determined to not need a late link so all sorts of weird shit remains in the final cuz I had to hit the export button to make the deadline
‹ lyrics
[VERSE]
I get a sinking feeling
Fate fell out of focus
I see meadow in chameleon
A shattered mirror glimmers broken
[PRE-CHORUS]
I've come to realize
[CHORUS]
All for nothing
Polished memories to dust
All for nothing
The silence will choose for us
[VERSE]
Melodies ring from the cliff
Each wave breaks in dissonace
A full moon sets the mind adrift
And the current pulls me under
[PRE-CHORUS]
I've come to realize
[CHORUS]
All for nothing
Polished memories to dust
All for nothing
The silence will choose for us
My goal is to write better lyrics this year so I've been following the process and frameworks from Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison.
‹ idea and narrative
Villa trip hop - throat chakra
1. Root – survival
2. Sacral – sexuality/creativity
3. Solar plexus – willpower
4. Heart – compassion
5. Throat – expression
6. Third eye – perception
7. Crown – pure awareness
Vishuddha - throat, expression
Refinery for experience - Refine the mind
• lower centers deal with survival, desire, emotion
• the heart integrates feeling and relationship
• the throat converts inner experience into expression
Ancient Indian cosmology had five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and space. Sound travels through space. Speech happens in space. So the throat chakra gets linked to the element where sound exists.
Don’t speak before thoughts are clear.
Clear speech requires clear thoughts.
After refinement, speech reveals the structure of consciousness
Silence clarifies speech
Narrative
Verse - Raw impulses
Chorus - insight, awareness
Raw impulses? (Both inputs and urges)
- Lust
- Sensory input
- "feeling and relationship"
- Ideas
- Seed planted, like inception?
-
Insight / Awareness
- inception -> follow through on planted action
- Integration by heart
OR:
Speaking before thoughts are clear
- swimming in experiences
- unable to process them all
- so many urges
Must speak with clear thoughts
Clarifying thoughts
Must speak with clear thoughts
Seeds that could be planted
- Partner isn't enough -> infidelity
- Life isn't enough -> burn down current life
- Idea -> Innovation
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Tricky because ideally it would be spoken. All of those prior are actions but this is "throat"
Things that could be spoken
- I object
- You were right
- I'm sorry
Maybe we combine the seed of infidelity with I'm sorry
narrative
Verse
Planting the seed that the current person isn't enough
- seeing an attractive person
- seeing someone more values aligned
- feeling slighted by them in a way they don't recognize
- them declining something you were really excited to do together
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Pre-chorus
Synthesizing information
Chorus
I'm sorry (that this is going to happen)
Verse
the act of infidelity
Pre-chorus
Synthesizing information
Chorus
I'm sorry (that this happened, I regret it)
I get a sinking feeling
That you’re not enough
I’ve come to realize
I’m sorry
I couldn’t resist
I broke the rules
I’ve come to realize
I’m sorry
lyrics
When I wake up
I get a sinking feeling
Fate was out of focus
Glimmer in a glance
- It wasn’t meant to be
- The one I choose wasn’t right
- It wasn’t fate
- Fate fell short
- Twist of fate
- Chance
- Meant to be
- written in the stars
- Other half
