Have You Ever – Layer 1

The song is coming along, but the path ahead is still frustratingly unclear for me. I am fairly certain that I like all parts of this song, but I am afraid that what I am actually trying to do is combine two separate songs and something about it just isn’t totally working for me. There’s one part, the verses of which all begin with “Have you ever…” and then this other part, which goes “You are never alone, that’s what you say to the empty hallway…”, over some pretty heavy guitars and drums and such. And I like this part, even though I’m not really happy with the singing yet. But all the same there’s something that feels oddly wrong about it somehow, as though you’re watching a movie and someone behind you changes the channels without warning.

So I think I’m going to cut out this hard second part. This includes the solo at the end of the song. Killing off something like this is never an easy task but sometimes you’ve just got to prune, I guess. I’m hoping that, having cut this song down, I will begin to recognize it and the correct version will start to resonate in my head and heart. Sometimes everything just works, like floating on air. But sometimes making a song seems really hard, like trying to swim in a swamp.

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