Matthew C Good : Musician, Web Developer, Hobbyist.

Man I really like this one. I hope you do too. It’s got fake drums and everything! I think this is song #17… I THINK. Not sure.
Firestorm
(Copyright 2007 Matthew C Good)
a multiple alarm
fire in a storm
some things never pass
I just count to ten
and take a breath again
the wrong things never pass
the right things never last
The water’s taking turns
with the fire as it burns
I don’t want you to know
I’m just taking stock
Counting what I got
I don’t want you to know
this wreckage in my soul
It’s like I forgot how to sing
while i was learning how to live
It’s like I forgot how to smile
while I was looking at myself again
Now there’s nothing left
but a couple moral debts
There’s nothing for me here
I’d fight this if I could
If I thought it’d do some good
There’s nothing for me here
Now that you’ve disappeared
It’s like I lost control
It’s like I didn’t know
We were lost before we started
It’s like I wasn’t there
As if you didn’t care
It’s like you broke my heart
Like it wasn’t hard
The rain is coming down
It’s washin me out
I’m still burning up
My surroundings start to spin
as the dizziness sets in
I think i need to breathe
But I’m crying convulsively
It’s like I forgot how to sing
While I was learning how to live
You know we were lost at sea
before we ever started
It’s like you shoulda known
i was gonna let you go.
A multiple alarm
fire in a storm
a loose metaphor,
A kind of cold war
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I heard a song by the band Blonde Redhead and I was immediately inspired – reallllllly cool stuff. If I had more time, I’d produce it a bit like that, with really cool ambient guitar swells in the background to give you that slightly weightless overwhelming feeling. Man it was good. I wanted to put guitars and piano in this one, but i ran out of time on the guitars, and i already used my synth thinger for the rhodes, so the piano was out.
oh and i think the ending tag is a direct ripoff of Kamera by wilco. dangit.