The Truth - Writers Forum

whoneedsactions · 02-02-2006, 11:21 AM

I just saw someone with a song up called The Truth (I liked it but I'm nobody) and it reminded me I wrote a song not long ago called The Truth. It's in G and I wish I could do more than strum when I'm singing...

G//G//G//G//C//C//C//C//G//G//G//G//C//C//C//C//D//D//C//C//C//C//C//C//G//G//G//

G
People will always
be trying to tell you
C
Their facts and their fantasies
believe what you will
G
There's this God, there's this guy
And he lives in the sky
C
There's a process and a plan
To a world down the pan
D
And in time it'll all be disclosed
C
And the truth is
The truth is
The truth is
G
that nobody knows

And you can look in the words
Of great thinkers of the past
All the science and theories
Their braincells could grasp
And they know what they've proved
And they will not be moved
And the future is bright
If they'd just get in right
And with knowlege our wisdom can grow
And the truth is
The truth is
The truth is
That no one can know

Now like anyone else
I've got my point of view
And for all that it's worth
It's all about you
Well I'll love it and I'll love it
As I fly high above it
And I'll seek for that way
Maybe come save the day
Wake the world from it's dream
With the scream that I love you all so...

It's no lie,
I'll just sit here and cry
Because nobody knows

thamior · 02-02-2006, 07:03 PM

I enjoyed it, it was cool I could see myself singing it, however the He in refernece to God and the Guy in refrence to God should be capatalised

Edit:
by the way your not a nobody....I always love comments, it makes me happy when new people comment....

Mystery · 02-03-2006, 07:37 AM

If you want a more advanced guitar pattern.

(5th string tab records)
Am/Am/Am/A#/AM/Am/Am/Am/Ab/Gm/Gm/Gb
Just something I had written down. I liked the lyrics but try to develop your instrumental pattern to fit the type of vocals, and giving it timings would help.

Tap your food steadily(aka every second 1 tap) and everytime you tap play 1 chord. This song can go far.

demon_ · 02-03-2006, 09:38 AM

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There's this God, there's this guy
And he lives in the sky

This just sounds like a cheezy rhyme....I thought anyway

Quote:

There's a process and a plan
To a world down the pan

This looked (or seems) like one of those desperate rhymes

Quote:

And in time it'll all be disclosed
And the truth is
The truth is
The truth is
that nobody knows

And I liked this alot

I don't play guitar but one of my friends and one of my cousins do and that looks simple(not that I'm sayin that in bad way, but it looks fun to try learn; that way). You're probably the person who plays guitar and uses vocals (damn you versitile people) so I could imagine doin' something other than strummin' is a bit difficult. I liked the story of the lyrics, but half the rhymes I didn't.... The flow was exellent; and I enjoyed this piece very much.

Good job,

Demon

edit: I know a Good Charlotte song "The Truth" but the story to it is a bit different.... It's kinda a piano song

thamior · 02-03-2006, 10:50 AM

extremely simple, but if you are one of those people I envy you...lol.

cellardoor · 02-03-2006, 12:33 PM

love it!

whoneedsactions · 02-04-2006, 04:27 AM

It's in 3 beat rhythm. Peo-ple will Al-ways be Try-ing, but I always love an excuse for an Am. My vocal range can go Leonard Cohen's Murder up to Nick Drake's Riverman (Am's easy to play and sing too!), but I like doing this in a sort of David Bowie/Ian Anderson way, all English but bluesy and cried out into the night with the voice of folky desperation.

It was written for my girlfriend's 7 year old who was getting confused by religious stuff from the Catholic school she goes to, the Bahai stuff from her mum's family and the science documentaries she loves on the TV and she was getting quite upset, and it was after an evening of explaining that I wrote it.

It's also supposed to be ambiguously agnostic and gnostic.

Thanks for the advice and stuff. I'll try to post more on other people's stuff too!

whoneedsactions · 02-04-2006, 04:46 AM

Oh, and you'll never stop me using cheesy rhymes. Beat me to death about it in the poetry forums, but when it's a song, I'll just leave it in. The song spills out and then it's written in the air, that's it. Alliteration and cheesy rhymes when it's direct and honest can stamp the song in your head, make you dance just for the meaning. Process, plan and pan are all sung in a sarcastic tone because it's fun.

thamior · 02-04-2006, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by whoneedsactions

Oh, and you'll never stop me using cheesy rhymes. Beat me to death about it in the poetry forums, but when it's a song, I'll just leave it in. The song spills out and then it's written in the air, that's it. Alliteration and cheesy rhymes when it's direct and honest can stamp the song in your head, make you dance just for the meaning. Process, plan and pan are all sung in a sarcastic tone because it's fun.

true, cliche's sneak in, and i a song its sometimes easier to pass by with them, but its always nice when you find something new, espcially lyrical is the ability to make some words rhyme that otherwise wouldnt.