Dear "Riccled"...

Your song, "What Is This Life", was quite arresting. The mood and feel of the music reminded me of Pink Floyd's hypnotic track, "Us and Them", from their "Dark Side of the Moon" album, only with a laid-back, country kind of vibe.

Your lyrics are another matter altogether! I agree with you that the lyrics are "funny" because of the scenes they describe, but what struck me the most was how your rhymes tied things together:

"The rain was falling down my roof
The house I'd hoped that was waterproof..."

And then...

"The next door neighbor
Struggling with his bike
A strong wind gustin' all around
Thinkin' when to strike"

I found those lines rather neat, as they observe little slices of life that sum up the tone of the song, which for me seems to be about the small struggles with fate, with those annoying, sometimes maddening obstacles that seem to crop-up in our path even when we're not asking for anything in particular from life...

Sometimes things pile-up on us so swiftly and implacably that we end up scratching our heads and asking ourselves, "What Is This Life?", not in despair, but with exasperation of the "Why me?" kind.

On the production side, I really like the choral accompaniment. The "ooo's" sounded like an actual female voices.

All in all, it's a memorable song that "freezes time", or slows it down just enough to enable us to examine how absurd our existence is, but only now and then.

LOREN (a.k.a. "bluage")

"Music is what feelings sound like."-- borrowed from a Cakewalk Music Creator forum member, "Mamabear".