Full Time Blues


In reply to a comment I made on one of Mario's songs, he suggested I post a few of my/our older songs. Many of them I cannot because they were created and recorded using a different music creation program.


Just a question: If I simply added an RT or Drum Track from BIAB to those songs, would that be considered "gaming" the forum? If so, I'll discard that idea.

Most of them I cannot redo in BIAB as some of them have rhythms and bass tracks for which BIAB has nothing even vaguely similar. And those songs are fully dependent on those rhythms and specific bass lines.


Anyway, this is one Di sand I wrote back in 2011 using BIAB v 11.5. I no longer have the file with the track info, but I assure you every track is from BIAB. That will probably be obvious.

I did all the vocals, including two harmony parts (I'm not a very accomplished harmony singer) and the "ooooooh"s. I was new at mixing then. The vocal is a tad too loud, and the drums could have been just a little more forward in the verses. But I thought the piano track came out pretty decently.


Lyric

Full-Time Blues

©2011 Alan D. David, BMI / Diana Bowers, BMI

(v)
Why must I love you, why can't I say goodbye
Every time I try to leave, I can't and I don't know why
My mind tells me it's time to go, but my heart just won't comply
This constant war torments me, every day I live a lie

CHORUS
A tangled web of heartache, a case of full-time blues
No color in my rainbows, just the darkest hues
I know I ought to move along, I'm reading all the clues
But here I sit with the full-time blues

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

(v2)
I pack my suitcase, every morning in my mind
Thinking how I'll say goodbye, and leave you here behind
But when it's time to play my part, no courage can I find
I always end up speechless, and my memory goes full blind

CHORUS
A tangled web of heartache, a case of full-time blues
No color in my rainbows, just the darkest hues
I know I ought to move along, I'm reading all the clues
But here I sit with the full-time blues

(v3)
I guess I'll always, be here by your side
Smiling on the outside, but crying deep inside
I'll learn to live with, these feelings I must hide
My head no longer matters, it's my heart I must abide

CHORUS
A tangled web of heartache, a case of full-time blues
No color in my rainbows, just the darkest hues
I know I ought to move along, I'm reading all the clues
But here I sit with the full-time blues

Last edited by Al-David; 05/16/23 10:10 AM.
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