Everyday Songwriter

Christian songwriter Joel Payne wrote an interesting article on collaboration on theCrossing Songs website and he quoted something I wrote on Beatles Songwriting Academy. I guess that makes me an ‘authority’. Go me!

Read Joel’s post here, and mine here.

Even cooler, Tom Slatter interviewed me on IndieSongwriter.Net on the process of writing Let’s Build An Airport. He was kind enough to say

Let’s Build An Airport, is one of my favourite pop songs from the last couple of years

Read the interview here

Sometimes you just get hung up on a song and you can’t stop listening to it. For me that song is Magazine by David Bazan. It’s a song by his old band Pedro The Lion, but my favourite version is the one from Live at Electrical Audio which you can download for free here

Here’s a live version

And here’s the lyrics

This life is metaphysical
And on the one side, on the one side
The bad half live in wickedness
And on the other side, on the other side
The good half live in arrogance
And there’s a steep slope, with a short rope
This life is metaphysical
And there’s a steady flow, moving to and fro

Oh, look you’ve earned your wings
Are you an angel now or a vulture?
Constantly hovering over
Waiting for a big mistake

Oh, my God, what have I done?
Oh, my God, what have I done?

Wouldn’t you love to be
On the cover of a magazine?
Healthy skin, perfect teeth
Designed to hide what lies beneath

I feel the darkness growing stronger
As you cram light down my throat
How does that work out for you
In your holy quest to be above reproach?