And what most people don't know is that I am a lyricist more than anything. I may not be able to play much on piano and guitar, and none at all on drums, but I love writing lyrics that just make you fall in love with a song.
There are so many lyricists that get that.
Like Chris Carrabba, lead singer of Dashboard Confessional, gets it.
So many of his songs have that impact where the listener's just left thinking "That's what I am feeling right now," or "I wish I could say that to my girlfriend and make it sound like he just sang it."
"My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me. So won't you kill me, so I die happy. My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, or wear as jewelry. Whichever you prefer." - Hands Down
"Well as for now I'm gonna hear the saddest songs and sit alone and wonder how you're making out. But as for me I wish that I was anywhere with anyone making out." -Screaming Infidelities
"How the girls can turn to ghosts before your eyes and the very dreams that lead to them are keeping them from dying. And how the grace with which she walked into your life will stay with you in your steps, and pace with you a while, for so long, so long." -So Long, So Long
"I am vindicated, I am selfish, I am wrong. I am right, I swear I'm right, swear I knew it all along. And i am flawed, but I am cleaning up so well. I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself, so clear..." -Vindicated
Also, there are lyricists like John Vesely, who can make me laugh, cry, and laugh so much I cry, all in one song. His words make me feel like they came straight from an angel, and i am being so serious!
"I know i'm not the best for you, but promise that you'll stay, cuz if i watch you go, you'll see me wasting, you'll see me wasting away, cuz today, you walked out of my life, cuz today, your words felt like a knife, I'm not living this life. Goodbyes are meant for lonely people standing in the rain and no matter where I go, it's always pouring all the same." -Like A Knife
"Hold your breath because tonight will be the night that I will fall for for you over again don't make me change my mind, or I won't live to see another day, I swear it's true because a girl like you is impossible to find, you're impossible to find. This is not what I intended, I always swore to you I'd never fall apart. You always thought that I was stronger. I may have failed but I have loved you from the start." -Fall For You
"Waiting for your call I'm sick, call I'm angry, call I'm desperate for your voice listening to the song we used to sing in the cars you remember butterfly, early summer is playing on repeat just like when we would meet, like when we would meet. I was born to tell you I love you. And I am torn to do what I have to to make you mine. Stay with me tonight." -Your Call
"The whispers turn to shouting. The shouting turns to tears. Your tears turns into laughter and it takes away our fears. so you see, this world doesn't matter to me. I'll give up all I have to just to breathe the same air as you 'til the day that I die. I can't take my eyes off of you." A Twist In My Story
These are only a few of the amazing lyricists that I respect and look up to in the profession. And these are only a few examples of their amazng talent for putting words with their already great music.
I encourage you to look up these bands and listen to all their music. It's amazing what lyrics add to song, especially when put in the right combination.
I'm going to end with an amazing quote from John...
"All I had to say is goodbye. We're better off this way. We're better off this way." -Goodbye
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