Orla Gartland
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[writing something every day] day 6: no tarot card
🕑 Added 2025-12-07 19:25:43 +0000 UTC
AND SO WE CONTINUE ON. I'm enjoying this
hey SDC : ) uploading 2 of these today as missed posting yesterday - I was flying to new york! (chic)
it's cold but sunny which I really likeanother 'slap on a beat and jam over it' idea for you here. I really can't recommend it enough. also jumped on bass for this one.. I'm as much of a bassist as most guitarists who pick up bass are but it's great writing tool
I say this a lot so forgive any deja vu but my favourite thing about writing on bass is the ambiguity between the major + minor! leaving space for interpretation there can lead to some interesting moments (vs. writing on guitar/piano where you're giving yourself a lot more chordal information to factor in which in turns affects the vocal melody you end up writing). similar to writing with drums, bass also usually leads to me writing more rhythmically
feedback welcome in the comments, if anything comes to mind for you
lyrics:
no tarot card could tell you this
is not the future I predicted
do you think I should be grateful?
see back then I was barely there
all of the roads led me to
staring at your face
across the table
come as you are
see I don’t bite
but you make me angrier
the more you try to hide
so will you own it?
or will you run?
tell me that you love him
in a way I never could
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LOVE YA
your song mama,
OGx
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Comments
Greta Frigerio
will you own it or will you run! reminded me of my own lyric in hashtray :)
Jordan Stowell
Welcome back to NYC! As a guitarist who also owns a bass… it really is fun to use it as the starting instrument sometimes as I feel like I have fewer habits that I default to when trying to write.
