Orla Gartland
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demo 115: got you (that's my girl)
🕑 Added 2025-10-31 17:17:14 +0000 UTCSDC : boo! HAPpppPpppPPPYY haalllLLLlooowEEEeeeeEeEEEn! and happy last day of the month / demo day to all who celebrate
so I've had a gnarly cold all week and after a stealthy 11 hour sleep last night (RIP) I woke up this morning with a much clearer head. I'm not 100%, but so much better than before (I re-sang this demo and ABing it with the one from yesterday was like night & day lol no amount of EQ could remove the nasal tone of the original). aaanyway - my energy and voice being more than compromised this week I opted for a simple demo of a song I wrote last month, called 'got you' (or 'that's my girl'.. can't decide). had to be soft on myself and not expect tooOo much from this particular demo.. but all of that said I'm still proud of this and I hope you like it
so I said this when I uploaded a min or so of this as a voice memo last month but this is essentially a love song to my best friend. I'm obsessed with FRIEND SONGS at the minute and also with friendship in general? I have a couple of standOUT friends around me that have helped me through some Very Big Shit the last year or two and so in turn I've helped them back and thought a lot about how much I CHERISH them. why so many songs in the world about romantic love, why not more for our friends!!!!!!!!????
for the guitar nerds : this ones in D-A-D-F#-A-E. I wanted to try a song in open D that wasn't in the key of D ! so this one's in A (I think?) and having those ring-y out-y top strings in relation to a different core key is really fun to me. there's like 5 different ways I could produce this up w drums etc.. but does it need it? it could go big & hard (from chorus 2 onwards especially) but whether it should I'm between 2 minds on. thoughts welcome below, on that or the song in general : )
as always you can stream the demo from within the patreon site or mobile app (where u can also save offline) and patreon has seemingly chanGEEED the ability to add an attachment for download on a post (or is it hidden somewhere? can anyone help? thanks, love grandma). in the meantime u can download the file for this demo here
if you joined the SDC this month - thank you for helping me continue to do my dream job in an increasingly uphill industry. it's crazy out here and the SDC funds vitally help cover my monthly overheads for living + keeping my small business afloat! whether you've been here for a week, a month or several years now I genuinely couldn't be more grateful. thank you for chucking a little of your hard earned £ at this here lil songwriter girl
I hope the demos (and the knowledge that I'm out here doing this because of Y O U) gives you some well deserved warm fuzzies.
ok - lyrics below - and top tier patrons I'll drop a date for our next live stream/zoom hang in the next few days!
love love,
OG xxxxxxx
lyrics:
look at the path right in front of me
wondering which way I should go
try to blame my anatomy
always flapping like a bird on my own
another minor emergency
waiting for a knock at the door
talk it through like its therapy
what the hell else am I here for
see I mean it when I say
there’s no condition to this love
if a bus was coming for you
I would hope you know I’d jump
if a bear was stood behind you
I would look it in the eye
babe it’s a no brainer
I would always save your life
I have got you
we really know how to pick em out
sometimes I swear it’s a curse
table read of your messages
man that guy was really the worst
it’s a special kind of hell
to see you be in pain
but trust me it’s a superpower
having such a powerful brain
see I mean it when I say
there’s no condition to this love
if a bus was coming for you
I would hope you know I’d jump
if a bear was stood behind you
I would look it in the eye
babe it’s a no brainer
I would always save your life
I have got you
other lovers come and go
but I’ll never be on my own
cause that’s
MY GIIIIRRRRLLLLLLLL
see I mean it when I say
there’s no condition to this love
if a bus was coming for you
I would hope you know I’d jump
is it narcissistic telling you
you’re perfect as you are?
cause we’re kind of the same person
if you squint really hard
I have got you
x
Comments
Thomas Peeters
This is making me emotional, thank you! I love the lines "cause we’re kind of the same person / if you squint really hard", because I've noticed when the friendship is strong you do try to mimic the other person, usually subconsciously. But I had a friend recently tell me "this is how I'd behave with other friends and that works for them, but I also want to learn how to be yóúr friend" and I was so moved by that. Friendships are work too and I guess when you squint that's where you find the magic which results from that. Deliberate sameness if you will?
Abi
Back listening to orla demos in the library oh I feel like myself again🤩 Altho this is so cute I might cry
