Question:
Saturday night- or rather, Sunday morning- I came up with the first four lines of this song at a time which falls somewhere between four and five AM. Other than that...
Inspiration: Coldplay
Style: Kind of emo, kind of indie. Plenty of acoustic guitar, or humbucker/blues.
Note: The first four lines are meant to be played and sung cheerfully, and then the song adopts a lower, more pensive tone.
Perfect
by
Jason Smith
Syncopated
Everyone is jaded
Nothing’s dated
It’s only retro, honey honey
You sit inside yourself
And you weep for an hour.
Thirty-six, forty-two, hut, hike...
Everything is okay, okay
You tell yourself…
Everyone around you
Seems so bitter and sour
But you’re perfect.
You’ve got your flare-legs
A button-down and a Timex, baby
But you’re perfect.
You don’t have time for
All the little people
They’re so below you
They’re not retro
They don’t drive your car
Everything is fixed
Everything is ready now
Nothing out of place
Straight hair and a separated brow
Brown jacket and black shoes
Nobody has more style than you do
Answer:
Why am I not surprised that you write songs about fashion?
Answer:
Haha! That is an excellent question. Though it is more of an anti-fashion song, I suppose. Analogies and all that.