Melodies of need

Songwriting was my hobby for more than 20 years while I lived in Norway. This is my first attempt at writing lyrics in English, luckily with my wife as co-writer.

We started working with on song late in the summer of 2021, before we had even met in real life.

I’m not an adept instrumentalist or vocalist, and not much to speak of as a producer. I believe my talent is to create new alloys of music and words. Therefore, I’ve always called my recordings sketches, meant as a mere indication of a professional recording could have been.

I like creating contrasts and stretch limits, melodically, harmonically, and rhythmically. My old colleague Halvard Danielsen, who was kind enough to help me with the mixing here, said some of the guitar harmonics are challenging.

He’s probably right. I’m not much of a lawbreaker in my daily life, so I enjoy being a little naughty when it comes to the musical rules 🙂

Lyrics

Enveloped in a velvet dream
She’s the pattern of my theme
I’m weaving melodies of need
Around her body, then concede
When the early morning wakes me like a scream

Eat the leaden Tuesday light
Drink the freeze or flee or fight
Feeling shattered, act the part
Hide the hunger in my heart
Needing nothing but the one who’s out of sight

Missing moments touch my soul
Lacking laughter leaves a hole
Absent eyes can’t see the shadow of my fear

Cannot breathe without her in my life
Cannot bear the struggle and the strife
I will bleed until she heals my heart

She’s placing seashells on the shore
Fingers numb, her mind is raw
Feeling time is running out
Hope is strangled by her doubt
Needing someone there to fill her sweetest core

But this ocean will divide
Let my whisper be her guide
To the secret place where she’ll be truly loved

In the world we will invent
She’s my blueprint of intent
To walk the sands until I find
The desert island of her mind
Her hidden senses filled with snapshots of our scent

Missing moments make me grow
Lacking laughter lets me glow
Absent eyes will see my beacon in the dark

I can breathe when she completes my life
I can bear the struggle and the strife
I can bleed until she hears my heart