Easygoing Easy Gone

My shot at disney star/billboard 100:

Easygoing Easy Gone!

first there was the time when you went out with all of your friends

came back with a hickey on your neck

did you really believe you could keep me in the dark

then there was the day I was standing out in the rain

while the fog blocked the window pane

so I couldn’t see you making out in his car

We’ll I’ve been

easygoing but I’m easy gone

you had me once you should’ve held on

I’m taking off before you break my heart

call me after school you’re upset about something

you’re best friend said, so much going through your head

and you need to talk to someone you can trust

but I know you found out the other guy’s sleeping around

tough luck and the phone’s hung up

doesn’t feel so good to be left in the dust

We’ll I’ve been

easygoing but I’m easy gone

you had me once you should’ve held on

I’m taking off before you break my heart

(easy going easy gone)

where did we go wrong?

Easygoing easy gone

na na na na

at a party last night I decided something had to be done

you’ve just been treating me wrong

so I’m going out with next cute girl that I meet, yeah!

Final Chorus

VERSE: G F C am F C G F C am F E7

CHORUS 1: am F C G C C/B am F G C

CHORUS 2 + 3: am F C G C C/B am F G am F G C C/B am F G

BRIDGE: C G am F

Semester Retrospect Pt. 1

- Valley Bridge

- Arizona

- Fjord (w/Jonathan)

- Dire Straits Copy

- Tell Me That It Isn’t True (Cover)

- Bridge to Jeremy’s song

- Easy Going Easy Gone

- Novel With A Key

- Ogre Song

- If You’ll Climb

Lyrics Soon 2 Come

Analyze/Write

I've decided to analyze a sound more so than a specific song for this assignment. My three favorite Dire Straits recordings (in no particular order) are "Sultans of Swing", "Tunnel of Love", and "Romeo and Juliet". The songs have a lot in common and I've sought to recreate the sound by taking apart the elements and them piecing them back together.

common threads:

-Key: F major/d minor

- Primarily use of I IV V VI chords

-Speak/sing vocals

-fairly long length

-Lyrics: reference to performance/song, in "Tunnel" and "Romeo" use of dialogue, changing person - use of first second and third

TUNNEL OF LOVE

intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/Solo/verse/Chorus/(quiets down)bridge/outro

ROMEO AND JULIET

intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/verse(quiets down)/chorus/verse/outro

SULTANS OF SWING (structurally different)

intro/verse repeats

MY LYRICS:

Ain't No Love at First Sight

out there by the shoreline see the silhouette as she walks away
well I guess the commotion started sometime yesterday

no difference in our words, yknow it gets to be the same charade

and I’m tired of the cut throat playing every night for the masquerade

the one with the glass in her hand and the pretty laugh say

“hey baby how’d you like to dance?”

the circumstances tonight too good to last

as I wander down the dingy streets where I used to play

rhythm guitar with a gipsy band

I wonder if I kept you would we be home in the candle light

instead of searching desperate lands?

the one with the glass in her hand and the pretty laugh say

do you see all the boys there looking your way

said this ain’t no love at first sight

but we can act that way

didn’t think I’d miss you after

a couple drink and some time alone

now I know that real disaster

is that I didn’t turn and walk you home

the one with the glass in her hand and the pretty laugh say

do you see all the boys there looking your way

said this ain’t no love at first sight

but we can act that way