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lexgroove
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Hi, I recorded this a few months ago, just looking for some feedback. Wrote it before the pandemic hit, just couldn't record it at the time. 

 

Time flies and leaves us stranded

Right where we never wanted to be

The lights are going crazy

And now we're all having blue dreams

 

Oh how the turntables

Oh how the turntables glisten

 

Tell me about your high ways

Come on you can be real with me

That was a long time ago

Things are not always as they seem

 

Chorus

 

Time flies and leaves us

We never wanted to be

Once you realize, its far too late

 

Chorus

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Gavin
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This has a great groove and by the end I was singing along under my breath - very catchy. I had some difficulty making out the words in places. Great arrangement and production. Really enjoyed it.

The chorus is still in my head 🙂

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Gary E. Andrews
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'Sending' words so they can be 'Received' is essential, to me, strategic to a Song's success. 
Your Structure seems strong, 'hitting' THE Hook/title plenty, to drive home that as the main idea, making it 'ear-worm' memorable on one hearing.
Words 'communicate', so reception is of strategic importance.
The volume of the vocal seems low, which causes it to be 'buried' in the mix, the Arrangement (instrumentation).
Enunciation may not be as good as it could be either. Prosody, 'marrying' a Lyric/Melody to the Arrangement is often a challenge.
A few 'flaws' in the communication like that, added to an obscure concept, may prevent a Song from being adequately Received, adequate to 'hook' listener interest.
A vocal is 'featured' in a Song. When someone is talking it is polite to listen. When someone is singing, the same is true. Arrangement should be supportive, letting the words communicate, harmonious with the vocal Melody. A percussive strike or guitar riff can 'step on' the vocal, and should not. All these things make a difference in whether the Lyric 'communicates'. 
I had trouble with much of your Song in regard to these matters.
Listening a second, and third time.

"Tell me, about your heartache!
Come on! You can be real with me!"
I think I got those two Lines right. Intriguing. Very conversational, a Singer-Character evident, speaking directly (First-Person) to a Love-Interest Character. It's late in the Song. I don't know if the Verses have set up so THE Hook sums up the storyline, makes sense of it all, or not.

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Gary E. Andrews
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stranded
never wanted to be
now
Oh! ??? Turntables! Turntables! Turntables!
Guitar riff
Tell me, about your heartache!
Come on! You can be real with me!
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Oh! ?? Turntables! 

never wanted to be
Oh! ??? Turntables!

 

Despite 1,000's of years of Songwriting humans have not exhausted the possibilities. There will always be another Song to be written. Someone will write it. Why not you? www.garyeandrews.com


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