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I've always been iffy about writing love songs, so I've been putting off making one for Panda. But when I wrote the song for Jace, I asked myself, "What is it that makes love songs so hard to write?" I figured if I could do it for someone else, I ought to be able to do it for the person I love, too.
Now, I've written a love song before, but even now, I find it sort of embarrassing to sing because it's so... elementary, I suppose. Here's what I don't like about love songs.
1. They are full of meaningless platitudes and "sweet nothings."
2. They tend to recycle these vague sentiments.
3. They do this in such a way that they don't seem sincere and instead come across saccharine.
There are some people that do love songs well. Ironically, Ben Gibbard, for one. I like these love songs because:
1. They're full of fresh imagery and new ideas.
2. Even if they're over-the-top, they're incredibly interesting and moving.
3. They're visceral.
So it's not that love songs are inherently hard, they just tend to be boring, and I don't like falling into those boring lyrical trends. I don't like to exaggerate my feelings and use hyperbole for something so important. Granted, poetic hyperbole is another story; I just don't want to lie and say things I can't fully commit to.
So that was the challenge with this. I wanted to write something meaningful, visceral, and something I could honestly commit to.
When Panda and I met, there was an instant attraction. We didn't plan on it, we didn't even really act on it for a long time. I was in a relationship at the time, and Panda had just gotten out of a rotten one, so we weren't interested in such a thing. However, I found his scent appealing enough to steal his hat from time to time. After I got out of my relationship with Roo, I had hoped to be single for at least a little while, but that wasn't in the cards. Now, we're engaged, and I can't really imagine spending my life with anyone else, so I suppose that's how it goes :3
I wanted to write him a song he would like, so I approached it from an industrial rock angle, which is hard because I don't know a lot about it. I've listened to enough of it to recognize some patterns and get the gist of it, but I'm not sure this song does the genre justice. Even so, I needed to approach this with the dark imagery the genre favors. Most industrial love songs involve obsession or lust or some other unhealthy aspect of relationships, and Panda has told me he'd love it if I wrote something like that for him. I can't, though; not only is it a poor representation of what love really is, it's also just not true to my own feelings. However, I figured I could pull from that imagery and still get what I wanted to say across :3 I'm afraid I may have fallen into a couple of the pitfalls I'd hoped to avoid, but oh, well x3
So, without further ado, here you go, Panda. Rie Ruv Rue! <3
Lyrics:
If this is doom, then I'll be done in,
Because I'm captivated by your dusk.
It sings to my darker side,
And when we collide, I am shaken.
You entertain my howl,
You navigate my stray.
You invigorate my foul.
You know how to make me stay.
You have my philos, love.
You give me eros in spades.
There are no conditions.
You are bound to my stains.
Our love is greater than light,
Because we're bound by the pheromones,
Every rung of genetic code
down to the smallest quark.
More precious than God,
More insistent than heaven.
Because salvation is fleeting
but an atom is forever.
If this is fate, so mote it be, then,
Because I have no intention to flee.
I'll let go of the reigns,
As long as you remain, I am perfect.
You keep my criminal secrets,
You hold my temper in.
You are more than my soulmate.
You are my chemical friend.
Our love is greater than fate,
Because we're bound by the pheromones,
Every rung of genetic code
down to the smallest quark.
More precious than God,
More substantial than matter.
Because predestination is fleeting
but an atom is forever.
From the same meaningful dust,
Out of the nothingless void
Of the strongest potential,
A molecular bond.
Woven from the same thread
Into the marvelous fabric,
Stitched into corresponding shapes,
And made from two into one.
Our love is greater than fate,
Because we're bound by the pheromones,
Every rung of genetic code
down to the smallest quark.
More precious than God,
More substantial than matter.
Because predestination is fleeting
but an atom is forever.
Our love is greater than time,
Because we're bound by stardust,
Every line of quantum code.
Down to the zeros and ones.
More persistent than dust,
More alive than gray matter.
Because life is fleeting,
but an atom is forever.
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tempestpandaI've always been iffy about writing love songs, so I've been putting off making one for Panda. But when I wrote the song for Jace, I asked myself, "What is it that makes love songs so hard to write?" I figured if I could do it for someone else, I ought to be able to do it for the person I love, too.
Now, I've written a love song before, but even now, I find it sort of embarrassing to sing because it's so... elementary, I suppose. Here's what I don't like about love songs.
1. They are full of meaningless platitudes and "sweet nothings."
2. They tend to recycle these vague sentiments.
3. They do this in such a way that they don't seem sincere and instead come across saccharine.
There are some people that do love songs well. Ironically, Ben Gibbard, for one. I like these love songs because:
1. They're full of fresh imagery and new ideas.
2. Even if they're over-the-top, they're incredibly interesting and moving.
3. They're visceral.
So it's not that love songs are inherently hard, they just tend to be boring, and I don't like falling into those boring lyrical trends. I don't like to exaggerate my feelings and use hyperbole for something so important. Granted, poetic hyperbole is another story; I just don't want to lie and say things I can't fully commit to.
So that was the challenge with this. I wanted to write something meaningful, visceral, and something I could honestly commit to.
When Panda and I met, there was an instant attraction. We didn't plan on it, we didn't even really act on it for a long time. I was in a relationship at the time, and Panda had just gotten out of a rotten one, so we weren't interested in such a thing. However, I found his scent appealing enough to steal his hat from time to time. After I got out of my relationship with Roo, I had hoped to be single for at least a little while, but that wasn't in the cards. Now, we're engaged, and I can't really imagine spending my life with anyone else, so I suppose that's how it goes :3
I wanted to write him a song he would like, so I approached it from an industrial rock angle, which is hard because I don't know a lot about it. I've listened to enough of it to recognize some patterns and get the gist of it, but I'm not sure this song does the genre justice. Even so, I needed to approach this with the dark imagery the genre favors. Most industrial love songs involve obsession or lust or some other unhealthy aspect of relationships, and Panda has told me he'd love it if I wrote something like that for him. I can't, though; not only is it a poor representation of what love really is, it's also just not true to my own feelings. However, I figured I could pull from that imagery and still get what I wanted to say across :3 I'm afraid I may have fallen into a couple of the pitfalls I'd hoped to avoid, but oh, well x3
So, without further ado, here you go, Panda. Rie Ruv Rue! <3
Lyrics:
If this is doom, then I'll be done in,
Because I'm captivated by your dusk.
It sings to my darker side,
And when we collide, I am shaken.
You entertain my howl,
You navigate my stray.
You invigorate my foul.
You know how to make me stay.
You have my philos, love.
You give me eros in spades.
There are no conditions.
You are bound to my stains.
Our love is greater than light,
Because we're bound by the pheromones,
Every rung of genetic code
down to the smallest quark.
More precious than God,
More insistent than heaven.
Because salvation is fleeting
but an atom is forever.
If this is fate, so mote it be, then,
Because I have no intention to flee.
I'll let go of the reigns,
As long as you remain, I am perfect.
You keep my criminal secrets,
You hold my temper in.
You are more than my soulmate.
You are my chemical friend.
Our love is greater than fate,
Because we're bound by the pheromones,
Every rung of genetic code
down to the smallest quark.
More precious than God,
More substantial than matter.
Because predestination is fleeting
but an atom is forever.
From the same meaningful dust,
Out of the nothingless void
Of the strongest potential,
A molecular bond.
Woven from the same thread
Into the marvelous fabric,
Stitched into corresponding shapes,
And made from two into one.
Our love is greater than fate,
Because we're bound by the pheromones,
Every rung of genetic code
down to the smallest quark.
More precious than God,
More substantial than matter.
Because predestination is fleeting
but an atom is forever.
Our love is greater than time,
Because we're bound by stardust,
Every line of quantum code.
Down to the zeros and ones.
More persistent than dust,
More alive than gray matter.
Because life is fleeting,
but an atom is forever.
Category Music / Industrial
Species Panda
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 6.96 MB
I agree totally with your sentiments about love songs, and have avoided them myself because of it. I also agree about Ben Gibbard. I made someone cry once when they insisted Ben Gibbard was a flake who couldn't write a lasting song if you put a gun to his head. I played "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" on acoustic for them and they teared up. Of course, it didn't hurt that they were plastered...
Anyhoo... Great song, very personal, very sincere, very NIN! I love it.
Happy Valentines Day to the both of you! <3
Anyhoo... Great song, very personal, very sincere, very NIN! I love it.
Happy Valentines Day to the both of you! <3
The challenge with love songs - indeed, ALL good songs - is to make them incredibly specific, yet absolutely generic at the same time. There's a balancing act between fine detail and universality. In my world, it's the difference between songs from new musicals, which don't work outside the shows for which they are written, and classics such as "All the Things You Are" or "If I Loved You".
I really like your writing, which is why I have no doubt my other comment will come to pass sooner than later. :)
I really like your writing, which is why I have no doubt my other comment will come to pass sooner than later. :)
Very different, and interesting. I must say though, while you've certainly achieved what you were going for with the lyrics I think, it's not really my cup of tea. To make a really silly complaint, perhaps it's not dark enough for me x3
I'm a big fan of the way Muse does their love songs. It's always this mixture of positive and negative feelings. Either the song is about sort of the pain that love brings, "You could have ruled the whole world, and we could have had so much fun, but you blew it away. . ." or it's about this love in the face of adversity, totalitarianism, apocalypse, whatever. "If we live our life in fear, I'll wait a thousand years, just to see you smile again."
So I like that sort of thing, and sometimes I think about writing a song myself involving love as an obsession. A song about making a person the center of your universe, and then having that taken away from you, because all that's left is this fantastically horrible hate which is only possible because you still care about them despite everything. I've got the beginning of it written anyway, the love part of it heh
I do like your line here, "More precious than God," because that's flirting with the sort of thing that I'm talking about.
I'm a big fan of the way Muse does their love songs. It's always this mixture of positive and negative feelings. Either the song is about sort of the pain that love brings, "You could have ruled the whole world, and we could have had so much fun, but you blew it away. . ." or it's about this love in the face of adversity, totalitarianism, apocalypse, whatever. "If we live our life in fear, I'll wait a thousand years, just to see you smile again."
So I like that sort of thing, and sometimes I think about writing a song myself involving love as an obsession. A song about making a person the center of your universe, and then having that taken away from you, because all that's left is this fantastically horrible hate which is only possible because you still care about them despite everything. I've got the beginning of it written anyway, the love part of it heh
I do like your line here, "More precious than God," because that's flirting with the sort of thing that I'm talking about.
Well, like I said, I didn't want to make up a bunch of dark shit for the sake of being dark. This is a V-Day gift for my boyfriend, for whom I wanted to express my true feelings, not a project in writing something dark. However, since it's part of the nature of the beast, I needed to include at least SOME of that feeling in it, without having it overtake the song and ruin what I wanted to say. We're not in a relationship of love verses totalitarianism, nor obsession and lust, nor a failed, flawed sort of thing. This isn't some generic song about no one in particular. This is about my actual relationship with an actual person, so that stuff is just not the type of thing that would come into play :3
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