"Walls"

I wrote a lot of silly songs when I was a pre-teen and a teenager.  Most of them aren’t that great (but I had a lot of fun at the time!), but this week’s song is the first song I wrote that I felt was decent.  This recording is a tribute to a much younger me.  I guess I was obsessed with the major-major seventh sonority at the time (not sure why, but it is a harmonic fixture of the song).  I also use a major no-no in my harmonic “progression” (the ii goes to I7—for shame!).  I generally dock my students for doing this sort of thing, but it happens in some pop music and well, in tribute to my 16-year old self that didn’t know any better, the succession remains.

Hope you like this week’s song:

Music and lyrics written by Victoria Malawey © 2013 All Rights Reserved

Title: "Walls”

Written March 1993

Lyrics:

Walls, walls

I work within my walls

No society to bother me

Seclusion at its highest form

My walls

Old room with new sounds

My chamber with a purpose

Memories locked in green

Walls, I work within my walls

My walls

Four structures leading me to myself

The walls which inspire me

No one enters or goes out

Just me and my walls

Within these walls there is something special

Sitting here right beside me

God he guides me in this journey

Within my walls

My walls

A high of life trapped within these walls

No one views but me

Would one believe if I explained it?

No, only colors they’d remember

Walls, I work within my walls