RUSS: [on drums] Hey, so guys, I just wrote a new song and I’m pretty proud about it and I thought that maybe we could run through it a couple of times.
OMID: [on guitar] Cool, let’s hear it.
RUSS: Well, I don’t have any music for it yet — all I have are the words and lyrics. But I wrote most of it last night and I started thinking that it really has potential — With the right melody, and if we were to record it, and get some funding and a little distribution, we could probably get it out there and I don’t think we’d have any problem getting it played on KROQ or whatever.
JOHN: [on bass] Okay, well I’m sure we could come up with something. What’s the tempo?
RUSS: It’s a slower-tempo song. Kinda like this [plays drums]
GAM: [on guitar] A ballad? That’s an interesting choice for a debut song.
RUSS: Well it doesn’t have to be the debut necessarily, but since we weren’t recording anything…
JOHN: That’s a pretty slow beat. [plays bassline at double-time] How’s this?
RUSS: That’s a good riff. I dunno if it’ll work for the song though. I’ve never written a song this way before — what’s the best way to do this?
GAM: Well maybe you could read the lyrics and once we get a sense for the melody, then we could throw together some tunes.
RUSS: Just read the song?
OMID: Yeah, just do the beat, then read the first line and we’ll start working around it.
RUSS: Okay. [plays drums] “I gotta say that I love you girl…”
OMID: That’s an A-minor. Hang on. Take two. Start the beat again and we’ll do this in A-minor.
RUSS: I don’t know how to play the drums in A-minor — do I have to do anything special?
GAM: No, you just have to sing the lyrics once we get a handle on the melody. We’ll work through it in A-minor.
HEART ATTACK
Words and Lyrics by Russ Carney of America
copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved
I gotta say that I love u girl,
U’re the greatest in the whole wide world.
I wanna hold u in my loving arms
And feel the warmth of ur tender charms.
Can’t u see that I’m on my knees,
I want to be with u forever, please.
Cuz I really want to be with u,
I wanna spend my whole life with u
CHORUS
I don’t really know just what I’d do
If I couldn’t spend my life with u
I really need to learn just how to act
This kind of love is like a heart attack.
I don’t really know just what I’d do
If I couldn’t spend my life with u
I really need to learn just how to act
This kind of love is like a heart attack.
RAP INTERLUDE:
Dope! With a positive connotation
I’m loving u with the sweet imagination
Give you all my loving and u know that I’ll be strong
If u let me love u girlie, all night long.
I want to take u to my private hide-away
And I have only one more thing to say
When I hold you close to me and take u in my arms
I feel ur tender charms, baby all night long!
JOHN: He was a pretty shitty drummer.
OMID: Yeah, totally. And did he kick three people out of a four-person band? Can you do that?
GAM: I don’t think so. This is *my* garage. So shall we get back to jamming?
[They start playing again; the song they play sucks about as bad as Heart Attack.]
