Songwriting

So I must admit, it’s always been a dream of mine to be a singer. I love to sing, I love hearing other people to sing, I just love music in general. I used to write songs when I was a teenager. I think that the poetry classes that I’ve taken relate to music. The rhythm in poetry is similar to the rhythm in songs. Songs, however, rely more on notes. Poems rely on the actual rhythm of the words. For my writing poetry class I tried to turn the following song chorus into a poem.

   Trip

Trip up and catch yourself but you can’t,

ever know the things I did not mean to do it,

trip up and catch yourself,

trip up and catch yourself,

loves bent but trust me I never meant,

to fall and hurt you again and again,

trip up and catch yourself.

The song relies so much on notes that speaking it does not do it justice. This is why I could never work as a poem. This concept at first frustrated me, turning me off from trying to write poetry. It wasn’t until fall semester was over that I truly appreciated poetry. Surprisingly, this did not come from my Poetry 1 class, but from my college writing and British Lit classes, with Dr. Gurney. His explanations of the poems and meters made me sea poetry in a new light. Poems are music with out notes. They rely on rhythm, flow, beat and meter, much like music.

I think that I’ll keep writing songs as well as poetry. I’m not going to try to turn and songs into poems anytime soon. Some things are just better left alone.

Coheed and Cambria Concert

So there is an upcoming Coheed and Cambria Concert, February 13th at the Excel Energy Center in St.Paul MN. I think this would be a perfect Valentines Day present for my boyfriend to bring me to. In case you haven’t heard of them, Coheed and Cambria is an amazing progressive rock band that rocks my socks off, led by front singer Claudio Sanchez.

There latest album is Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

the sequel to their album Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness.

They are great contemplations of amazing lyric performance, riveting instrumentals, and intriguing lyrics. From No World For Tomorrow, the songs “Feathers”, and “The Running Free” are able to contain catchy upbeat tunes without sounding like most other songs on the radio today. I attended the premiere of The Running Free at Warped Tour 2007, and thoroughly enjoyed the combination of uplifting energy and rock attitude.