Day 3: The Heart of Life
This was supposed to be music week, but I got distracted by jewelry yesterday. I thought I’d do an instrumental cover of one of my favorite John Mayer songs, but it sounded weird without the voice melody– so I sang along with it at the last minute. It’s not terribly impressive, because um, I’m not a boy, and this is not a good key for me. I guess this just means I’ll also have to do something complimentary to my voice this week. That’s thrilling I guess.
The rhythm on this song was really tricky for me, and not easy to translate into piano. I think I fucked up the baseline a bit; oh well. Mostly I wanted to do this because the lyrics seem pretty apropos for life lately.
I hate to see you cry
Lying there in that position
There’s things you need to hear
So turn off your tears and listen
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love makes it all turn around
I know it won’t all go the way it should
But I know the heart of life is good
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