Cody has chosen to concentrate on lyrics since he feels more comfortable singing what comes naturally. However, in February I was already thinking of a few ideas that we could have used for this song, depending on how the instrumental side of the composition turned out.
Some were quite complex and could have been researched and viewed in a different light to develop a story, like the cryptomnesia concept. The genuine idea behind cryptomnesia is people thinking that an idea is the product of the person’s own creation, while in reality it’s a recollection of something they’ve previously encountered. It’s considered a psychological phenomenon, and I was thinking of using the concept and applying it to a metaphor relating to technology and tying it in to a horror story of some type where memory is tampered with.
Others were emotional expression, like the people pleaser and battery life ideas. Depending on how the rest of the song sounded, both ideas could have been used with comedic effect, like mockery of such small problems.
The rest were completely random. I thought the permanent mass hallucination would be interesting to explore in the context of the concept of the matrix or something similar. Surfer satan originated from shirt design I was thinking of doing, in a similar style of this one shirt my dad has which has a retro car design with palm trees on the beach.
After having the song written and recorded, it made the most sense to write lyrics based on rhythm rather than melody, so I believe that is what Cody is working on.
I decided to try my own ideas out anyway, as an experiment and backup plan. Uploading this seriously pushed me out of my comfort zone. Nothing I post below this is anything I’m proud of, nor do I plan to use it unless I get a boost of confidence out of nowhere, but it displays a very rough idea. I know that in this clip my voice is shaky and too quiet, meaning the audio is muffled a little bit.
The structure is more of a poem than regular lyrics, not following a strict rhythm or melody and simply layering on top of an instrumental section.
The lyrics are simple, I thought of them while trying to weakly link the theme of a raven. The links are the omnivorous nature of ravens and ‘ravenous’.
Ravenous girl
You’re always tearing me apart
Yet you already know that
Knowing of my pain isn’t going to stop you, is it?
Ravenous girl
Why can’t you leave me be?
Just… find someone else to torture.
If I was to use this idea for the final version of the song, I would have to work on clear pronunciation and confidence in order to not stutter and speak at a sensible and clear volume.
Once again, I’m not proud of this in any way but I thought uploading even bad and embarrassing attempts would display that at least I tried pushing myself a little bit by working on something that I’m not so comfortable or familiar with.