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[Untitled] (Obscure and Awsm song) FINALLY PLAYING!

awsmpossum's picture
Podcast: 

This is an Obscure_One and awsmpossum original. Awsm on vocals and Obscure on guitar and harmony. We don't have a name for the tune or for us as a duo, so if you have any ideas, let us know.

She was young
when she heard screaming from her walls
not too young
to not yet feel respoinsible
she'd been talking
for so long her voice was sore
she was waiting
for her words to matter more

She stopped speaking
when her daddy moved away
she tried so hard
coudln't find the words to say
I love you daddy
I love you most of all
and I believe you
when you say it's mommy's fault

No one knows what it means
to be so young today
no one sees what it is
to be so wrong today

Love to daddy
was the only love she'd give
so life with mommy
was so difficult to live
but then he died
and some truth came to the light
she couldn't figure out
which one of them was right

No one knows what it means
to be so wrong today
no one sees what it is
to be so lost today

Suddenly
all of her memories had changed
she was forced to reevaluate her pain
and since he'd gone
she would never know what's true
forgiving either
was impossible to do

No one knows what it means
to be so lost today
no one sees what it is
to be alive today

awsmpossum's picture

gg!

Help!
It won't stop buffering... :(

obscure_one's picture

Typos: not too young to not

Typos:

not too young
to not yet feel responsible

she tried so hard
couldn't find the words to say

imagine's picture

First, make sure that the

First, make sure that the keyword is "podcasts," not just "podcast," so that it will show up. (I edited this for you.)

I've had the buffering problem before, and it was because I had posted my song under "blog entry" instead of "podcast." I'm not sure what this is posted under, but that may be your problem.

Good luck! I can't wait to hear this again. It's a beautiful song.

miss_literal's picture

This is so beautiful. And

This is so beautiful. And obscure, very well-written

................
~miss lit~

awsmpossum's picture

Thanks (and just so you

Thanks
(and just so you know, we wrote it together...)

offreadin's picture

This is

This is uber-awesome-stupendous! I totally see this as becoming billboards top ten or something like that. You harmonize very well, and I just love this song!!!

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of s***,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the s*** in the wastebasket.”

Schila's picture

Is it normal...

That i am hearing this with the voices as high as someone who enhaled helium? If it is supposed to be that way nice!
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