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| Title: |
Virginia in the Rain |
| Artist: |
Gabriel Keller
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| Description: |
A folk-pop (?) sounding thing about time passing and that sort of thing.
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| Notes: |
I wrote this when a few months after I got back from that trip I told you about in the info of Don't You See and it is, more or less, about that trip. We did, among other places, go to Virginia and it did rain and it was amazing. It was wonderful, it was beautiful. Not just the rain, and not particularly Virginia, the whole trip was an amazing experience. (Virginia in the Rain was just an anology, but i think its a catchy title).
When I got back home, there was a point when I realized that it was gone and I could never relive it. And when I got back, for a while, i was really confused, I think (and im analyzing myself here) that the trip was such an overload on my mind, meeting all these new people, going all these places. It was a start of school trip and hardly anyone knew eachother. Plus, I had just returned from a year trip to Peru. But it was wonderful and im so glad i got to write this song about it.
The melody just came to me. I had the lyrics (only the first verse and chorus, I wrote the rest several months later) and it came to me. Well, I went through some versions of the chorus and changed the original lyrics a bit, but yeah...The middle eight thing ("and it hurts") also came in one go.
Oh and the range of this song is pretty big. My voice is a bit strained on some notes, so try to hear past that and tell me what you think.
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| Lyrics: |
It sounds so appealing, sometimes
when I am feeling just fine
and it's a cloudless sky today
The skies are clearing, and it
feels so demeaning to think
I might forget it all one day
Chorus:
Now I've tripped, falling into routine
and she's slipped, fading from my dreams
and the raindrops, emotion dripping from the blue
now the rain's stopped and I long to return to
Virginia in the rain
'cause here its not the same
The realization that yesterday's gone
hold me closer, hold me closer, hold me
I remember the little things
Chorus:
The green grass, the flicker of the fire
the beautiful laughs,
the first time i sat beside her
and time goes by, things change and dissapear
and I know why,
it's so we'll love them while they're here
Bridge:
But it hurts,
'cause the feelings still there
and it burns,
because nothing can compare
and it hurts!
Chorus:
And I,
I was so alive
in Virginia in the Rain
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