Is It Time

[unit58studios]

IS IT TIMEV1There’s A Question On My MindThat I Keep Asking All The TimeAnd It’s Never Ever Far AwayWhen I Hold A Point Of ViewIts Always Seems To Come From YouAnd You’re Never Ever Far AwayCHORUSIs It Time To Own My MindAnd Take Back What I Gave AwayIs It Time To Take Back My MindIs It Time To Change My MindTo Take Back What I Gave AwayIs It Time To Take Back My MindV2God Knows I’ve Been TryingTo Make It So RightBut I Feeling HelplessAnother Lonely NightYou Keep PushingMe Further AwayIf I Don’t AgreeWith Everything You SayCHORUSBRIDGEI Gotta ThinkWhat I’m Gonna DoAm I Gonna SinkIn A World Without YouI’m Sliding DownHolding On TightIs It Too Late NowTo Make It AlrightCHORUSFINSongs For SaleWorldwide Copyright Owned By: Unit58 Music PublishingContact: Nick Redford – Managing DirectorTel No: (Outside UK) +44 (UK Only) 07949 246800Email : musicpublishing@unit58.com

[in2piano]

A question begs a question here.....What is the question that is on her mind?Need to answer the question...you gotta a good start here but just need a little more on this...Larry

[unit58studios]

Jul 6, 2009, 4:46pm, in2piano wrote:A question begs a question here.....What is the question that is on her mind?Need to answer the question...you gotta a good start here but just need a little more on this...LarryThe question is discussed in the chorus - but he is still deciding.Is it time to own my mindIs it time to change my mindIn real life a lot of questions never get answered so I ain't got one !!!!Sorry to leave you on the cliff there LarryNickwww.unit58.com

[watksco]

Aug 15, 2009, 10:41am, unit58studios wrote:Jul 6, 2009, 4:46pm, in2piano wrote:A question begs a question here.....What is the question that is on her mind?Need to answer the question...you gotta a good start here but just need a little more on this...LarryThe question is discussed in the chorus - but he is still deciding.Is it time to own my mindIs it time to change my mindIn real life a lot of questions never get answered so I ain't got one !!!!Sorry to leave you on the cliff there LarryNickwww.unit58.comHey Nick,All you've answered is that he is struggling with whether to chang his mind - about what? with whom? where? why? etc. etc.If someone has read the lyric and they haven't had these questions answered - then it would be a safe bet to say they haven't been answered to the readers/listeners satisfaction. Their satisfaction is paramount.On another note:1. I'd say that there is not sufficient story development from V1 to V2 2. V2 has a completely rhyming scheme to V13. V2 has a completely different rhythm structure (stressed sylable count and placement) to V1Just sayin....Scott

[unit58studios]

You obviously write to a very tight formula - I don't and wont. If you want to write 'stories' write a book Beginning - Middle - End What I am allowing the listener to do is raise their own interpretation and create their own answers questions. Its what comes out my head and I try to do as little messing as possible. I think there is too much intellectualizing on here Nick www.unit58.com

[watksco]

Aug 16, 2009, 6:30am, unit58studios wrote: You obviously write to a very tight formula - I don't and wont. If you want to write 'stories' write a book Beginning - Middle - End What I am allowing the listener to do is raise their own interpretation and create their own answers questions. Its what comes out my head and I try to do as little messing as possible. I think there is too much intellectualizing on here Nick www.unit58.comI'm just saying, I don't think you've given them enough to care yet. Needs some more specific imagery to entice the listener in enough for them to bother with putting their 'stuff' in your song.For Example:From Graceland (Paul Simon)She comes back to tell me she's gone,As if I didn't know thatAs if I didn't know my own bed,As if I'd never noticed,The way she brushed her hair from her foreheadWhen I hear this song I picture MY bed and MY wife brushing her hair - because Paul gave me some concrete images (from HIS world) that were somewhat specific - but leave me room to put MY stuff into it. He is an example of a great (IMO) writer. BTW discipline does not = formula writing and does not negate creativity (I believe it is quite the contrary).Anyway - good luckScott

[unit58studios]

I think you have to be true to your cause Scott and I am not on to slavishly follow rules though thats not to say I don't have a commercial eye on a tracks viability. If you start from the heart then thats what you should convey. If you start from the A-Z of Songwriting then thats what you finish up with too. Nick

[unit58studios]

Paul Simon hasn't told me why she left - do you know ?

[watksco]

Aug 17, 2009, 4:01am, unit58studios wrote:Paul Simon hasn't told me why she left - do you know ?The sond is about feeling lost and trying to find yourself... 'And my traveling companionsAre ghosts and empty socketsI'm looking at ghosts and empties' The point (destination) of the song is Graceland - where 'we both will be received' (or found).Why she left is irrelevant (in this song at least) - the loss itself is what is important 'And she said losing loveIs like a window in your heart,Everybody sees you're blown apart,Everybody sees the wind blow,'It's this loss - and feeling lost - that gives rise to the journey - and sends them 'bouncing into Graceland'.Scott

[unit58studios]

so he's got questions on his mind then !!!