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6.26.2007 Talk About You Talk About You was first recorded as a part of an acoustic EP that Ken and I recorded in my living room. It was written in the summer of 2003, when I was trying to figure out the purpose of life. Things, or lack of things, were happening in my life and I was trying to make sense of it all.You're wrong, I'm not lazy, I'm just waiting Talk about you all the time, pick up each and every sign So long you've had me waiting in my corner Leaves me feeling lost, it does, stretching out my arms because of you So very easily it’s found, so very pleasingly it sounds Forget what’s good and what is not, stuff yourself with all you got The things I should have seen, I say, the things that might have been, they say Well it’s easy to sit and criticize, when you won’t come down and join the fight The nights they go on running on My days are thinning there's growing doubt That my life is ever to be found And life sure would be good If I only understood Why you're making me a fool But all they ever do is talk about you Talk about you So very easily it’s found, so very pleasingly it sounds Forget what’s true and what is not, stuff yourself with all you got The things I should have seen, I say, the things that might have been, they say Well it’s easy to sit and criticize, when you won’t come down and join the fight Make me, make me a believer I'm ready to be a fool Make me, make a believer Make me, make a believer in the Things that might have been That I should have seen 'Cause my lot it grows But I still want more But I still want more But I still want more But I still want more And I still want more The nights they go on running on My days are thinning there's growing doubt That my life is ever to be found And life sure would be good If I only understood The makings of a fool But all they ever do is talk about you Talk about you This song was very much a fuel to get Jack going. Shane, Ken, myself and Randal on bass got together at Amp studios in NoHo and we tried out a few arrangements, and we settled on something that Randal really hit on, a Roadhouse Blues type feeling. Ken added much salt to the song with the A chord in the chorus, as well as the drop and build section in the middle on C. The rest sort of developed from there, and it was such a good experience that we decided to start Jack on it. The subsequent songs would be tougher, we'd find, but the energy in this song kept us going for a while. Lyrically, it was a reference to my discovery that the seemingly mundane things, as well as the exciting things, talk about the meaning of life. "You" meaning God, whom I was posing my frustrations to. We recorded it in the Orange Room, with Don on bass by then. |
