New Clothes
by @jeff9
Liner Notes
#country
A really eager lyricist from the Muse Songwriters site (I'm trying to talk her into FAWMing) who has a zillion ideas and pretty nice flair for country material has, so far, had to rely on one of the Generative AI platforms to get her stuff musicated. I don't think she'd ever done a collaboration to get a sense of quite how to mold the structure of her lyrics to make them readily inviting to a musician. So I reached out and offered to sort of be a human AI for her if she could limit herself to writing something with a VVCVBC format. She slipped a fourth verse in on me, but it looked too good not to be worth tackling. After a few tweaks, this is what emerged.
Lyrics
Your New Clothes
Lyrics - Axl Hodge
Music - Jeff Walker
Oh how I tried to get your attention
Just a smile when you looked my way
My heart was starved and you played me so hard
You were only around
Every single payday
Bought you only the biggest and finest
Early on seeing you soar made my day
But as time goes on my will yea it won’t
Let me forget how quickly
Your love went away
(Chorus)
Do your new clothes tell you they love you
Does that new car tell you it cares
Does that big house up on Sycamore St.
Start to worry when you’re late getting there
Does your phone and your ring
Yea that big shiny bling
Hold you close when you despair
Yea do your new clothes
Tell you they love you
When I did it got me nowhere
You treasured my gifts or I thought so
I couldn’t wait to fulfill all your dreams
But when I bought you a ring it seemed only to bring
On a hunger I never
Could learn out how to feed
Those designer clothes and a Lexus
Then the house I’m still working to own
You moved in your stuff, but the going got tough
Now I sleep in the basement
On a couch all alone
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
So am I the one to blame
Because you only played a game
Getting all you could then leaving me broke
Yes your soul it didn’t care
Who you hurt, what was fair
In the end you laughed
Like it all was a joke
(Repeat chorus)
Outro:
Do your new clothes tell you
They love you
‘Cause my heart is telling me to let you go
Great out of my house
But go right ahead
and wear those clothes
Comments
Great listen!
Anyway, this is classic country that you do so well. One of my favorites!