I’m not sure how I feel about this song. It feels…pretty? Like I find the melody to be really pretty, and I’ve been humming it all night. And I put a lot of thought into the lyrics (an improvised track, this was not). Sort of going for a Dorian Gray metaphor for relationships (starts with taking linen off a dusty canvas, the image is what you fall in love with, you’re overwhelmed by its hidden sadness, it’s viewed by most as a revelation, but in unforeseeable ways it turns into something twisted)- for example, a line I should point out, because it makes me feel all smart-word-using, but you can’t make out the final line of the lyric in the line is, “If your innocence was gray (get it?) then your heart was as black as night, once I saw a masterpiece, now all I see is blight.”
I feel like I don’t let go enough with it. I spend too much time in the lower register, and I need to spend more time in the middle register. I’ll have to figure out a way to get to that before this version gets ingrained in my head.
Some lyrics that might change is that I might move the “Serenity please release me, leave me like I was before” part- well first I’m going to change that second part to “serenity please forgive me” but I might make that the slow end part of the song (the final four lines in this version were actually improvised). and I might put in a line as the “final high register stanza” to be “wherefore art thou happy ending, you carve a cross upon my face, I see vultures descending, they have found the right place” to sort of add some hints of shakespeare to the thing.
Anyway, I’m still very violently oscillating between hating and loving this song, despite playing it on repeat for the past 20 minutes. So whatever, might as well tumbl that sucker.
“Serenity’s Linen’s” from the “album” “Miley Cyrus Sings the Blues”
