SHOW ME THE WAY - Gretel and Hansel Tribute

I wrote, recorded, and produced this song specifically for this tribute video. I watched the movie on a rainy day back in April this year, during the whole covid19 quarantine situation here in Spain, and I really enjoyed watching it so I decided that, as an experiment, I would write a song related only to the story and the characters of the film, a song written with the only purpose of making this tribute video and trying a different songwriting method. 

I started composing the introductory arpeggio with the guitar and then continued the rest with the DAW on my computer. I created the instrumental track first and later added the melody and the lyrics. As a curious fact about this different way of making the song, I could mention that I don't actually know the chords I used for the chorus, since I wrote the arpeggio of that part trying something completely different, and I wanted to use different chords than the ones I'm used to adding in most of my songs. I usually play G and D for the choruses in my songs, so this time I randomly started to write different notes in the arpeggio and tried to make them fit in with the rest of the parts. 

As a result, the chorus does not have the same entity as in some of my other songs, when the notes and the voice go higher, but I still like the fact that is more distinctive than usual and maybe it's not always necessary to make the voice and the melody go higher in order to create a powerful chorus. Sometimes less is more. And even though I may consider the song a little repetitive from a structure perspective, I still like the mystic atmosphere that's imprinted in the singing melody and I really enjoyed trying something different this time.

LYRICS

I will find a way

I'm gonna make it out of here someday

I'll make my own way

I'm gonna change the end of this fairy tale

I'm gonna say no prayers, I'm gonna play no games

I'm gonna pay no sins, I'm gonna feel no shame

I'll show you the way

I'm gonna find a way to make you stay

Once upon a time in a world full of pain

I will show you the way, I will show you I care

I will show you the way

Once upon a time in a world full of pain

I will show you the way, I will show you I care

I will show you the way

I'm gonna say no prayers, I'm gonna play no games

I'm gonna pay no sins, I'm gonna feel no shame

I'll show you the way

I'm gonna find a way to make you stay

Once upon a time in a world full of pain

I will show you the way, I will show you I care

I will show you the way

Once upon a time in a world full of pain

I will show you the way, I will show you I care

I will show you the way

LOST IN THE DARK

I feel like I’m trapped in between two worlds, the world we all know and conceive as the real one and a whole different dimension that remains unknown to our senses but yet we all perceive. I don’t know what exactly led me to walk this uncertain path but I do know how I got here… and it was all in me, ever since the beginning I felt something different about reality as if something was off and I couldn’t do anything but to wait and be taken wherever this so-called perception would want to. 

But even without knowing anything about what following this path would mean, I chose to stay in it for a simple reason: I loathed reality and, especially, the people in it. And this hasn’t changed for a single day of my life. It’s not that I want everything to be perfect in some unrealistic way but still can’t help feeling threatened by this lack of empathy we’ve been experiencing until today as a human race. Too much violence and obliviousness about it. I feel as though we had failed. I’d like to believe that something can be done about it or that, maybe, this is part of the evolution process.

Maybe we need to learn to dance in the dark, maybe we need to get lost in order to be found. It’s hard to tell feeling this numbness and pain in my heart. Yet I refuse to keep on blaming myself for other people’s behavior cause no one’s capable of carrying the weight of the whole world on their shoulders. If we all have the power of choice and we all can make the same mistakes, then maybe I should give myself a break from not being perfect. If I’ve been trapped in between two worlds for too long and it’s only up to me to differentiate one world from another I choose to do it. If I once was brave enough to choose to get lost in the dark I can be brave enough now to get out of it.