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
