The Freshman Experiment

All of the B and C sections that I have to write must be repeatable so I wanted to find two main ideas in the song. The song is about falling for someone even though you know you’re not supposed to but it’s also about watching yourself do it - almost like an out of body experience. If you were watching a movie of it, you would think the character was being stupid but there you are - in the movie - drunk, falling, and unable to stop it. So I listened to Last Week’s Alcohol Groove a gazillion times this morning and landed on these main ideas. I feel great about my C section. It’s a riff off of the other ideas I’ve had but this I wrote while listening to a specific section of the music (I marked what the timestamp was). I think ultimately, you probably want a little bit more of a build in the 3rd line but I love the way the “fall” hits.A
A
A
B
This is how it feels to fall in love.
This is how it feels to fall.
The weakness, the sadness, the sirens, the madness.
The urgency swarming in your chest,
Like you’re racing the streets in an ambulance.

C (I synced this at 1:44.)
I’m watching you.
I’m watching me.
I’m watching us
Fall. (This hits on the downbeat at about 2:04)
Fall.

A
C
I’m watching you.
I’m watching me.
I’m watching us
Fall. (The fall hits at 2:04 on the downbeat.)
Fall.

A
A1
A2 (ends with Last week’s alcohol.)
D (scans with the melody line from the piano accompaniment)
B
This is how it feels to fall in love.
This is how it feels to fall.
The weakness, the sadness, the sirens, the madness.
The urgency swarming in your chest,
Like you’re racing the streets in an ambulance.

C
I’m watching you.
I’m watching me.
I’m watching us
Fall.
Fall.

And imagine this last part extends. The cool thing about the way it’s built is that you can steal from the B or the C to extend it. You can take any of the individual lines or even sections of the lines from the B section or you could riff off of the word fall or just “I’m watching”.

The overall story is going to be about the sort of dance between falling for someone and going out for an evening of drinking and therefore flirting with the possibility of being with someone else and finally allowing yourself (because you’re drunk) to at least temporarily fall for that original person – not that that original person is right for you. On the contrary, he/she often is not. All the while you have this sense of impending doom – which CC so nicely represented with her ambulance. I think I made the ambulance work, by the way. Right? I’m going to talk to Brian on the phone today and see if this is something he can work from and then I’ll start tackling the verses. I’ve never built a song in this way before. It felt so epic and overwhelming when we began but now I’m beginning to wonder how I’ll fit it all in. I suppose I do have a lot of As and Aprimes to work with…