Hi guys! Welcome to Song of the Week.
This is a new series I'm starting here on my channel where I'll be sharing a new song each week and the story behind what inspired it. The songs will be never before released, mostly finished creations from my archive. I wanted to create a space where I could share these works, many of which I would have released officially but didn’t for one reason or another, and some may be more work-in-progress things that I’m excited about. My hope is that creating this outlet for my unreleased works will be a lot of fun, satisfying to my heart and creative practice, and will give the songs a chance to resonate with some of you.
A little bit about me, I’m a singer songwriter and producer and I’ve been playing guitar and piano since I was 12 years old. I started producing songs with Ableton when I was 15 and fell in love with creating music. Nowadays I have a solo project, write and produce for other artists, compose music for commercials and short film, and tour occasionally. I live in Los Angeles near the ocean.
This week's song is called "Something More" which I wrote and recorded in January 2020 - a totally normal year where nothing out of the ordinary happened - in my old studio, which was a converted garage behind my parents house. Melodically I drew inspiration from Vansire's song "Metamodernity" and I'm pretty sure Drake sings "Cause we're falling apart" in one of his songs very similar to the way I sing it here. What can I say, I was listening to a lot of Drake at the time. And some Vansire apparently. Ahh the hopeful vibes of January 2020! In any case, it's a song about falling hopelessly, and helplessly in love. The kind of love you know might hurt you in the end, but gives you a glimpse of divinity. I ended up using the line "This heart is made of glass" in the song "There's No Other" I made with Westerns. Here are the lyrics to "Something More"
Fall in love
There's a part of me that only you can see into
Just enough
To show me there's an open door
There's something more
This won't ever last
But the feeling in my bones makes me forget it all
This heart is made of glass
But it's hard to care at all
Cause we're falling apart
All that I believe is the light you showed to me
But you took it away
Got to make you see
So I'll find a way to say
That I want you to stay
Fall in love
There's a part of me that only you can see into
Just enough to show there's an open door
There's something more
For me and you to see
This heart is made of glass
But it's hard to care at all
Cause we're falling apart
There's a part of me that only you can see into
Show me there's an open door
There's something more
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Hope you enjoy, and I'll see you next week~
Alex
my website: alexsiegel.com/