This was quite a process to arrange. Very weird feeling to have someone writing all over your body. Praise the higher powers that a sharpie wasn’t accidentally switched out for the special skin ink style pen that was used. This took about 4 hours or more to complete the filming of. Having to pick out body parts to write on and then making sure the naked bits that seem to offend so many Americans weren’t in the frame during shooting. Whew. What a process.
Enjoy this unique way of getting the lyrics from Touch (feat. Jacarri)!
If you’re like me, you caught FourFiveSeconds as a live performance on the GRAMMYS a few days ago. Its the new single by Rihanna that’s co-written by Sir Paul McCartney and Kanye West.
I really enjoyed the live performance by Rihanna and Paul along with Nuno Bettancourt (Rihanna’s Guitarist). So much so that I decided to learn the song. Took about all of 15 minutes to commit it to memory. I posed the question on Twitter if tweeps wanted to see me playing the song and Bob’s your uncle. Here ya go.
FourFiveSeconds
I think I’ve had enough, I might get a little drunk I say what’s on my mind, I might do a little time Cause all of my kindness, is taken for weakness
Now I’m Four Five Seconds from wildin’ And we got three more days ’til Friday I’m just tryna make it back home by Monday, mornin’ I swear I wish somebody would tell me Ooh thats all I want
Woke up an optimist, sun was shining I’m positive Then I heard you was talkin’ trash Hold me back I’m bout’ to spaz
Now I’m Four Five Seconds from wildin’ And we got three more days ’til Friday I’m just tryna make it back home by Monday, mornin’ I swear I wish somebody would tell me Ooh thats all I want
And I know that you’re up tonight Thinkin’ how could I be so selfish But you called bout a thousand times wondering where I been Now I know that your up tonight Thinkin’ how could I be so reckless But I just can’t apologize, I hope you can understand
If I go to jail tonight, promise you’ll pay my bail See they want to buy my pride, but that just ain’t up for sale See all of my kindness, is taken for weakness
Now I’m Four Five Seconds from wildin’ And we got three more days ’til Friday I’m just tryna make it back home by Monday, mornin’ I swear I wish somebody would tell me Ooh thats all I want
Now I’m Four Five Seconds from wildin’ And we got three more days ’til Friday I’m just tryna make it back home by Monday, mornin’ I swear I wish somebody would tell me Ooh thats all I want
I learned “It Was Always You” last night after hearing it pop up once or twice on iTunes Radio & also on Beats Music. I’m a fan of Maroon 5. Have been. Decided it was time I threw down a little cover version of one of their tunes. This song rocks in it’s original format and surprisingly it holds up well as it translates to an acoustic number. I kept the main guitar thing simple as their arrangement is really sparse, but the synth is the major driving factor. Without the 16th note push, I think it would have fallen apart acoustically.
What do you think?
It Was Always You
Woke up sweating from a dream With a different kind of feeling, oh All day long my heart was beating Searching for the meaning, oh
Hazel eyes, I was so color blind We were just wasting time, uh uh babe For my whole life, we never crossed the line Only friends in my mind, but now I realize
It was always you Can’t believe I could not see it all this time All this time
It was always you Now I know why my heart wasn’t satisfied Satisfied
It was always you, you No more guessing who Looking back now I know it was always you
Always you
All my hidden desires Finally came alive, hmm No, I never told lies To you so why would I Start tonight
Hazel eyes, I was so color blind We were just wasting time, uh uh babe For my whole life, we never crossed the line Only friends in my mind, but now I realize
It was always you Can’t believe I could not see it all this time All this time
It was always you Now I know why my heart wasn’t satisfied Satisfied
It was always you, you No more guessing who Looking back now I know it was always you
Always you
Ah, yeah (you, you, you, always you, you, you) 2x
Woke up sweating from a dream With a different kind of feeling
It was always you Can’t believe I could not see it all this time All this time
It was always you Now I know why my heart wasn’t satisfied Satisfied
It was always you, you No more guessing who Looking back now I know it was always you
