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What Was Wanting Was Me
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RETRO slightly jazzy and sadly philosophical
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RETRO pop songs --- from another millennium and another galaxy.
My name's Pete. from Birmingham in UK-land. Nice to meet you ! I made a lot of very varied popsongs in the pre-digital age. I say they're McCartneyish, as I don't know how to categorize them. Allsorts. The description I use is RETRO I'm really a songwriter who wants others to perform these songs. So please bear that in mind as you grimace at my efforts to be acceptable. I'm especially concerned to write good lyrics, and if you do ever give some time to my stuff, I hope you will click to the lyrics and read those also. They don't come easy, you know. I'm plonking my songs here to give them a home, in the hope you might think they're not too bad. In fact, in the hope that you'll snap them up and I'll become an instant overnight megastar multi-millionaire. But failing that, I hope that you just like them. And if you do like one - I'd especially like it if you told me so. We all need strokes, eh ? Cheers ! Pete Songs-in-a-Bottle
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Pop • Dance-Pop
Author
Pete of Songs in a Bottle
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Pete of Songs in a Bottle
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August 10, 2007
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MP3 4.9 MB • 128 kbps • 5:17
Story behind the song
originally titled l'amour de la vie and meant to be happy. -- happy it aint ---- maybe I'll rewrite it if I ever become happy
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if I stop and I ponder what I've done with my life and assess my achievement sometimes I can barely bear to reflect as I see all too clearly what the things I was told but I didn't believe meant I dismissed them then with wilful neglect had I but appreciated simple truth I might not have spent and wasted precious youth and I see all too late now altruism and love and the value of friendship easy things to say much harder to learn so if there's one thing I've been taught by cruel reality through it all - what was wanting was me I have failed in my love life, finding shallow relationships something alluring letting loose acquaintances come then go never choosing involvement, things of permanent worth, nothing firm or enduring never planting seeds and helping them grow why were all my thoughts on love so strewn and scattered ? why did I not concentrate on things that mattered ? now I stand in the spotlight analysing myself and my crude motivation scrutinising my life subjectively and brutal self-examination forces me to see and admit - what was wanting was me I could hide from myself and pretend all these things too abstract and abstruse but deep down these are things that I just should have known, and there is no excuse here am I with weeping eyes bemoaning fate oh yes, now the lesson's learnt, but much too late here am I as you find me, moping in these moments of self-revelation if I could go back there's so much I'd change so many things my aching heart regrets so bitterly as I say - what was wanting was me, me sadly, what was wanting was me
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