Cold and Lonely Nites

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Everyday Hero

Right now Everyday Hero is just a guy, a guitar, an amp, a synth, and some computer equipment.

This is just a page to put up the stuff I write and have written and see what people thought of it. Maybe it'll turn into something more serious, or maybe it'll just be some ideas I toss around for bit.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Rock General

Charts

Peak #509

Peak in subgenre #297

Author

Tim Brown

Uploaded

April 13, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.6 MB • 128 kbps • 4:59

Story behind the song

This was the first tune I ever wrote start to finish, lyrics and all.  It was 1989 and I was 19.  One night after work, I was walking back into my grandmother's house where I lived at the time in her basement.  I had broken up with my second girlfriend a few months earlier and being a typical teen boy, I was depressed.  (Oh the melodrama!!)  I looked up at the rather gloomy sky that night and the two lines in the second verse (I looked through the gloom and despair...) came to mind along with a guitar riff that became the chorus.  The rest of the song flowed from that and I showed it to the guys I was in a band with at the time.  The infamous Sweet Cheetah.

This version doesn't have vocals (or much of anything besides guitar tracks right now) but that'll change when I get my hands on a decent mic.

I've decided to revamp the tune.  Folks who remember the original will notice that the verses are now twice as long as before.  That's mainly so when the vocals do get added, they don't feel as rushed as the original did.

I also, finally, added the wah-wah pedal that Eric and I thought was so frickin' cool about a thousand years ago.  However, from listening to this track, I have to admit I need to go back and practice my wah-wah technique a bit more!

Lyrics

Now that we're through my life ain't been the same
Our love to you, girl, was just some silly game
You loved me, then left me, took my heart from me
And as I stand here in the rain it's you I want to see
On these...

(Chorus)
Cold and lonely nights
Dreamin' of the time when I held you baby
Cold and lonely nights
Dreamin' of the time I can hold you again

When we first met I knew it was the end
Of my desperate searchin' nights lookin' for a friend
I looked through the gloom and despair of the night
I saw your eyes and I knew that we'd be right
On these

(Chorus)

I'd have stayed with you
For eternity
But I know who you love
And it isn't me

(Guitar solo)

(Chorus)

I gave you my hand, I gave you my heart
I was willin' to risk it all right from the start
But you didn't seem to feel the way that I did
So now I'm all alone and I'm feelin' like a kid
On these...

(Chorus)

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