Leave Me Alone - New original vocal

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2012/03/20 21:44:25 (permalink)

Leave Me Alone - New original vocal

This is not meant to be a depressing song, or a song of dispair.  Just a song about a guy that has is way of dealing with life's hardships.
 
My wife asked my why I wrote about this and I replied The song has to be about something.  
 
I hope you like the song.    Daryl
 
Leave Me Alone
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Leave Me Alone
 
Why won't the world
Just leave me alone
This load I've had to carry
Has turned my heart to stone
That's why I'm asking you
Just leave me alone
 
There was a time
When everything was bright
But everything that's happend
Has turned my days to night
Don't try to rescue me.
Just leave me...
 
            Chorus:
            ..alone. I'm walkin'
            Down this road to despair.
            It's a road that leads to ruin
            But I don't really care
            The things that matter most
            Were found but lost somewhere
            Their memory won't leave me alone
 
They say you can run
But you can never hide
I might not hide forever
But you can say I tried
My undercover life's unknown
Just leave me alone
 
Don't try to make it better
I'm better off this way
There is really nothin'
That you could do or say
I can make it on my own
Please leave me....
 
            Chorus:
 
Please just keep on movin'
There's nothin' here to see
You can't share my troubles
That I'll keep a mystery
That’s just my comfort zone
Just leave me alone
 
Don't worry none about me
Don't want no sympathy
Don't need no conversation
Isolation's what I need
Don't call me on the phone
Just leave me alone
           
Chorus:
 

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    bandontherun19
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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/20 21:50:41 (permalink)

    Sad songs say so much... I enjoyed this, that guitar sounds great, is that one of those musicians friend beginner guitars? :-)

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/20 23:34:34 (permalink)
    Hi, I can't play this on my iPad with sound click so I'll get back to you in the morning when I'm at my PC.
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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 09:55:07 (permalink)
    Hi Daryl,

    Great tune!  Excellent job on the lead and backing vox.  Your playing and phrasing always remind me of Mark Knopfler but with more of a Jazz tone.  Beautiful stuff, man. 

    Nice chromatic approaches.  The mix/production sound great to me. 

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 10:58:35 (permalink)
    Hi Daryl,

    Really good job on the songs and production.  Sounds great on my system. 

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 11:05:25 (permalink)
    Nice song, nice job playing and singing it. I mean in a depressed kind of way.

     
     
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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 11:19:12 (permalink)
    Now this is classic Daryl. Excellent job on the recording.....and I generally love your writing..... no exception this time. 


    I can relate to the sentiment in the tune..... 

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 11:52:57 (permalink)
    Beautiful guitar work as always.  Your voice is a perfect match for this style of music.  This is a gem as is all of your music.  Kudos.

    All the best,
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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 12:34:36 (permalink)
    Daryl,
     
    Great song and well performed.   Guitar is outstanding as usual, vox are good too.  
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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 12:39:06 (permalink)
    The intro has competitive rhythm parts and it made me lose concentration on what should be the focus.

    I like the mode you're singing in the verse. Chorus goes the bluegrass route.

    I also get that same competitive feeling in parts of the verses. I can't figure out what you want me to listen to - the intricate guitar work, or the vocal.

    I would either chop up the guitar work and place it 'around' the vocal or back it way off and pan it super hard, or reverb the hell out of it to remove the attack.

    Generally, I think it's very well mixed. Drums could come up, or be punchier to round out the bottom. But I think it all depends on what you're looking to accomplish with it. Definitely a cool track. Reminds me of how much I love music and music production.

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/21 20:20:49 (permalink)
    Daryl, another great song.  I have to echo some of what ruralrocker2010 is saying.  Some of the rhythm playing seems to compete, especially at the beginning.  Otherwise great tune and mix.

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/22 01:20:51 (permalink)
    lyrics, licks production, , in that order... yeah... very cool  D...
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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/22 13:36:18 (permalink)
    Thanks for nice comments.  I've been slow getting back as I just went through a rare sickness for me (I almost never get sick), I think it was some bad food but it was HELL and I'm still not back up to feeling right.

    Robby, you can make some pretty good music these days on a beginner guitar.  That's the custom archtop on the fingerpicking and my Tricked out Cort on the lead.

    Gary - Wow, some pretty high compliments from a finger picker extrodinaire.  Thank you.

    Rimshot - Thank you.

    Spacecalf - Thanks, I tend to think of it as more melencholy.

    Herb - Thanks bud.  I almost consider myself more of a songwriter these days than a musician.

    Lynn - Thank you. I appreciate that.

    Mark - Thanks friend. 

    Josh - Mark.  Thanks.  I'm not sure what you mean.  The "rhythm" is a fingerpickin' pattern on the chords rather than strumming them.  There is also piano and organ but they are just accenting the chords.  I did up the volume on the first two measures of the finger picking just to establish the vibe of the chords.  Also the only place I play lead with the vocal are just single notes to accent the key note in the chord.  The fingerpickin is central to the song and it could have been done as an acoustic number but I wanted it more emotional than that.  Sounds like I got the two aproaches in conflict.

    Frank - Wow you made my day.  You put the lyrics at the top.  Thank you so much.

    Daryl








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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/23 07:36:14 (permalink)
    Hi Daryl,
    you really seem to be honing in on your songwriting & productions .
    I didn't find that this song was depressing at all,
    I felt it conveyed a form of loneliness that I feel often .
    It's the type of  loneliness where it seems the whole world and everybody in the whole world has a different set of values that seems foreign to what mine are  . so why bother right? ....
    anyway that's what I got out of it as a listener.
    you did a good job on this pretty much all across the board

    all the best,

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/23 11:26:00 (permalink)
    Hey Daryl
    The lead guitar tone really sets the mood of the song IMO. It's the perfect harmony with your lead vocals.  GREAT tune!

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/23 14:18:04 (permalink)
    Lovely song Daryl, my new favourite of yours. Those descending guitar runs are just wonderful, and there's beautiful phrasing throughout. Great stuff.

     
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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/24 20:12:22 (permalink)
    Thanks guys.  I'm still under the weather and just checking in here and there, definately feeling better than I was.

    Kenny,  Thanks Kenny.  I find myself drawn the songwriting as much as just the pure joy of playing anymore.  You know about the pure joy of just playing for thrill of it, don't you!

    Kev  Thank you.  Guitar playing and singing are the two things I can at least sorta kinda be OK at.

    James, Thank you guitar man, your attention to detail is always appreciated.  So glad you liked it.

    Daryl

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/27 17:50:58 (permalink)
    I like the song a bunch.  The bass is played nicely but you never seem to give the bass any punch in your mixes.  DON'T GET ME WRONG!!  The mix is well done but it seems to me that with that bass line with some bottom it would fill the song even better.  IMHO, buddy.  I love the harmonies!!  As always your playing and tone makes for some nice listening. 

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    Re:Leave Me Alone - New original vocal 2012/03/27 19:56:11 (permalink)
    Sad but sweet sir, well done

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