blogsong #6: Day-by-Day

Here's another song telling a bit about my life in the last decade. It is about big things in life, as they happen day by day. It came about when I listened a lot to Tom McRae's album Just Like Blood. I came up with two pretty weird chords (fyi: 3-X-0-2-3-X and 7-X-X-6-7-X), that even chordfind.com doesn't recognize. They matched the melody pretty well though. The chorusses are wordless, recently I changed the la-la-la into a whistling melody. +Shanti came up with that! The song starts very introvertly, but ends with an outrageous break: this party's going all the way, hey hey hey!!

Day-by-Day

Words and music: Joris Kleverlaan

Call it a speedball

call it life.

I’m in control,

I will survive.

First you await me,

then you sedade me

separate me,

            for a while…

This is day-by-day

Call it a minimal

call it my child.

We will give it a name

we will give it live.

First we’ll believe it,

then we’ll greet it,

surely feed it,

            what’s needed

This is day-by-day

Chorus

Call it a war room

Call it a fight

Remember this

Outlook on life

As soon as we hover

In our helicopter

Yeah we will discover

            We’re all brothers

This is day-by-day

Chorus

Break:

Yeah we watch television

Head to head collision

This party’s going all the way hey hey hey!

We won’t get suffocated

Nor be hibernated

This party’s going all the way hey hey hey!