Fellow students at the Steemiversity of life! Hello. For the month of March, I've decided to try something a little different. Rather than focusing on songwriting and multi-instrumental production (backing vocals, second and lead guitars, drums, synths, etc.), I would like to focus exclusively on performance. To this end, I will not be adding additional instruments or vocals to my performances this month. I won't be using any software to edit my video sound at all, actually, although I will probably continue to edit the visuals in iMovie as I have been.

Also, in the interest of focusing on performance, I'll be performing covers for the rest of the month. So today's entry will be the last original posted for the month of March!

This song doesn't really have a title, as I've never been able to settle on one I really liked. The one I'm using for this post is provisional.

The sound quality on this recording may not be the best, and there's that one (very noticeable) mess up on the bridge, but I like the raw energy of this take. Enjoy :D

Cut n' Pasted

Every word we spoke
Was another word wasted
Each sentence was a ransom note
Each letter cut and pasted
Any hostage
Doomed right from the start

'Cuz when the voices in my head chimed in
They talk talk talked so loud
I had to shout just to try and get thru
And they still drowned me out
I think I've broken
I've broken my own heart

And I did it myself
All by myself
I believed the words the devil whispered in my ear
Well I thought
He had
My best interest at heart
But I forgot
He doesn't have a heart
At all

So what if I had stopped it?
What if I had kissed you?
What if I had simply laughed
At the way the devil dissed you
What if I had refused to be deceived?

Fighting someone else's war
Is a fool's undertaking
Too easy to take aim and fire
I wasn't really thinking
I was only breaking my own heart

And I did it myself
All by myself
I believed the things the devil whispered in my ear
Well I thought
He had
My best interest at heart
But I forgot
He doesn't have a heart
At all

Hey hey hey yeah

Oh if we could only start again I promise not to shoot
And if you promise not to lob grenades I found a parachute
You know there's more than one way off this plane

God only knows why the devil hates love
But it's either him or you and me
So can we call his bluff?
Sometimes the heart is smarter than the brain

And I did it myself
All by myself
I believed the things the devil whispered in my ear
Well I thought
He had
My best interest at heart
But I forgot
He doesn't have a heart
At all

Yeah I thought
He had
My best interest at heart
But I forgot
He doesn't have a heart
At all

©2018 Bennett Italia

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©2018 Bennett Italia