Clouds

I totally nailed this assignment. A day early, too! I'm pretty satisfied with the results here.

CLOUDS

FIRST VERSE (contemplative, melancholy):

Late, late one night

I found myself staring at the stars.

Wondering, thinking,

How could I ever get so far?

(hum)

I’m sure it can be done,

There’s got to be some way.

I’m starting on the path;

I will make it someday.

(hum)

FIRST CHORUS INTRO:

I can’t find a road

So I’ll have to walk.

No place with a bed,

I’m sleeping on the rocks.

Don’t know the way

But there ain’t no guide.

The doubts are coming now

But I’m pushing them aside

FIRST CHORUS:

I’m reaching for the stars,

And I don’t care

If anyone tells me

That I’ll only grab air.

Reaching for the stars

I’m gonna get there.

No one can tell me

That I’ll only grab air.

SECOND VERSE (driven, serious):

So here I am now,

Getting closer every day.

Every mile I rise

Sends my fears a mile further away.

(hum?)

Not too much left to go;

With this I’ll show them all.

But I didn’t plan

For what happens if I fall.

(hum?)

SECOND CHORUS INTRO

No, this cannot be:

I’m losing my grip!

Got along so well

And now I have to slip?

I made it so far up

Why must I go down?

I don’t want this to happen;

I don’t want to hit the ground!

SECOND CHORUS:

I reached for the stars,

And that was where

I found out they were right:

I only grabbed air.

Reaching for the stars

My failure was bound.

That made it hurt worse

When I hit the ground.

LAST VERSE (content, faster):

Laying on my back,

I opened up my eyes.

Up there I hadn’t noticed

The beauty of the skies.

I took a deep breath

Thankful to have survived.

Here on the ground, I see

What a gift to be alive.

LAST CHORUS INTRO:

What goes up

Must come down.

Should I have always

Stayed on the ground?

The goal was too far,

Doomed from the first,

But not knowing if I could

Would still have been worse.

LAST CHORUS:

Reaching for the stars,

I came to see

A new perspective,

A different part of me.

I reached for the stars

And that was how

I finally managed

To touch the clouds.

If you can guess what specific event inspired it, you get a pizza. Otherwise, I'll never tell (at least, not soon).

I have most of the song composed, but not quite enough to put chords with the lyrics here. I'll tell you now that every two lines of the verse generally cycle through G F C C, the humming part is Em D A, and at least the first two intros alternate by line between Am and A major with a sharp fifth (Aaug, maybe?). I'm not so certain about the last intro or the chorus yet. There is potential for a harmonica, which would be awesome.