Help me Vote on My First Original Recording!
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    Help me Vote on My First Original Recording!

    by christinepetitmusic » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:32 pm

    Hi all!

    My name is Christine, I am a singer/songwriter, and I have a kickstarter to help fund the instrumentation and professional recording of my first original songs! I have already reached 72% of my goal and only need $53 now to reach full funding, so please help out and share or back my project if you like my sound or my lyrics and want to help me make my music happen!

    For now, I have started asking viewers and backers to vote on which song I should record with my kickstarter pledges, It would be great if forum people could help out and share their opinions!

    Backers' votes count twice (so if you really like a song, even backing $1 would help greatly!) and everyone else counts once. You can vote by leaving a comment on my project with the name of the song you like.

    I am leaving the kickstarter link here:
    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/19 ... y-original

    But I will also include the lyrics and links to the song options! Let me know your thoughts, comment, and pledge away! Thanks so much!

    True Life

    (the song in my kickstarter video, and linked here: https://soundcloud.com/christinepetitmu ... e-original)

    You say I found you the words that you never could say

    You didn’t know how to breathe but you breathed anyway

    You said that I was the light that you never could see

    You don’t believe in God, but you believe in me

    Others picked at my petals and then tossed them aside

    But you, you watered my roots and sang a lullaby

    You’re my

    True Life

    But you don’t hide

    You stay the night

    You show me sun in the sky on my darkest days

    I showed you what’s underneath and you begged me to stay

    You promise every day that I won’t be alone

    We used our broken pieces to build our new home

    No need for lingerie

    You take the scars and the pain

    You take the words to my songs

    And sing them all night long

    You’re my

    True Life

    But you don’t hide

    You stay the night

    You know

    My whole soul

    But you don’t go

    You make it whole


    Your Song

    And I could write a song for every boy who ever let me down

    And sing a tune for all the times my heart’s been messed around

    And hide away forever just to run from all the pain

    Till the burning desire hits me and I’m right back at it again

    But for some reason I believe that this is something real

    And maybe I’m jaded enough to doubt the way I feel

    But something tells me this is right like nothing else before

    So fuck the others, here I go

    It’s you I’m falling for

    I’ve said the same about the ones who never seemed to last

    But this is here and now and all of that is in the past

    At times my insecurities threaten my faith in you

    You squash them every single time, and I love the way you do

    Cause just for some reason I believe that this is something real

    And maybe I’m jaded enough to doubt the way I feel

    But something tells me this is right like nothing else before

    So fuck the others, here I go It’s you I’ve fallen for

    So please be patient with my heart

    Cause it’s crumbled up before

    And don’t be scared if I hide

    Or start running for the door

    I’ve made mistakes, and I’ve failed

    And it’s still hard to understand

    That you could love me like you do

    So I put my faith in you

    Cause just for some reason I believe that this is something real

    And maybe I’m jaded enough to doubt the way I feel

    But something tells me this is right and that my doubts are wrong

    So fuck the others, here I go It’s here that I belong


    Memories Decayed

    You are the fragile line

    Between who I’ve become and where I’ve been

    And now you’re fading away

    You are the truth I never had

    You were never really there

    You just let me slip away

    And you’re a decaying slice of memory

    I can’t feel you anymore

    I can’t remember what it’s like

    To want you more than ever

    I’m not broken up again

    I’m just leaving you behind

    You never were enough for me

    And now I’m gone forever

    Your cowardice had only just begun

    To break its way through me

    To suck out the life within

    Your words are weapons and fire

    That command you from the core

    To live and die alone

    And you’re a decaying slice of memory

    I can’t feel you anymore

    I can’t remember what it’s like

    To want you more than ever

    I’m not broken up again

    I’m just leaving you behind

    You never were enough for me

    And now I’m gone forever

    The way you move It feels like a dream

    A dream I once had that’s moved so far from memory

    Would it have been so hard

    To just let me go

    Without tearing me apart

    And you’re a decaying slice of memory

    I can’t feel you anymore

    I can’t remember what it’s like

    To want you more than ever

    I’m not broken up again

    I’m just leaving you behind

    You never were enough for me

    And now I’m gone forever


    I Am The Light

    (crappy acapella recording here: https://soundcloud.com/christinepetitmu ... t-original)

    When the sunset speaks to the clock on the wall

    I will clench my knees and brace for the fall

    I won’t clench my teeth and hold back my song

    The only chorus I know: I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    And these eyes…have seen the pain of this life

    And these ears…have heard cries in the night

    And these feet…are calloused, scarred and destroyed

    And these hands…aren’t slipping uncoiled

    And these tired arms aren’t coming undone

    And this sullen mind is not the only one

    And this broken body will walk on as it goes

    To our only song: I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’ll read a letter that God forgot to send

    Put my neck to the stone and die for my own sins

    I will continue to fight for the unknown fight

    I am the darkness and I am the light

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’ll be the spark that lights this world on fire

    Throwing firecrackers on Satan’s funeral pyre

    Nothing is bad and nothing is good

    Only this truth that you’d sing if you could

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own

    I’m not on my own


    And Finally,

    Darkest Corners

    I build my home in your darkest corners

    I find my solace in your most broken pieces

    I find my strength in your moments of weakness

    And I find my weakness in the strands of your eyes

    So I’ll take you home

    Wipe off your eyes

    I just need to make you feel okay

    And I don’t know why

    I’ll mess up your hair

    Hold you all night

    But I’m never gonna learn to fly

    When I’m by your side

    I want to save you more than you can imagine

    But I can’t imagine what it’s like to be saved

    There’s no room for me in your haunted memories

    But I can’t bear to leave you even though I’ve tried

    So I’ll hear you scream

    And walk home alone

    I need to keep you running back

    More than you know

    And I’ll pull you close

    Tell you it’s just fine

    But I’m never gonna run away

    If I keep begging you to stay


    My name is Christine Petit and I am a 23 year old doctorate psychology student, singer, and lyricist living in NYC. Check out my kickstarter project here to help me create and record my original songs: http://kck.st/1A3kZ3Y

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