You guys know I love to embarass myself for Wildvoice! This is a rerecording of my song The Weed. I was home alone, so I took the opportunity to sing it like I imagined. It's flat (but accappella), and at the "flower" part, I scream scream, but for a one take recording, I think it's not too bad. Hopefully this gives you a better idea of how the song is supposed to sound.
The original The Weed
The Weed
© James A Daulton 2006
I ain’t never been
Too damn sure
If I liked someone else
Or me more
When I lay alone
I get so scared
I get on the phone
To try to get repaired
Noone to save me
And I feel lately
I gotta get good
[My kids are gonna be
Proud of their daddy
Noone’s gonna ask me
Why couldn’t I be
Any better, any better
Than me]
I get kind of mad
At my past
Feeling kind of like life
Kicked me in the ass
Never thought it would be
So damn hard
But I turn around amazed
That I got this far
I can’t get through it
But I do it
Everytime
[My kids are gonna be
Proud of their daddy
Noone’s gonna ask me
Why couldn’t I be
Any better, any better
Than me]
I hated myself
For so long now
I don’t know how I lived like that
But I did it somehow
I prayed to God a few times
Sometimes for hours
I was the weed in life
Held up by the flowers
But now that I see that
I can’t be that
Anymore
[My kids are gonna be
Proud of their daddy
Noone’s gonna ask me
Why couldn’t I be
Any better, any better
Than me]
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