I Am Here For You Every Day

First week into recording my EP and I've only finished one guide track for the percussionist to use for recording his parts over. Recording is a slow and frustrating process. Particularly when you're anal and obsessive, but not always that capable, experiences or confident about what you want to do with a song. Every little mistake, normally inconsequential when playing live, becomes glaringly obvious and immortalized for endless repetition (and hence annoyance) if not dealt with. Four humble minutes of song can often take 10 times that number in hours, if not more.

I've tried a few things on this recording, mainly with vocal ideas, preparing the way for the actual recording, as when you get in the studio and are paying money you can't toy around like I have this week while just doing this guide track recording at home.I have to get very certain and confident about what I want to record.

Although I say this is a guide track that is under-selling it as I have tried to make it sound as good as I can, as I need better recordings to show people, as you well know if you've heard my recordings on this blog so far. Very average indeed...

I welcome any comments, and encourage brutal honesty. If you feel uncomfortable putting your honest, critical thoughts in a comment on this blog then e-mail me at myfighttowrite@gmail.com as this would be a big help to me moving forward with this recording. Anything that you find annoying, weird, distracting or negative in any way in the vocals I would like to know about.

One last thing - those who read the original post of this song you know the title was "Hey (I Am Here For You Every Day)" which I did like but am wondering whether I should remove the "Hey". What do you think?


I Am Here For You Every Day

No-one can be strong every day

You may want to lay down and make the world go away

But when these moments come to make you blue

You have to look around and know I am always here for you

Singing hey

I am here for you every day

Everyone has some troubled times

Life has a way of upsetting your rhymes

But it’s OK, this is just the way it is

Just let it all out, but never forget this

I’m singing hey

I am here for you every day

I want you to know

That you will never walk alone

I want you to know

That when the hard times come

And you’re feeling down

You can always count on some

To be singing hey

We are here for you every day