A Breakup Song

Hey friends, I've been working on editing the interview I promised you with my buddies Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg. Their answers were great, but it's just taking a bit to edit out my awkwardness and random loud snorts of laughter.

While I was messing around with the interview in GarageBand, I ended up recording a song I wrote after "The Breakup". I intended on recording it solely for my friend Lauren -- she and I recently decided to start performing together here and there in LA. For you haters, no, this isn't a career move. We both individually used to perform or be in bands growing up, we both stopped at some point, and we both made new year's resolutions to start again. Just something we miss doing.

Anyway, despite the fact that I recorded this on an internal laptop mic, and despite the fact that I had to twist my body into ways I had never thought possible to work with said mic, I'm content with the outcome. I figured I'd upload it here since I haven't blogged in a while.

I will probably delete tomorrow when I realize this post is the blog equivalent of a college dorm room. But in the meantime, why don't you put that Econ book away, have a seat in my bean bag chair, and listen to this song about my ex? Leave my door open. I want people in the hallway to hear.

MP3: "A Breakup Song" - Sonny Lee

*click on the "continue reading" link below for lyrics

A BREAKUP SONG
by Sonny Lee

This is the day when you turned colder
Freezing alone
While I wait by the phone
But I know it's good

Don't start the day until it's over
Where I'm happy again
Pretending we didn't end
But I know it's good

Well maybe some time by myself could make it right
Maybe last night is the last time that we fight
Say goodbye to the life
Where you stood by as my wife
Cause baby, I know that you had to go, but I know it's good.

Long live the day when we grew older
You and I have turned grey
And we've faded away
But I know it's good

God bless the day when I got sober
Never drink you again
I can see it's the end
But I know it's good

Well maybe some time with someone new
Could make it right
Maybe last night is the last time that we fight
Goodbye to the life
Where you stood by as my wife
Cause baby, I know that you had to go, but I know it's good.

The silence you hear is the sound of me giving up and down
The empty space that fills your bed is where we left all of our dreams for dead
But we tried and it never was everything that we thought because
I've re-written history to where you were never in love with me at all.
It helps the fall.

When my birthday comes in October
Don't send me a card
I won't know who you are
But I know it's good

Don't put that head down on my shoulder
Don't touch me at all
Don't write and don't call
I know it's good

Maybe the time already passed to make it right
Maybe some wine and some whiskey could warm the nights
Maybe I'm trying too hard
Cause I'm falling apart
Baby I know, that you had to go, but I don't know...
Why you went away, why we ended today, why I thought we could.
But it's time to part, please give back my heart, cause I know it's good.