Gone Shopping

Song number 5 in my attempt (doomed for failure) to write a song for every week in 2010. My wife went shopping last night and I got the idea for this song. The melody in the first line of this song is exactly the same as the melody in the first line of my first Song A Week "Heart in a Bottle." This was unintentional.

Recently there has been some discussion on the FAWM boards about unintentional theft in creating songs. This is where a songwriter uses a melody or part of another song in his or her own songs and doesn't realize it until after the fact. In this case I did it to myself. And it did sound familiar. It wasn't until I ate breakfast and re-listened that I figured it out. Sometimes speed writing is awesome and sometimes not so much...





Gone Shopping

You said you were going to the store
You were coming back in a minute
Hours later and you’re not here
It’s an empty bed without you in it

You’ve been gone the whole damn evening
I don’t know where you’ve been
It doesn’t matter anymore
What kind of trouble you’re in

I feel. I feel so bad.
I feel. I feel so bad.
You left me all alone
Out here on my own

If you come back to me this evening
I will hold you in my arms
I feel lost when you’re not here
So let me keep you from harm

I feel. I feel so bad.
I feel. I feel so bad.
You left me all alone
Out here on my own

© 2010 T.C. Elliott