Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I am not the artist of the art. Art done by caveman: wallpapercave.com/wp/wp1865019.jpg
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I wrote this song during the previous semester of college. Finals were starting to kick in and I was missing my old friends. Little bit of a dark time for me. It wasn’t the hardest time of my life so far, but it did inspire me to write this song.
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(Now it’s time for “My Talk On Music Nerd Stuff About Writing This Song That Only Music Nerds Will Understand”, or as I like to call it “M.T.O.M.N.S.A.W.T.S.T.O.M.N.W.U.”)

If you don’t know, I write my songs in “AABA” form. In the first A section (about 0:13) I use a 4-chord progression, but not just any 4-Chord Progression, "THE 4-Chord Progression”. To be clear I think “the 4-Chord Progression” is 3 major and one specific minor chord, in any order and key, not I-V-vi-IV (If you want to know why I think this, ask in the comments). I absolutely hate this chord progression, so why did I use it??? I wanted to make sure I could establish the key of the song (which is C minor by the way) with what people will recognize the most, the 4-Chord Progression. But then in the second A section (about 0:48), I take away the 1 chord. This adds a lot of tension (or loneliness if you will) to the song. If you don’t know the 1 chord in western music is the chord that feels like home. It’s the chord that makes you feel at ease. In fact, I stop playing the note C all together until the end of the B section (2:00). But I do not play it over the 1 chord, I play it over weird chords that sounds off. I do this to help remind you what the key is, but not resolve the tension. I never play the 1 chord after (about 0:40), so the song is permanently unresolved. Like a sentence with no period
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