Feeling It

Robert James

The RPM Challenge does weird things to a guy, I tell you. The chorus to this one popped into my head, fully formed, at about 9:15pm on Saturday February 27. I wrote the whole thing that night, including lyrics and melody, and recorded all but the vocals, which were done on the morning of February 29, thank you Leap Year.

I think this is my favorite song from the whole month. Weird how that happens, eh?

The lyrics are political and they are supposed to be positive. Senator Sanders is getting my vote in the Massachusetts primary tomorrow, but I really don’t think he can win the nomination. So the song is positive in that I believe in the guy, but negative in that I think he’s going to lose. Yeah, I just suck at positivity.

Chorus

They say that you can’t win
They say that there’s no chance
They say that it’s a lost cause
They say you can’t advance

verse 1

radical ideas
against the status quo
change the way we do things
the system moves too slow

verse 2

they’re too big to fail
they will put up a fight
stand against the mainstream
stand for what’s right

middle 8

there’s always hope for the underdog
There’s always room for new ways
there’s always people who can go that far
who cares what others say