On Our Own

Robert James

I have been forgetting to submit songs to the RPM Challenge website’s Record Every Month challenge for a while now, but I have been actually getting the work done and have not yet missed a month. This is October’s submission.

The little guitar harmonic things in the verse sections was originally going to be an electric piano, but I thought this was cooler. I think I made the right choice. Arrangement wise, I think the 16 measure thing in the middle is completely out of place, especially so close to the totally unrelated to the rest of the song ending that I tacked on. I like the verses, I like the chorus, I like the ending. I don’t like that bridge thingie.

The rhythm guitar is a Les Paul Standard 50s into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Ryra The Klone into a Fender Bassbreaker 15. Lead guitars is the same guitar into the same Ryra The Klone into a Keeley D&M Drive into a Washburn AX:9 delay that I found in a box in the cellar and haven’t used since 2005 into the same amp.

Chorus
Let me tell you something
of the things we’ve been through
Let me show you how it could be if we tried

Verse 1
And now we know
This is the way it should be
No time to explain it
Just have to agree

Verse 2 & 3
And so it goes
There’s nothing else left to do
No point in defending
Just try to get through

Bridge
Just want to see it end
Don’t ask me to pretend
Just want to find myself a home
On our own

Outro
On our own
all alone
On our own
Going home