Posts Tagged ‘ Music

New Song: Believe – cc.tran + YouTube

I love when songs come from random inspirations – one-off lines that friends say.  Zinfandel was one of those songs (“pour me another glass of that wine” – trevor) and I suppose Believe is going to get added to that list (“…as if love has logic” – jesse).

In truth, I wrote most of Believe several weeks ago around Jesse’s birthday actually.  He and I were having a random conversation about love and logic to which he mentioned the line “as if love has logic” which got me to thinking because as a self-proclaimed “intellichick” sometimes I think my logic is the biggest problem.  Emotions aren’t logical in the least (except that it is logical that people have them), but my logic is all about protocol and “yes/no” and – whether I consciously do it or not – I’m always weighing percentages.

So while I’m far from Temprance Brennan of Bones, some of these logical aspects of this song is kind of how I think.  But the thinking isn’t really the focus of the song – it’s the believing, which – for any believer of anything – often has no logic seat of which to rest your laurels on.

Here’s the YouTube.  Hope you like it!

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Past Poetry & New Song: Lie to Me

I always find it amazing the sheer amount of volume of things I have written, tucked away, and forgotten.  The other day I pulled a line from an old poem that was simply “Lie to Me” and on my evening work break I finished up the song I started from that…entitled Lie to Me.  For any Buffy fans, this is not a reference to a Buffy Season 2 Episode, but I applaud you if you did remember that.

This song is about wanting someone to lie to you, not forever but just for a little while.  Where – in hindsight – this can either be good or bad, but I think there’s something to be said about the duration in which you can believe something to be true. 

As in, the validity of parental praise regardless of the truth does build up self-esteem to some degree, no?  So I find that true about moments in life, sometimes people just need a good lie maybe more than the truth.  I think my favorite part of this song that conveys this is in the bridge: “Cause in life when the glass slipper falls/It’ll shatter/And when you’re walking on broken glass/What does it matter?”

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Lyrics:

Lie to Me (cc.tran)

Can you hold on to your honesty?
Can we linger longer here?
Yes I’m saying lie to me
Oh – don’t take me away from here.

Chorus
Cause there’s gotta be more to this
There’s gotta be more than just this rush
And if that’s not the truth
Lie to me enough
Can you just lie to me
Can you just lie to me
Just let me be-lieve
I’m not saying die with me
Or even side with me
Just let me have enough.

You and I were dancing to a melody
Only you and I could hear
You were leading
I didn’t question destiny
I just wanted you near

Chorus


Cause in life when the glass slipper falls
It’ll shatter – oh oh oh
And when you’re walking on broken glass
What does it matter - oh oh oh

If you just lie to me
Can you just lie to me
Just let me be-lieve
I’m not saying die with me
Or even side with me
Just give me enough.

-cct

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So Special: Music Video

In all my zaniness, I forgot to post the music video I made for “So Special” – didn’t make any money for Equality California, but I still believe in the cause.

The video features photos from the Anti-Prop 8 Protest in Silver Lake I attended after its passing.

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Music on Last.FM – cc.tran

my music on last.fm - cc.tran

my music on last.fm - cc.tran

Some of my music is now available on last.fm – http://www.last.fm/music/cc.tran.  Hope you enjoy.  All music available there is purchasable on amiestreet.com

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Blog Posts: Erykah Badu, Ziggy Marley, Gregorio Luke/Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera artwork from Gregorio Luke Mural event at the Ford Theatre

Diego Rivera artwork from Gregorio Luke Mural event at the Ford Theatre

Just a smattering of blog posts from my other gig:

Been roaming the town with the summer season in starting to be in full swing (though June gloom is also full swing).  So there’s more where all that came from.  I have 3 events I haven’t done write-up’s…

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