https://youtu.be/YCy-cu-g8A8I wrote Lately in a strange malaise funk, I get that from time to time, I hate malaise more than outright depression at least like a thunderstorm, depression can be reassuringly incapacitating, but then it passes and the air feels clearer, new ideas are born.
In contrast an ambiguous flat feeling is not that great for very much at all, it is terrible for songwriting and life just passes by, night becomes day, day becomes night and nothing grows.
Lately is about that feeling of desiring change and is a somewhat forced number, written during a time I usually avoid picking up the guitar, I honestly don't know how much I like it, it is...good, but it is good in a workmanlike way, an achievement in which there is the allure of a great song, but I cannot personally tell if it has any emotive reach, it will be up to listeners to help guide my relationship with this.
Sometimes I find with songs like 'Lately' that I've perhaps missed its true meaning and a year from now I might attack it with a new found enthusiasm and purpose.
Hopefully, it is of interest to listeners here and I look forward to the feedback.
Lately
I’ve been searching for the truth
Finding old inside the new
Grown and learned these many years
It’s something that I do
Waking up and wondering
What’s gonna get me through
Had a hard time finding
Your heart of baby blue
Sometimes I feel half the man
I think I was
Stopped tryin’ to do it right
Just because
Lately I’ve got nothing that I can think to say to you
Lately I’ve got nothing on my mind that I need to chew
Lately I’ve been thinking that these wheels are coming loose
Lately I’ve been wishing that I had something else to do
Been taking all the risks
Got nothing left unturned
Stuck around to see the twist
Checked the rumours that I heard
Now I’m a travellin’
To the north or to the south
Been around a long time now
Shooting off my mouth
Sometimes I feel half the man
I think I was
Stopped tryin’ to do it right
Just because
Lately I’ve got nothing that I can think to say to you
Lately I’ve got nothing on my mind that I need to chew
Lately I’ve been thinking that these wheels are coming loose
Lately I’ve been wishing that I had something else to do
Know I’m waiting
For a sign
Find me driving
Through the night
This clocks a running
Slowin’ down
Your hearts all knowin’
Rains coming down
https://youtu.be/YCy-cu-g8A8