process.”
“Okay, well we aren’t going to keep you all very long in here. We want you to get writing so that we can get into the recording booth as soon as possible. We’ll be around if you need anything, also Domino and Bash are usually found in the control room if you need anything from them. I believe Subzero has their instruments here already, is that correct?”
“As far as I know everything is here, set up, tuned and ready to go.” Noah says.
“Alright, let’s get to writing shall we? Please let me know as soon as anything is completed.”
I jump up from my seat, grab a notebook and a pencil and head outside. I walk over to a gigantic oak tree and sit down on the ground in front of it with my back leaning up against the trunk. I pull my iPod out of my pocket, stick the buds in my ears and turn it on. Scrolling to a playlist marked inspiration I hit shuffle all and lean back as the sounds of The Ramones fill my ears.
I need an idea...something to inspire me so I can write something halfway decent. I open the notebook and start sketching the one person that inspires me the most. It isn’t hard to do. I have every inch of her, from the gentle curves of her body to her full, pouty lips, burnt into my mind.
I have the majority of her face sketched out when a shadow falls over me. I glance up to see Cath standing over me, staring down at my drawing. She is saying something to me but I can’t hear whatever it is over the music.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?” I ask, pulling the buds out of my ears.
Cath smiles and gives a short laugh. “I said who are you drawing?”
“Oh. It’s my girlfriend, Abby. I’m trying to get inspired to write something brilliantly amazing.”
Cath stares at the notebook in my hands with an unreadable expression on her face. “Hmm...she’s pretty.”
“Pretty? She’s gorgeous!” I exclaim.
Cath shrugs. “Maybe but...a drawing of some girl isn’t going automatically translate into a song.”
I try to ignore the fact that she just referred to Abby as “some girl” as she grabs my notebook and turns it to a fresh page, but I can’t.
“She’s not just some girl. She’s the girl.” I tell her.
“C’mon,” She says, clearly ignoring what I have just said. “Write a song with me.”
Before I have a chance to say anything at all, Cath settles herself down on the ground next to me.
“Now, what sort of a tone do we want our song to have? How about something that’s dark and seductive?”
I laugh, though I’m not actually sure why. Maybe it’s because I feel slightly awkward around her. It’s almost like I shouldn’t be here with her or something.
“Okay...we could do something like that,” I say. “Have you got any ideas to get us started?”
She bites her lower lip and looks up at the sky with a deep in thought expression on her face. Then she sticks the pencil up in the air and moves it to the paper as she starts writing furiously. I try to glance over her shoulder but can’t really make out what the words say. A few moments later she hands me my notebook so I can see what she has written.
Drowning
By C. Healy and T. McDermott
I see you with her
And I finally realized how much I
Need you with me
By my side
I just can’t stop
I’m drowning
I need your love
To save me now
I just can’t stop
I’m drowning in you
“So what exactly is this song about?” I ask her.
She doesn’t look at me. Instead she focuses her eyes on the words she has just written.
“It’s about wanting to be with someone that is already taken.” She murmurs.
I raise one eyebrow and give her an odd look. Not really a strange topic for a song but something in the way she talks suggests that she has someone in mind. It isn’t my business though so I don’t question her. I take the pencil out of her hand and start where she left off.
I never thought
That I could want
Someone like this
I never knew
That I could crave
Your touch, your kiss
I just