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Thursday, September 1, 2011

"Be Careful What You Wish For"/"All We'd Ever Need"

I know, whoever you are out there reading this blog, I am sure you are sick and tired of me talking about the good ole 'Myspace' days...but this one is interesting, I swear!!  I want to say in about 2006, I came across Hillary Scott's Myspace.  Although I discovered a ton of people on there, she always stood out.  Well, on her page she had a solo version of "I Was Here," which was incredible.  I remember hearing that song and somehow, regardless of how many miles and cyberspace...I felt connected.  The power of music people.  Anyways, through following her, I remember her posting about writing for something called 'Lady Antebellum."  Yes, I googled what 'Antebellum' meant, I had never heard of it before.  Well, around 2007, through following her, I found out she created another Myspace under Lady Antebellum that had these incredible songs, unlike I had ever heard before, posted on their site.  Well, I didn't think anything of it, just that she was in a band and was a solo act.  Well, as I was getting ready to go to take a trip to Nashville, I noticed that they were playing a show at a place called 3rd & Lindsley.  Since I was following them on Myspace and this was going to be my 1st time in Nashville, I made it a priority that we go to this show!  Anyways, long story short, we never went...blame it on our 14 hour drive.  Well, little did I know that show would be the first show 3 individual songwriters played as a band called "Lady Antebellum."  I knew them when "Home Is Where The Heart Is" was "Mason Dixon Line" and was a work tape.  Crazy?!  Well, to this day, this video I saw of them playing from that show has always been one of my all time favorite songs...and of course, it's unrecorded.
Well here it: "Be Careful What You Wish For"


However, that was not the first song that I heard from them.  It was this amazing song, that I heard as work-tape, that is, in my eyes, one of the best songs they have ever recorded & NOT released as a single.  Coincidentally, this is the first song they had ever written together.  Magic?  I think so.  This song literally opened my eyes to writing a vulnerable ballad.  This melody, these lyrics...it doesn't get more raw and amazing than this!


FM Radio:
Singers: Lady Antebellum
Writers: Hillary Scott, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley
Song: "All We'd Ever Need"
Boy it's been all this time,
and I can't get you off my mind,
and nobody knows it but me.
I stare at your photograph,
still sleep in the shirt you left,
and nobody knows it but me.
Everyday I wipe my tears away,
so many nights I've prayed for you to say.

I should have been chasing you,
I should have been trying to prove,
that you were all that mattered to me,
I should have said all the things,
that I kept inside of me and maybe,
I could have made you believe,
that what we had was all we'd ever need.


My friends think I'm moving on,
but the truth is I'm not that strong and nobody knows it but me.
I've kept all the words you said,
in a box underneath my bed,
and nobody knows it but me.

But if you're happy I'll get through somehow,
but the truth is that I've been screaming out.

(Repeat Chorus)

It was all we'd ever need.

Oh, I thought it was all we'd ever need.

I should have been chasing you,
You should have been trying to prove,
that you were all that mattered to me,
Oh, you should have said all the things,
that I kept inside of me and maybe,
You could have made me believe,
that what we had girl,
Oh, that what we had
What we had
It was all we'd ever need



My favorite performance:

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