From the recording 8. Too Fast So S_l_o_w
This song was inspired by a technical difficulty with my music-production software. Although the new version fixes this difficulty, at the time that I wrote this song, the software I was using was incapable of specifying different speeds within the same song, but I wanted to write a song that would have fast, slow, and medium-speed sections within it. The meter in this song actually never changes but I counted out 5 beats used during the 'slow' sections and 4 beats during the medium and fast sections. Also the lead guitar plays fast during the fast sections, so hopefully these musical ploys give the illusion that the song is alternatively speeding up and slowing down. I needed a theme that would go along with such changing tempos and the classic theme I chose was that of the man wanting to get physically intimate more quickly than the woman.
Lyrics
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TOO FAST SO S L O W
Michael Dyer
© 2007
I want to go-it-so-fast,
While she … wants … to … take it … so … slow,
I want to move-it-past-talk,
While she … wants … to … get … to … know … me,
Better than I even know myself, but how can I hold myself back?
How can I stay on track? How can I take up the slack?
‘Cause I want to race-for-the-prize,
While she wants … to just … watch … the sun rise,
I want to leap-to-love-her,
While she … wants … to just ... float … and … hover.
How can I balance that beam, just when I’m about to scream?
How can I hold back my dreams, when I’m about to burst all my seams?
‘Cause I want to dive-for-her-jewels,
While she wants … to just ... wait … by … the pool.
I want to grab-for-the-fruit,
While she … wants … me … just wearing … some … suit.
Oh, how can she be so cruel? Am I just a sorry-ass fool?
How can I slow myself down? Why can’t she speed up her ground?
‘Cause I want to dive-for-her-jewels,
While she … wants … to just ... play … it so … cool.
I want to leap-to-love-her,
While she … wants … to just float … and … hover.
I know I’m moving too fast, but she’s just moving so slow.
O-oh, how can I last? Can she really not know?
Oh, movin’ too-fast. Oh, movin’ … so … slow.
Oh, way-way-too-fast. Oh, so … pain … ... fully … slow.
Oh, way-way-too-fast.
Oh, so … ... so … ... so slow.
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