I FINISHED AN ALBUM TODAY

We had enough time today to finish Stay With Me AND Not Just Yet, so now the album is basically FINISHED OMG

We still have to go in for two days (maybe three) in the middle of March, to record all the live drum sounds and mix/master the whole album. But I can sit on my computer and look at this and for now that’s completely awesome:

I was self-involved enough to rate all of the tracks out of 5, but I didn’t wanna influence your opinions this far in advance, so I decided not to show you that bit. (I will say that I gave four of the ten songs a 5 out of 5 rating, but that’s mainly because I’m a twat.)

Stay With Me and Not Just Yet are both love songs with slightly different angles. Stay With Me is more “wow, we’re still together and you haven’t left me yet! I’m so happy about that!”; Not Just Yet is more about spending time with someone (possibly even in a non-romantic sense) and knowing that your time together will soon be over, but getting to enjoy every possible moment before it does. (Thematically it’s also a nice closer to the album – bracket slash wanky)

Lyrics to Stay With Me:

I remember when we met
You turned away
Burned away
We’ll never be the same

Days and weeks and months and years
All this time
Come to find
We’re living on again

If there’s one thing to take away, it’s that I love you

All the times you make me laugh
Falling down
To the sound
Of everything you are

I remind myself sometimes
When I see
You look at me
I find it hard to breathe

The rhymes aren’t perfect but neither are you
Consistently you’re still so much more brilliant than me
Will you stay with me?

And to Not Just Yet:

Goodnight, lay down and close your eyes
All things have to die; but not just yet
I’m here, I’ll always be around
We could both fall down, but not just yet

Tomorrow’s just a day away
But it will always be that way

Goodnight, for now we’ve reached the end
This will start again, but not just yet

Goodnight, our time is all but gone
I’ll have to move on, but not just yet
For now, I want to share my life
You’ll be out of sight, but not just yet

I hope you won’t forget the time we had
When we laughed our way through movies we had paid too much to see
All the photographs that we forgot to take
And the train tickets you told me we should never throw away

I hope you won’t regret the time we had
Stolen glances through the darkness, staying close to fight the cold
All the memories that we forgot to make
And the way you fit a lifetime into every single day
So let’s have one more day

The World Is Mine (I Don’t Know Anything) comes out on July 3rd. =D

x

  • Lily

    Congratufreakinglations!

  • http://www.youtube.com/yourtikken Becky

    'Stay With Me' makes me happy. So happy. It also makes me fappy.

  • Kate8D

    Yaaay!! But… that's so long away :(
    And I kept clicking on the songs until I realised it was a picture. Bit of a blonde moment :(

  • LaurenCB

    Another great lot of lyrics :D
    Can't wait for July – 6 weeks off, summer, my birthday, YOUR ALBUM. :D x

  • Stacey

    July! Why such a long wait? :(

  • Gillian

    Sounds catchy.

  • http://www.youtube.com/unbridged77 unbridged77

    I can't believe we have to wait until July! Congratulations of finishing the album! That is an amazing accomplishment and obviously you have worked really hard! I love your lyrics and I can't wait to hear the whole album!

  • http://twitter.com/PrincessMeg1328 Megan Montoya

    YAY! That's so exciting! Congratulations!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/potterinyourpants oliviaelaine

    Congrats, Alex!
    That's brilliant! Everything being done and all…well…relatively.
    However, June 3rd is very, very far away.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperSabby22 Sabrina

    And July 3rd is even farther! XD

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/potterinyourpants oliviaelaine

    bahaha. That's what I meant xD

  • kaylap

    I really can't wait for this to come out. Recently, you're music has been the only thing I can stand to listen to. Or maybe it's that I can't stand to listen to anything else because now the bar is raised so high after listening to your music. You're way with words is amazing, and mermaids and birds envy your voice.
    I just ordered 117% after receiving allowance, and can't wait.
    You're freaking awesome.

  • Wolfiex

    you just made my morning :)
    and ohmigosh WEL DONE!!!!!!!
    and bdw, im doing holding on for my talent show :/ auditions are today :)

  • http://alexdaymusic.com Alex

    Check out Tom Milsom's album Painfully Mainstream, or Here Comes Science by They Might Be Giants :)

  • jennab20

    YAY!! This looks and sounds like an incredible album. All your hard work is about to pay off!! :)

  • Jen

    I just screamed. Why? July 3rd is my fricking birthday… THANK YOU ALEX…..

  • Weirdo

    'Bracket Slash Wanky' has simply got to be the title of your next album.

    I don't mean that in a mean way, obviously. =0)

  • http://twitter.com/jonesownss Jones

    July, Alex? That's quite a long time to wait! :(

  • SB

    lol. alex, how does it feel to hear that mermaids and birds envy your voice. I know birds envy my voice because I can speak and communicate more effectively using my word and sentence system rather than their tweeting. Not to sure about mermaids though, don't know too much about their voices…I'm not sure mermaids even exist at all.

  • Hayley D

    AAAhhh! Yay ^______^
    What's your favorite song off you're shiny new album? x

  • http://elinious.wordpress.com/ Elinious

    Congratulations :)

    I certainely can't wait until July!

    Question; are you and the other Chameleon Circuit guys gonna make any new songs or even a new album anytime in the future?

  • http://twitter.com/BeckiiCruel Beckii Cruel

    I'm jealous of your itunes :O

  • http://twitter.com/BeckiiCruel Beckii Cruel

    I'm jealous of your itunes :O

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