The Art Of Succinct Compliments (Acoustic) - Summertime's End

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The Art Of Succinct Compliments by Summertime's End, from the album With Love From Where You're Not. Available now digitally and as a physical CD at http://summertimesend.com

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Lyrics:

I know I struggle to find
The way to speak my mind
In twenty five words or less
I never have that success

'Cause sometimes I want to say
All the things that I'm thinking about you baby
It's never seemed to work before
I guess I'll try it just once more

So here I go

You're cute, you're sweet, you're soft, you're smart
You fill the gaps inside my heart
You're nice to hold and hard to leave
You're everything that's good to me

I love your hair, your pretty eyes
The way you leave me mesmerised
I guess there's just one thing that's true
Above the rest - that I love you

I'm sorry if I make no sense
The art of succinct compliments
Has never been a skill of mine
But I'll just do it one more time

So here I go

You're cute, you're sweet, you're soft, you're smart
You fill the gaps inside my heart
You're nice to hold and hard to leave
You're everything that's good to me

I love your hair, your pretty eyes
The way you leave me mesmerised
I guess there's just one thing that's true
Above the rest - that I love you

'Cause all I really have to do
Is tell you how much I love you

Chords:

(Brackets denote half-length chords)
Intro: E B A (E B)
Verse: E G#m A (E B) x2
Pre-chorus: C#m B E E
Chorus: E B A (E B) x2
Post-chorus: E
Verse 2 (same as 1)
Pre-chorus 2
Chorus 2
Post-chorus 2
Bridge: E B A (C#m B)
Outro: same as intro
End on E

About this song:

Whilst I love electronic music, it doesn't come naturally. Most of what I write starts acoustic and then gets adapted with different instrumentation. This song, however, is clearly 'natural', and how I'd write without a computer. I was showing Hayley how I'd made The Art Of Succinct Compliments one day, and started playing around with the instruments, turning the synthesisers into 'real instruments' in Logic. Of course, at this time I promptly forgot Hayley and became engrossed in the music, but it didn't matter - by the day's end I had an acoustic version of the song. Of course, this was cheating, and so I later on made the project from scratch, taking new vocals and instruments and changing the key. It's a fresh change to the album opener, and I can't think of a better way than the 40-second instrumental that lies at the end of the song to close the album. With Love From Where You're Not was my masterpiece, and this was the final stroke of the brush, a sweet aftertaste to leave it on. I hope that after listening to the album, and this track, you agree with this sentiment.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• summertime's
• end
• owl
• city
• christian
• music
• synthpop
• electronic
• with
• love
• from
• where
• you're
• not
• daniel
• throssell

[lakritsixx]

i have been listening to this non-stop for the whole evening. your music is magical. keep up on good work, i wish you all the best :)

[summertimesend]

@lakritsixx Thanks :) I'll do my best! Hopefully I'll be able to make this version better on my next album :)

[abigailyw]

I like this better than your electronic version for some reason.

[summertimesend]

@abigailyw I hate this version. Haha. I'm redoing it on my next album. It should be much better then ;)

[hikarisan925]

in letting go of despondence and despair, i googled "happy songs" and found your channel through wiki answers. i'm loving your electronic sound and your sweet and mostly cheerful jitties!! more power to you!!!

[summertimesend]

@hikarisan925 Awesome! I'm glad you found it. I can't find it when I Google it so you're lucky :P Thank you so much for listening and I hope you enjoy my new stuff as much when I release it :)

[Erin55465]

this song has replaced hot air balloon by owl city for being my happy song(: by far :D

[Cruel3mo]

perfect lyrics to giv me baby

[summertimesend]

@halperinio Thanks! I promise I'm working on it ;)

[halperinio]

this version is really diffrent i dont know how but i could tell this is diffrent but still so good make and upload more songs! haha

[summertimesend]

@43211qazxsw You can try Googling for it, I think it's somewhere on the internet. Alternatively watch my latest podcast, I show you how to play it.