Have you ever watched a movie and heard the music that’s playing in the background?
Have you ever just been drawn to sing along with the music from the song without even knowing what the song was.
Well that’s me. I am the guy that can’t hear music without coming up with my own words to it.
I used to have no confidence or self esteem. I never thought I was good at anything no matter what anyone said. I used to dream of becoming a great country singer so people would like me. I thought being a rock star would make me happy. Or maybe even a rap star...
Ok, so that was a little too far fetched. I used to dream about what it would be like to be loved. I felt so ugly inside that I thought everyone else looked at me the way I looked at myself. A lot of things happened to me when I was younger that had me messed up for a long time. It took a long time for me to look at myself as a person and not just a piece of trash. By the time l finally found confidence, it was too late. I found myself in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary doing life with out parole.
l always loved making up my own lyrics to random songs that I heard on TV and the radio. And thanks to the help of a digital recorder that accidentally left the possession of an officer at a misconduct hearing I was able to record my songs as I was singing them instead of having to stop to write them down and then trying to get back on track. It took me going to two more prisons before they found it, thanks a lot captain.
Well it sucked to loose it, but by then I had ‘acquired” some composition note books and had filled up 5 of them with nothing but lyrics to the music from my dreams and some nightmares.
In my dreams I could be anybody that I wanted to. I could go anywhere and do anything. But in this world I was nothing,.
I had so many dreams that I would get out of prison and I could become a singer and make people smile and forget the pain of the world that we all live in. It took me 17 years to finally realize that I was never getting out of prison. For me this is the end of the line.
Now l am letting go of those dreams.
They no longer belong to me.
My days in the sun are over with.
And seriously, as I was writing that I was coming up with a song about a guy preparing to commit suicide. No l am not going to kill myself, time will do that for me.
I just know its time to let go of a world that no longer belongs to me. The world is changing and passing me by on its way to tomorrow.
So my 72 year old accomplice in creativity is putting all my song lyrics for sale on this site. They are songs that I have written over a 22 year period. I will never get the chance to sing them to some beautiful woman who is wiling to hold me for just a moment, but that’s okay. Hopefully one of them lets two people fall in love. Maybe they can have the love that I lost a long time ago. Does this mean that I am done writing songs...
No.
I saw something on TV that made me question my future as a writer. I saw writers striking and they didn’t want any Al written content. I was like what the hell is Al. I am in prison and they freak out if we are even next to a computer with access to the internet.
It turns out that Al is some sort of computer algorithm that can write like people or something like that. I guess they can write music and sing like real people. I know that my days as a song writer are numbered.
If they don’t know how to now, i am sure that one day Al computers will take over my job.
You may not think so, but too many singers are just performers and sing other peoples songs. What happens when the right producer figures out how to use the Al to write songs. We become obsolete.
So here is my legacy before i become obsolete
If you are interested in purchasing any of these songs, please let me know. I never got a chance to have children but I have two nephews that I can call and tell my jokes to and possibly buy them extra cookies.
Thank you for taking the time to look at this site. Hopefully you let one of these songs take you to a better world, at least for just a moment
Jason Bales
