Song Lyrics

Natasha Bedingfield - These words

These words are my own

Threw some chords together
The combination D-E-F
It’s who I am, it’s what I do
And I was gonna lay it down for you
Try to focus my attention
But I feel so A-D-D
I need some help some inspiration
(But it’s not coming easily)
Whoah oh...

Trying to find the magic
Trying to write a classic
Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know?
Waste bin full of paper
Clever rhymes, see you later

These words are my own
From my heart flow
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way
To better say
I love you, I love you

Read some Byron, Shelly and Keats
Recited it over a hip-hop beat
I'm having trouble saying what I mean
With dead poets and drum machines
I know I had some studio time booked
But I couldn't find a killer hook
Now you've gone and raised the bar right up
Nothing I write is ever good enough

These words are my own
From my heart flow
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
There's no other way
To better say
I love you, I love you

I'm getting off my stage
The curtains pull away
No hyperbole to hide behind
My naked soul exposes
Whoah...oh..oh..oh..whoah..oh

Trying to find the magic
Trying to write a classic
Waste bin full of paper
Clever rhymes, see you later

These words are my own
From my heart flow
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you

That's all I've got to say
Can’t think of a better way
That's all I've got to say
I love you, is that ok?

After reading the lyrics, we realised the song is about to trying to write a song. In the first verse, it talks about trying to find the right chords and notes for the song but it is not as easy as she initially thought as she is struggling to focus her thoughts.
In the bridge she is saying how she is still struggling to write her song. She has made many attempts but is failing and throws her papers in the bin and says goodbye to them.
In the chorus, she talks about trying to find the right words to write a love song for someone. She decides that the only way to say it is simply "I love you".
In the second verse she is looking at different poets’ works to try and find inspiration but it still not having any luck and can’t find a way to get her thoughts and feelings down on paper. She then says how she booked some time in a studio to record her song but she failed to do this because she didn't have a song good enough written on time. She then complains about how the expectations of her have been raised and how no song that she writes will ever be good enough.
The chorus is then repeated.
In the third verse she says how she is getting off her stage, we interpreted this as she had finally given up as she had realised that her song was not as good as she wanted it to be. "The curtains pull away" and she has to face up to the fact that she has nothing and she can’t exaggerate her feelings to make her song any better, so she is exposed as an ordinary person and not the amazing song writer she wanted to be.
The bridge is then repeated then the chorus is repeated twice.
She then sings the chorus one last time but changes the last three lines. In this chorus she completely gives up on her song as she "can't think of a better way" All she wanted to do initially was to write a perfect love song but the expectations were so high that she failed. Because of this she ended her song with a question, "I love you, is that ok?" expressing what she aimed to say throughout the song.
As well as analysing the lyrics we have also been discussed what we will be trying to achieve in our video at each part of the song. We have decided that there will be majority of performance when it comes to singing the verses so we will be filming in the media production suite for that bit and using the green screen to make it look more professional. We will be using close-up, medium and long shot and will attempt to continuously cut between them to make the video look more interesting for the audience opposed to the protagonist juts staying in one shot through out.
A narrative piece will be used when it comes to the chorus to illustrate the protagonist trying to write a song. And we will use close up to show her frustration. We will also be using medium long and extreme long shots for variation in this piece. We have also came up with another idea for out video which is stop motion and we will use it in the parts for 'I love you' and 'waste bin full of paper' to help make the video look interesting.