SNAPSHOT: The Killing Kind

I was on a Skype call with my parents yesterday. I had just sent them an mp3 of a new song and my mom asked me what it was about. I avoided answering the question because it’s not always easy to say what a song is about. I mean..I know what I’m trying to say but if it were that easy to just say it I wouldn’t probably write a song about it. I’d just say it. But then a lot of things I write songs about aren’t that tricky to say or explain. So what’s the deal?

There are times, I think when I write about a thing that is complex in the sense that it’s not just an idea that words can express but it’s got a lot of personal history and some sort of emotional baggage attached to it. It’s the sort of stuff I might share with one or two people but I might not want to tell everyone. So the idea and the personal history and the emotional baggage get distilled into this 3 minute song and hopefully there’s enough there to make the listener think something and feel something…and hopefully not turn it off half-way through.

A few weeks back I wrote one of those kinds of songs and I’m really proud of it. I’ve been playing it around town a bit and usually I get a few positive comments and I’ll notice a couple of people nod and smile as if to say… “yeah, that’s pretty much the way it is.” It’s a song about my journey here in Nashville and I guess there’s a little more to it than that. If you’ve been through everything I’ve been through or at least something really close to it you might know exactly what I’m saying. If not then you may get something completely different from it. I’d like to say that I write songs to be a little bit universal so that everyone can get something from it. The truth is that I just write songs. I don’t think much about who it’s for or why I write them when I write them. I just love the process of it all so I keep doing it. Mostly I write songs for myself I think and luckily a few people seem to like them.

So here’s “The Killing Kind”. I hope that there’s something in it for you. It's free to download and share....

The Killing Kind by timpepper

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