Violet Wants It Her Way

Info
I'm not sure where I got the inspiration for these lyrics, but I think, in spite of being fairly mellodramatic, they're some of the better ones I've written. This song is one other Song Fight! folks remember and mention to me, and JB had Puce do a cover of it a couple years back for Cover Fight. Puce's cover was awesome, and tied with Frankie Big Face's also excellent cover of "Violet Wants It Her Way" by Jon Eric. I cringe now at the acoustic guitar which I recorded plugged directly into the mixer, and at the crappy sounding drums. The singing is pretty good considering this is only the fifth song I'd attempted to sing. I'm still working on trying to be able to play this and sing it at the same time. I gave it a shot at Song Fight! Live '06 in Santa Cruz. At Song Fight! Live '05 in Boston Erin sang it for me, which was really nice.

Lyrics

another day of overcast
pray for spring to come at last
for something in this world
to hold on to

it seems a storm is coming down
there's a sickness in the clouds
and violet's got a thought
she can't let go of

chorus
now the ice hangs heavy in the sky
only violet sees how we'll survive
somehow we will keep warm in the night
we must do it, and we must do it violet's way

now the mornings are all cold
and i wake up feeling old
the weeks are just a blur
i can't keep track of

i wonder where she's leading me
through this desperate mystery
and have i gone too far
to turn back now

chorus

bridge
and hope it gets us through the day
'cause hope is all we have 
to sustain us now
everything else has run out
and we need a saving grace

violet wants it her way
so that's the way it's gonna be
there's somethin' 'bout that girl
i can't say "no" to

violet wants it her way
so for me there's no escape
soon there will be blood
on my hands

chorus

Etc.
Two tracks of acoustic doing the main finger picked part, two harmonizing lead acoustic tracks, a slide electric guitar, MIDI upright bass and brush drums and strings, and just one vocal track.