#re-arrange

I got a lotta love and I got a lotta ways to show it But you should know by now that I’m broken and I need your help I wrote a hundred songs to make sense of the meaningless I’ll un-write them all if you help me clean up this mess

‘Cause I would never break your heart I would only rearrange All the other working parts Will stay in place Listen to me when I say Darling, you’re my everything I didn’t mean to hesitate Please, stay with me

Got a lotta rage and I’m struggling with ways to control it When I wake in the morning I’ve forgotten what it is to cope I scratch at my eyes and it renders me visionless Even in the dark what I want isn’t what I need

‘Cause I would never break your heart I would only rearrange All the other working parts Will stay in place Listen to me when I say Darling, you’re my everything I didn’t mean to hesitate Please, stay with me

Lie down Lie down Lie And know Lie down Lie down Lie And know

And I'm struggling with ways to control it

When I wake in the morning

I've forgotten what it is to cope

I scratch at my eyes

And it renders me vision less

Even in the dark

Sticking with the quiet for a few more songs in my “30 Days of Biffy Clyro”, in celebration of the impending release of their new album A Celebration of Endings, this time I picked one of my favourite Biffy ballads, the hauntingly lyrical Re-Arrange, from their most recent album Ellipsis.  Enjoy the official video, which does feature the other members of the band but really is basically just sexy frontman Simon Neil being sexy ...

This is a gift to "Melon",on SoundCloud. It's somewhat of a re-arrange of one of their original character's themes.

Since the character this theme is supposed to be for is an important and strong one, I was asked to make it sound like a stage 6/last boss theme. It should include the main motif from its original, too. The character, Ayaka, is a youkai (a creature originating from japanese myths)who once was a grand library that eventually came to life. I was asked to include her personality in the piece as well; a mixture of naive, friendly and generous, yet powerful and a little "show-off-y". At first this presented a problem for me, because I needed to figure out how to make this piece playful and majestic at the same time. Luckily, the idea to use a marimba and a harpsichord as instruments to enhance these feelings was found pretty quickly, so I was able to combine my usual set of instruments with them. I must say I am quite proud of how it turned out in the end, especially the differences between playful and majestic, as shown by the different types of instruments. Of course I had somewhat of a head start because I had a nice reference to work with. This in particular made the choice of melodies much easier for me.  ;)

I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I do ~  ♪

This track belongs to it's rightful owner, "Melon". I only reserve rights as the composer.

You can listen to Melon's original track here: https://soundcloud.com/melon-29/uncontrived-flourishing