"Bittersweet" genre: Pop
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	Mellow, familiar riff of letting go for all the wrong reasons.
	Credits: Written and performed by Cordell Hurst
	Story Behind the Song The song is about someone I will always miss. What it comes down to is that I blew it...I thought I was helping her by getting rid of me...I hurt us both. Bittersweet took two days to write and lay down with actual recording happening at an hour most people use for sleep. It's amazing what you can do at 2:30 in the morning with an acoustic guitar and a computer...when you just have to get something out of your system. The guitar is the second take on a Martin DCX1E with dead strings plugged into my PC through a Boss Chorus Ensemble. I added flanger during post, then doubled the track, offset it slightly to make it fuller and pulled the balance on the second track to one side. All vocals are mine pushed through a Shure AXS 2. I added delay to bring the presence up on the lead vocals, then doubling the track and offsetting. Backup vocals are all doubled and offset as well as getting a compliment of bells and whistles. All this mess makes for a total of about ten tracks. I have to admit this is all experimental. I've been learning by doing. This is the only program I've ever used for music editing. and I haven't actually even read the manual...now that I think about it, I'm not sure I have one... Lyrics You are my past, you are memories, bittersweet A look in the mirror, and all I see is emptiness As we said good-bye, and I drove away I never knew a cut so deep as when I watched you cry But it makes no difference, no, not anymore Not since I pushed you away Yours was a heart abandoned and mine was a soul adrift In a tide that tore me away from that I loved Hmmm, and how I loved you You I have surrendered, you I have so wronged And yours is a love Ill never know again, all Ive loved is all Ive lost So Im gonna drift away, Im gonna hang head in tempered shame Cause youre always there to remind, me cause youre always on my mind Yours was a heart abandoned, and mine was a soul adrift In a tide that tore me away from that I loved Hmmm, and how I loved you You I have surrendered, you I have so wronged But it makes no difference, no, not anymore Not since I pushed you away Yours was a heart abandoned, and mine was a soul adrift In a tide that tore me away from that I loved, that I loved You are my past, you are memories bittersweet

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