“Your Rainy Day”
Tune: “Your Rainy Day” by Brian Chartrand, copyright 2010 FLYING LESSONS MUSIC ASCAP
Type: Live in the studio.
Band: Vocals and Guitar by me.
I awoke from a nap on a plane headed to Phoenix from Minneapolis on August 9th with this chorus’ melody in my head. I sang the melody into my phone to remember it (similar to how my tune “Don Quixote” was written). By the time I landed, I had the words to the chorus … “I promise you, I promise you, I’ll be your rainy day.” Sometimes, when writing a melody, you start to add words to the music almost at random. And sometimes, if the rhythm of the word fits nicely, you keep that word, and build the other lyrics around it. For some reason, that whole line fit really nicely in the chorus, so I kept it and started to write the verses around the chorus.
However, at some point a couple days later, it dawned on me that I had heard this chorus before. Like, many, many years before. Shortly thereafter, I realized that I subconsciously jacked the chorus of a Cure tune (see “Just Like Heaven”) which has a very similar chorus. It was too close for comfort, so I altered the melody a little and changed the words in order to avoid a Cease and Desist letter.
For those of you who have tried to get to know someone over Facebook, you know the sometimes voyeuristic feeling of peering into someone’s life…
