Voodoo Love
Apr. 16th, 2023 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperMy brain seems to be determined to produce some songs lately.
I woke up with the idea for this song in my head one day last week. It wasn't hard to pull together the chorus and the tune for the verse. Then I later produced words for the first verse. So far, so good.
Except that I woke up around four or five in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep, as my brain was stubbornly determined to produce another verse. And it did, but since I wasn't clever enough to write it down, it vanished into the ether the next day.
I didn't have time to get back to the song-in-progress and two mornings later, I woke up between four and five in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep, as my brain was stubbornly determined to produce another verse. And it did, but being a slow learner, I didn't write it down and it vanished into the ether again.
I had, by this point, lost way too much sleep to this particular song. So yesterday, I pulled together a bridge and the remaining two verses and declared victory, taking it to Gretchen to try it out. Done.
Except that I decided I wasn't quite happy with the two new verses, so I rebuilt them today after typing them into the computer.
I think I'm done now.
I had *better* be done now.
Because this is getting silly for a fairly lightweight, retro song.
I hope you like it. :)
Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2023
Voodoo Love
(Chorus)
Voodoo love, yeah, I love it when I’m in it.
Voodoo love, ‘cause I’m under your spell.
Voodoo love, let’s put a pin in it.
If voodoo love is crazy, I don’t want to be well.
I took a sip of your magic potion
And saw an angel sent from above.
And now the wheels are in motion,
I find that I’ve got the notion
That I am lost in your voodoo love.
You are the spark that’s there to ignite me,
Your incense burning down in the dark.
You never fail to excite me
And now I know that this might be
The kind of love that’s leaving a mark.
(Bridge)
There’s just no way I can stand it.
It’s just the way that you planned it
And now I’m caught in your voodoo love.
It’s just a tale of a classical hoodoo
Reaching out to give me a shove.
I feel the touch of your voodoo,
A magic mystery that you do
That drives me wild with your voodoo love.
(Chorus twice)
If voodoo love is crazy, I don’t want to be well.
I woke up with the idea for this song in my head one day last week. It wasn't hard to pull together the chorus and the tune for the verse. Then I later produced words for the first verse. So far, so good.
Except that I woke up around four or five in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep, as my brain was stubbornly determined to produce another verse. And it did, but since I wasn't clever enough to write it down, it vanished into the ether the next day.
I didn't have time to get back to the song-in-progress and two mornings later, I woke up between four and five in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep, as my brain was stubbornly determined to produce another verse. And it did, but being a slow learner, I didn't write it down and it vanished into the ether again.
I had, by this point, lost way too much sleep to this particular song. So yesterday, I pulled together a bridge and the remaining two verses and declared victory, taking it to Gretchen to try it out. Done.
Except that I decided I wasn't quite happy with the two new verses, so I rebuilt them today after typing them into the computer.
I think I'm done now.
I had *better* be done now.
Because this is getting silly for a fairly lightweight, retro song.
I hope you like it. :)
Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2023
Voodoo Love
(Chorus)
Voodoo love, yeah, I love it when I’m in it.
Voodoo love, ‘cause I’m under your spell.
Voodoo love, let’s put a pin in it.
If voodoo love is crazy, I don’t want to be well.
I took a sip of your magic potion
And saw an angel sent from above.
And now the wheels are in motion,
I find that I’ve got the notion
That I am lost in your voodoo love.
You are the spark that’s there to ignite me,
Your incense burning down in the dark.
You never fail to excite me
And now I know that this might be
The kind of love that’s leaving a mark.
(Bridge)
There’s just no way I can stand it.
It’s just the way that you planned it
And now I’m caught in your voodoo love.
It’s just a tale of a classical hoodoo
Reaching out to give me a shove.
I feel the touch of your voodoo,
A magic mystery that you do
That drives me wild with your voodoo love.
(Chorus twice)
If voodoo love is crazy, I don’t want to be well.