{"id":586,"date":"2007-03-20T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2007\/03\/2007_03_21_0140.php"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:35:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:35:44","slug":"the-way-it-should-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/20\/the-way-it-should-have-been","title":{"rendered":"The Way it Should Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to redo some of my older songs after getting the T5, because the guitars literally sound like shit when compared to the newer ones I made. I actually started on a couple of them, but I was able to finish the remake for <em>&#8220;The Way it Should Have Been&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As stated [verbatim] in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/music\" title=\"Visit Music Section\">Music Section<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reprise of &#8220;The Way it Should Have Been&#8221; (duh!) with the following changes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A bit faster tempo, so it&#8217;s about 20 seconds shorter than the original.<\/li>\n<li>Re-recorded the guitar part with my <em>Taylor T5<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Changed the percussion section with better sounding instruments (via <em>Reason<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Added a very subtle ambient pad (via Cakewalk <em>Rapture<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Re-done the vocal track with some lyric changes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Over-all, this is a better version, and it&#8217;s just fun to compare it because it shows clearly how much my sound has changed from the last time I recorded it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/134726221&#038;color=ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you feel like it, compare it to the old one below:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306067449%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-Fh1oq&#038;color=ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=true\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<!-- \/\/ --><!--more--><!-- \/\/ -->\n<blockquote>\n<h2>THE WAY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN (REPRISE)<\/h2>\n<p>03\/20\/2007 (originally written: 08\/31\/2003)\nCarlo Santos\nTheme: Complicated love<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>\nHave you ever closed your eyes and see that special smile;\nthe stuff dreams are made of?\nAnd finally seeing that canvas turned to flesh&#8230;\nThen it sends your heart beating and racing again.<\/p>\n<p>But, you find out it&#8217;s something you can&#8217;t have;\nthere&#8217;s a lot that goes around,\nYet, still you try &#8211; knowing fully well that someone else was smiling back.\nNow you&#8217;ve ended something that you shouldn&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHORUS<\/strong>\nThe way it should have been\nwas never this ambiguous&#8230; no reading between the lines.\nIt should have been you and her\/I in that simple equation&#8230; all alone.\nWhispering sweet nothings &#8217;til the break of dawn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II<\/strong>\nAfter all is said and done&#8230; now you&#8217;ve become the villain.\nAnd it breaks your soul that her broken heart&#8217;s the one thing you can&#8217;t mend.\nYou wallow in your guilt and pain.\nIt should be so much simpler now &#8211; if her heart didn&#8217;t love the other &#8217;til the end.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you try to make the best of what is left, &#8216;coz you can&#8217;t let her go.\nBut, you have got to take the pain whenever she says someone else&#8217;s name&#8230;\nand dream of the time it would be yours.<\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The way I should have been; was to never cause you any pain &#8211;\nBut to wait my turn &#8211; even if that proved to be in vain.\nYet, I cant help but take that chance just to be with you.\nAnd if that meant the same old risk &#8211;\nI would do it all again just to see you&#8230;\n&#8230;and I hope by then, you&#8217;d feel the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to redo some of my older songs after getting the T5, because the guitars literally sound like shit when compared to the newer ones I made. I actually started on a couple of them, but I was able to finish the remake for &#8220;The Way it Should Have Been&#8221; As stated [verbatim] &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/20\/the-way-it-should-have-been\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Way it Should Have Been&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[754,803,1093,1170],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-music","tag-media","tag-music","tag-song","tag-the-way-it-should-have-been"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}