{"id":47,"date":"2008-03-24T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-03-24T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T19:32:00","slug":"american-idol-songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/american-idol-songwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol Songwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I entered the competition, wasting $10, probably, and writing one of the sappiest songs of my songwriting life.<\/p>\n<p>EXTREMELY ROUGH DEMO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalschizo.com\/onlyjustthestart.mp3\">Only Just The Start<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Lyrics:<\/b><br \/><i>It&#8217;s always been my passion, it&#8217;s always been my life<br \/>It&#8217;s time to take action, I just want to get it right<br \/>Will they see just who I am, will their words cut me like a knife<br \/>Can I give my everything so my star can shine so bright<\/p>\n<p>I have waited all my life to sing a song for you<br \/>I have battled through the tough times and worked to see it through<br \/>And now I stand before you, and open up my heart<br \/>This is not an ending, it&#8217;s only just the start<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve shared with me your courage, you&#8217;ve given me such hope<br \/>Don&#8217;t want to be discouraged, I just want you all to know<br \/>That it&#8217;s taken me so far, all the love and all you do<br \/>That I&#8217;ll give my everything, and I&#8217;ll give it all to you<\/p>\n<p>I have waited all my life to sing a song for you<br \/>I have battled through the tough times and worked to see it through<br \/>And now I stand before you, and open up my heart<br \/>This is not an ending, it&#8217;s only just the start<\/p>\n<p>All the times I will cherish, memories of you and me<br \/>And our love will not perish, you know it will forever be<br \/>And as I walk uncertain, to a future where we part<br \/>This is not an ending, it&#8217;s only just the start<\/p>\n<p>This is not an ending, it&#8217;s only just the start<\/p>\n<p>This is not an ending, it&#8217;s only just the start<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Schmaltzy almost to the point of being disgusting, but I think it&#8217;s appropriate for the &#8220;I just won American Idol&#8221; song.<\/p>\n<p>But who knows? Maybe by some freak act of chance I&#8217;ll be a finalist. It took me 20 minutes to throw it together, so not too much time wasted on the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I entered the competition, wasting $10, probably, and writing one of the sappiest songs of my songwriting life. EXTREMELY ROUGH DEMO: Only Just The Start Lyrics:It&#8217;s always been my passion, it&#8217;s always been my lifeIt&#8217;s time to take action, I just want to get it rightWill they see just who I am, will their words cut me like a knifeCan I give my everything so my star can shine so bright I have waited all my life to sing a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/american-idol-songwriter\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}