I’m Popcorn, and this is Week 5 of the UA Adventure Semester, as well as our last week in Paonia, CO! This week, we all came up with self-designed challenges, and in two days, completed them on our own. I chose to write a song on my ukulele, and make a music video for it.
While I might like to produce higher-quality results in the future, I did succeed! Today, at the end of my challenge, I have a complete song written on my own ukulele, and a full video of mountains, the open, cloudless blue sky, aesthetically pleasing trails, all of which I managed to produce in two days. I think that in the future, I’ll continue to be proud of my accomplishment.
Even with my success, however, the challenge was as challenging as I set it to be. I’m inexperienced in songwriting and videography, and much of the time, my lack of confidence was something of a wall to me. I had to hit it and break it down many times to get to my goal. I almost didn’t finish the video at all, and I’m still not entirely satisfied with it.
Still, at the end of the (two) day(s), I have a completed song and a completed video. I’ve come a long way in developing my creative confidence, believing that I can make what I want to. My success means a lot to me – it’s solid proof that I’ve done it, and that I can continue to do it.
Believe in yourself, guys.
Written by Lily Gadkari
Lyrics and chords to the song:
C
You’d expect there to be
G F
Nothing but nonsense written in the void of the sky
A Am
Nothing in the clouds just passing by
C
Can’t you see
G
The flow of time means nothing to me
F A Am
It’s written in the end, that we’ll be free, from everything
G F
Now I know, whoa-oh-oh
C A
that that’s just not the place we’ll go
F
We’ve got too much to love left
G
Too much to live left
A7
Too many minds we don’t know
G C F Am A Am G C
C G
Somewhere, there’s a smile coming back
F A Am
From slipping through the cracks of your anger
C G F
Somehow, it knows that you wasted your life
A Am
Trying to pick up the knife
C G
Behind the smile stands the light
F A
And it means everything will be alright
G F
Now I know whoa-oh-oh
C A
That can’t be the place we go
F
There’s too much peace for a struggle
G
We couldn’t be kept all
C
Hidden and safe in the snow
F G C, Fin
