Resolution #190: Adapt My Poem "Bottles On My Floor" Into A Follow-Up Hit To "Eat Dem Beets"!!!

Date: 7-9-2014

Due Date: 7-9-2015

Resolution: About 20 years ago, before I wrote screenplays, I wanted to write punk songs. Most of these songs ended up being nothing more than bad poetry but some of them may be worth revisiting. Since then I've pretty much given up on listening to music let alone any attempts to write it.

Well, other than "Eat Dem Beets."

I'm currently trying to learn to play the guitar as part of Resolution #61. Today I figured I might be a little more motivated if I was trying to learn the guitar in order to create a riff for an original song that I've written.

Of all the "songs" that I've ever written "Bottles On My Floor," is the only one that I can think of that might be worth putting music behind.

This may or may not go through a rewrite, but here are the lyrics that I'll be starting with.

Bottles On My Floor

There are no parties up the street
and TV is a bore.
Alone in my bedroom
with bottles on my floor.
Only one person drinking,
but the piles are galore.
Alone in my bedroom
with bottles on my floor.
My liver is so swollen,
yet still I will drink more.
Alone in my bedroom,
with bottles on my floor.
Up all night without it,
but with it I do snore.
Alone in my bedroom,
with bottles on my floor.
I never have a visitor,
yet every night I score.
Alone in my bedroom,
with bottles on my floor.
I ran out of words to rhyme,
and cannot write no more.
Alone in my bedroom,
with bottles on my floor.

Result #190: I Already Have The Melody… But I'm Still Learning To Play The Guitar… So I Failed To Create The Needed Music For This Task…

Update #1: The Conclusion…

Date: 7-9-2015

As with a lot of these resolutions, I think I got a little too ambitious with this one. In order for it to have worked as planned, I not only had to go from never touching a stringed instrument to learning how to play the guitar, on my own, as an adult, to then compose a song. All this while trying to juggle 365 other tasks. 

Some day I hope to be able to focus on my Rocksmith lessons and actually learn to play the guitar on my own. When that happens I will figure out a guitar lick to go along with the lyrics to "Bottles On My Floor," and share it as my follow-up single to "Eat Dem Beets."