ira - music

Hi Shelly!
On this page you will find two songs that I wrote during September (and I would like to hear your feedback on them) and few songs with music videos that I made before joining the Platinum program (so that you get the idea of who I am as an artist/songwriter).

I have only one English song at the moment, so I've made a translation for Russian songs (sorry if it's not perfect) and put some explanations (in brackets) so that you get a meaning. I'm a rather good poet in Russian but not (yet) in English unfortunately.

Looking forward to our zoom meeting!

1) Внутри себя (Inside myself)
Words, music and everything else :) by ira

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/ira-yohng/ira-vnutri-sebya-...


Inside myself
Verse 1:
Your emptiness screams
You want me.
My peace is silent
I feel good alone.

Сhorus 1:
Fill the emptiness (that you feel inside yourself) with sandwiches
Drown out the scream with music (so that your don't hear your soul screaming)
Cover up your pain with concealer (like you would cover pimples, wrinkles or other issues)
But without me.

Post-chorus:
I'm inside myself
I'm inside myself
I'm inside myself
I am

Verse 2:
Leave me alone, let go
You can't grab me.
I will pass through your fingers like air.
We go separate ways.

Chorus 2:
Pretend that everything is as it should be
Smile with bared teeth (don't show anybody that you are sad, smile!)
Patch your soul with a band-aid (like you would patch some part of your body that hurts)
But without me.

Post-chorus:
I'm inside myself
I'm inside myself
I'm inside myself
I am

I'm inside myself
I'm inside myself
I'm inside myself
I am

Only me
Only me
Me
Only me
__________
In the choruses I'm proposing (in a sarcastic way) to the person I'm talking to overcome his inner pain and feeling of emptiness by destructive ways like compulsive overeating ("fill your emptiness with sandwiches") and I'm using metaphors when I'm proposing to "cover up a pain with concealer" (like a woman would cover up pimples or wrinkles or some other issues) or "patch the soul with a band-aid" (like we would patch something that hurts). I'm proposing to do all those things that people actually do quite often, and then I'm saying "but without me". Cause I'm honest with myself, and I'm ok with myself, and I don't want to lie to myself and others and do all that silly things, so "do it if you like but without me".
2) Я пью вино (I'm drinking wine)
Words, music and everything else :) by ira

I wrote this song as a joke actually. I was talking to my husband and son that maybe I am too dramatic in my music (if you listen to the last song at the page you'll get what I mean). So I was joking that I should write smth primitive like "я пью вино-о-о-о-о-о-о" ("I'm drinking wine", it's the chorus now) so that people like it :) And my son liked the idea so much and he was singing it during the whole day and the next day (and he is still singing it every day!) so I decided that it was not a bad idea, and made the song :) And I like it, it's not so primitive, but it's very simple, funny and sarcastic.

I wanted it to be a viral song that you just can't get out of your head. And it really works for my son (he's 9 btw) :)) I hope it will work for other people too.

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/ira-yohng/ira-ya-pyu-vino/s...


I'm drinking wine
Verse 1:
When the rain is knocking
On the window

I don't care
I'm drinking wine

Сhorus:
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh

Verse 2:
I'll buy popcorn
And go to the cinema
I'll take the wine as well

Сhorus:
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh

Verse 3:
And if
Life is shit
...
I'm drinking wine.


Сhorus:
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'm drinking wine oh oh

And don't blame me
It is non-alcoholic

Oh no!
No alcohol
In my wine

And few songs that I made before joining the Platinum program
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1) Why?
Words and music by ira

Sorry, I can't put a Soundcloud link (have a problem with copyrights), so I put a music video only...

I wrote this song during TSA 555 challenge as an exercise. My first English song. And my first collaboration (with a guitarist and a sound engineer)
Why?
Verse 1:
Why the sky is blue?
Who is making rain?
When you're leaving me
Why do I feel pain?

When you say to me
That you need to rest
I am so confused
But I'll do my best.

Will you be with me
After we all die?
I don't want to leave
I'm not getting why

Life is so unfair.
Mummy please don't die.
Stay forever near.
Stay forever by.

Verse 2:
Why I'm so alone
So unloved and lost?
I am wandering here
As an ugly ghost.

Looking in the sky
For almighty God
I can't even find
Myself, which is odd.

What's the use of it?
Of those boring days?
I would like to leave.
I don't want to stay

For my eyes are blind
And my ears don't hear.
I would like to leave
But I'm staying here.

Chorus 1:
Embrace me, so I can feel your love
Embrace me, so I can feel your love
Embrace me, I'm so cold inside
Embrace me, so I can feel your love

Verse 3:
Now I see my path
Through the darkest night
Leading to the truth
And it feels so right:

Until I love you
It all makes sense.
And my love for You
Never ends.

Chorus 2:
Well, I embrace you, so you can feel my love
I embrace you, so you can feel my love
I embrace you to make you warm inside
I embrace you, so you can feel my love
2) Не выходи из комнаты (Don't leave the room)
Words by J. Brodsky
Music and performance by ira

I used lyrics by a famous Russian poet and made an experiment with a rap style :)
(not sure if you need to read it, lyrics is not mine anyway...)

It's a social song in support of Belarusian people. We've survived a lot of violence during the last year. I've got the idea to write a song based on Brodsky's poem after we got an sms from police saying "If you want to be safe, please stay home, don't go to the meetings". It reminded me this sarcastic poem by Brodsky.

And then I released an EP "Brodsky" with 5 songs based on his poems, here it is: https://open.spotify.com/album/7dO7I1LoBB723qXuhS1...

Still not sure if I can use his poems and have no problems with copyrights...
DON'T LEAVE YOUR ROOM, DON'T COMMIT THAT FATEFUL MISTAKE…
Verse 1:
Don't leave your room, don't commit that fateful mistake.
Why risk the sun? Just settle back at home and smoke.
Outside's absurd, especially that whoop of joy,
you've made it to the lavatory--now head back straight away!

Don't leave your room, don't go and hail a taxi, spend,
the only space that matters is the corridor, its end
a ticking meter. She comes by, all ready for caressing,
mouth open? Kick her straight out, don't even start undressing.

Chorus 1:
Don't leave your room, just say you have the influenza.
A wall and table are the most fascinating agenda.
Why leave this place? Tonight you will come home from town
exactly as you were, only more beaten down.

Verse 2:
Don't leave your room. Go dance the bossa nova,
shoes without socks, your body bare and coat tossed over.
The hallway holds its smells of ski wax and boiled cabbage,
writing even one letter more is excess baggage.

Don't leave your room. Do you still look handsome?
Just ask the room… Incognito ergo sum,
as petulant Substance once remarked to Form.
It's not exactly France outside. Don't leave your room!

Chorus 2:
Don't be an idiot! You're not the others, you're an exclusion!
Choreograph the furniture, essay wall-paper fusion.
Make that wardrobe a barricade. The fates require us
to keep out Cosmos, Chronos, Eros, Race and Virus!

3) Бескрайняя ночь (Endless night)
Words and music by ira

My first song after a long long break in songwriting. I've recorded it a year ago during tragical events in Belarus (a lot of violence towards belarusian people after the presidential election)
Endless night
Towards the winds
On the paths along the eternity
By stolen dreams
And broken carelessness
On the rivers of my tears
On steep slopes
I go
Inhaling shakily.

The leaves whisper to me
About a sad fate:
You got
what I couldn't do
.
But I'm not going there
There is no turning back.
I'm a pariah in this area
I walk like a ladder
Into my personal hell.

How to turn off halfway?
They say it's useless ...
Black abyss
Lies ahead.

My last step
I'll leave it for the evening.
Endless night
Lies on my shoulders.