retrospec | [text] i could say i'm sorry but i'm not (except i am. i really, really am.)

I've finally got this song together, but I'm still stumped on the title. I'm putting the lyrics in here for anyone who's got any ideas. Consider this an open call for song title suggestions.

Lyrics:
You punched a hole in my heart, and now
I'm an empty vessel, waiting for the music to fill the blank spaces.
What am I supposed to do now?
Nothing left but to forget all the sneering faces

I feel like a forgotten bag of chips abandoned on the streets, my soul shattered and scattering to the winds like potato leaves.
I’d break the whole world if I could
Just to make sure no one ever has to grieves
Again, and I'd break the whole world but I don't think that I should

The emptiness inside of me is hardening like cement
And now there's nothing that can fit through the cracks and spaces
Nothing left but to watch the spiraling descent
Nothing left but to remember all the sneering faces

I feel like a forgotten bag of chips abandoned on the streets, my soul shattered and scattering to the winds like potato leaves.
I’d break the whole world if I could
Just to make sure no one ever has to grieves
Again, and I'd break the whole world but I don't think that I should

[fade out]

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[It's a terrible place to learn, really.]

Or porn just borrows from everything. It's what gets people to pay attention.

Yes.

...well? Are you gonna say anything about what kind of musician? What type of music?

Come on, that's not a question you can say 'yes' to and then just drop it.

At the moment, I'm a professor of music theory at the university.

I don't think I really ever settled into one genre when I was touring though.

You toured? With who?

Myself.

[There's a delay as she thinks this over, and after a minute he'll get a link to an album entitled 'Smoke Signals.' It was top-twenty album about five years ago, with a #1 hit in on it, 'We All Become.']

[ Holy crap, this person is legit. James remembers this song, it was all that would play on the radio at the time, even when he was living abroad. ]

Whoa. How the hell do you go from that to being a music professor?

Personal choices, mostly.
Circumstances outside of my control.

That and I like teaching.

You like teaching more than you like performing?

It's just a different way to reach people.

It's not the same, of course.

I do miss certain things, though. I mean, who wouldn't?

But my music is still out there. People still listen to it. And I can always make more whenever I want to.

Well, when you put it that way.

So what kind of music stuff do you teach?

Intro to Music Theory, which is the 100 class, and Harmony and Function, which is a 200 level.

And some languages.

[ For being a musician, he sure knows so little about what those classes would entail that he can't even really respond to that. ]

And languages? The surprises just keep on coming.

Which ones?

French, Spanish and sometimes German.

[She was a little bit of a prodigy.]

Jeez, slow down! How do you even have the time to learn three languages, forget about teaching?

I can barely keep up in Spanish class.

I have a bit of a gift for them, if I'm being honest. I started learning when I was pretty young.

It's just a matter of what you're good at, I suppose.

I guess so.

Not like I've got a lot going for me in the "good at stuff" department, though.

That's hardly true.

You wrote a song.
That's more than most people ever do.

You got that right at least.

But nah, I mean it more like. Music's nice but it's just a side thing, you know?

Not to me.
But I suppose.

What is your 'main' thing then?

[ Punching people in the face. ]

Football.

[But he repeats himself.]

Oh? Do you play professionally?

I play for the school, if that's what you mean. I'm the team's star linebacker.

I'm afraid I don't follow the school sports teams very much.

But that's certainly something to be proud of. Is it what you're hoping to do once you graduate as well?

Not really. I kind of got shoved into this against my will.

I might do college. Or I could always just join the army.

Those are very different choices.

I hope you're giving it a lot of thought.

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