How to Write a Love Song-The Axis of Awesome

[ti:How to Write a Love Song (Explicit)] [ar:The Axis of Awesome] [al:Animal Vehicle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How to Write a Love Song - The Axis of Awesome (厉害轴心) [00:03.22]Steel string guitar [00:04.90] [00:06.31]Chimes [00:07.01] [00:09.65]Synthetic percussion [00:10.89] [00:11.96]Baby girl [00:13.31]I wanna show you how much I really love you [00:16.15]How much I really love you [00:17.93]Baby girl [00:19.26]That's what I call you to show [00:20.55]You that my love for you is true [00:23.35] [00:24.04]Baby girl [00:25.52]My love is so great that [00:27.27]I wrote you this song [00:29.96]And to show you how much I really care [00:32.16] [00:32.79]It sounds like every other one [00:35.44] [00:36.55]The beat kicks in and then [00:37.71]I sing a bit more rythmically [00:39.47]To make it sensual I sing it in a minor key [00:42.46]I move my hands like I'm pushing someone [00:44.11]In front of me [00:45.33]Now that's the first verse and now [00:46.78]I'm gonna take it to the bridge [00:49.28]I say something 'bout how I don't wanna break up [00:52.35]Then I turn around and rhyme it with make up [00:55.37]I tell you that we should be together [00:57.68]How long forever [00:59.25]That's long and ever [01:00.56]So Long [01:01.39]Girl you're always in my heart in my heart [01:04.09]And I never wanna be apart never be apart [01:07.40]Honey you'll always be mine baby be mine [01:10.28]Baby girl it's chorus time [01:13.66]This is how you write a love song [01:16.24]Yeah this is how you write a cliche love song [01:19.73]This is how you write a love song [01:21.98]Yeah a shitty 90's r n'b love song [01:24.60]This is my backup and he sings [01:25.67]Quite breathilly breathilly [01:26.54] [01:27.41]He takes the words I sing and sings [01:29.01]Them after me sings em after me [01:30.45]He emphasises words and sings [01:31.91]Emphatically I sing emphatically [01:33.24]Now listen to us singing acapella harmony [01:36.98] [01:37.87]Now we're back at the bridge [01:40.22]I haven't written anything for this [01:43.20]So I'm gonna stretch out the words [01:50.18]Repeating everything I say [01:53.01] [01:53.76]Til I get til I get [01:55.19]Til I get til I get [01:56.60]Til I get til I get [01:58.10]Yeah til I get back to the chorus [02:01.82]This is how you write a love song [02:03.97]Yeah a shitty shitty shitty shitty love song [02:07.23]And to show you I care I throw my hands in the air [02:10.10]And cut the music while I sing a long note [02:15.22] [02:18.75]Hey girl i've been standing at the [02:20.50]Back not doing much for this song [02:21.83] [02:22.66]But that's because my talents are quite limited [02:24.76]But that don't mean that I love you any less [02:26.73]In fact it means the opposite [02:28.37]I'm just showing off my voice [02:30.32]It's just that it's so hard [02:31.26]For me to find the words [02:32.49]To really express the way [02:33.49]That I feel about you girl [02:34.81] [02:35.73]Especially when I have to worry about [02:36.93]Fitting those words to music [02:38.02]And there's some kind of rhyme structure [02:39.82] [02:40.36]Involved meaningless whisper [02:41.79] [02:42.52]I know it's lazy song writing but I don't care [02:44.44] [02:45.15]Cos I sleep on a big pile of money at night [02:47.42] [02:48.66]Girl you might think it's weird girl [02:50.33]That there's three guys singing [02:51.14]About just one girl girl [02:52.78]But let me tell you something [02:53.78]Girl it's not weird at all [02:55.37]In fact girl it's an industry standard [02:57.26]And it happens all the time [02:58.82]Happens all the time [03:00.63]Well girl I better wrap this up about now cos [03:03.15]I'm about to get cut off by [03:04.50] [03:07.86]Baby I wrote you a love song [03:10.26]It wasn't hard and it really didn't take long [03:13.44]A totally generic love song [03:16.11]Yeah really this could be about anyone [03:19.14]But it's for you [03:20.07]Yeah this is your love song [03:21.81] [03:22.60]Non specific girl [03:25.28]To let you know we take it seriously [03:28.40]Then watch as we change the key [03:31.45]When you change the key in a love song [03:34.49]It means you're singing passionately [03:37.25]But we still haven't reached the end [03:40.06]Now were gonna go and change the key again [03:43.81]Look at me I'm singing a love song [03:46.24]Yeah anyone can sing a shitty love song [03:49.57]Our love is so unique [03:51.48] [03:52.33]That I copied every other shitty love song [03:56.02]Yeah girl