Songs About Sex / Songs About Greed - and additional thoughts on the human condition

Just to emphasize the issue of creators and confidence, I tell on my girlfriend

I did it… I published, The Coward and The Fool. It has already appeared on a few streaming services. I use YouTube Music instead of spotify, so here is the link. Note: This is not a knock on Spotify. I pay for a few Google services and this service was wrapped into it.

If you stream my song 1,432,282 times I believe I’ll make something like, $4.16. So… GET BUSY!!!¹

We also selected the next two songs to record.

By we, I mean, Deb. Deb has selected the next two songs for me to record. She has informed me that she is my manager, creative director, mentor/coach, and, lest I forget, Lord On High/Queen of ALL She Surveys.

Immediately following this declaration, she sent me to get her coffee.

Sex & Greed: AKA Clickbait

I don’t know if greed is clickbait but sex definitely is.

Deb selected my songs, The Night is not for Sleeping & Good Love, for my next acoustic recordings.

The titles that MIGHT make you believe both songs are about sex. That is not the case.

The Night is not for Sleeping

This song is about sex/making love. But, and this is important, it is lyrically G-rated. I love nuanced wordplay and believe I do a fairly decent job with this song.

VERSE 3:
The minutes pass with our sin wrapped in our innocence
The world beyond these bedroom walls, does it even exist
One frantic moment, we seal it with a kiss
The night is not for sleepin’

Good Love

Good love is about greed and losing sight of what’s truly important.

CHORUS
Everybody want good love good love, everybody want cash
Everybody want a life that’s full. Everybody wanna make it last
Everybody need belly full, Everybody need air to breath
Ain’t it funny how the more we get, want becomes a need!

I am significantly less confident in being able to deliver Good Love in two weeks (my objective), so I have a fallback song, Make You Feel.

Good Love stretches me both in how it is played and in the verses. The verses are a rap. That is far outside my wheelhouse and comfort zone. But I’m leaning into it and I will get the song recorded.

If you are interested, I talk about both songs in the video below. I also play a brief section of each song. The video can be found below.

Oh.. I also tell on Deb in the video… about fragile confidence. And, shocker, in telling on her, I tell on myself.

That’s it for now.

Thanks again for joining me on this journey.

Sincerely,
Matthew Moran
August 9, 2023

1. I am kidding. I don’t really care if it is streamed. Unless you have a gargantuan following, t-shirts and other merchandise and playing live are your best bets to earning a few dollars. Oh… and wealthy benefactors. If you have one of those laying around, send them my way.