If You Rode The Bus- Song

New Lyrics

Riding the lonely bus, every single day
Steppin' on, lookin round with nothing much to say
I'm looking down the isle, and there's not a seat for me
Sit on the stairs so at least I can try, to watch, and see

If you rode the bus you'd see how it is (x4)

We sit or stand there in ungrateful despair
If the A.C is working, I freeze in the cold air
There I stand, looking around, staring outside,
Public transportation; I sit here forced to abide

Crazy people sit around me on all sides
They entertain on the rides
Talking to themselves or counting away,
"You WIN Mr. Bus Driver!" one did say.

if you rode the bus you'd see how it is (x4)

You can't possibly know what I go through
Every weekday home from schoo'l
Until you smell the man next to me
Then most likely you'd take pity on me





Reflection:
Throughout the process of writing, recording, and presenting my song, I learned a lot. First of all, I had no idea at all how to work Garage Band or iMovie. That was an adventure on its own. It was very annoying, because my computer is old and breaking, so it took twice the effort to click on anything while using my laptop. Recording it was a difficult process as well. My friend Lexi and I spent hours, on the bus itself, outside of the Kailua library, (we were locked out,) and at our houses trying to get the singing right. Obviously, it didn't come out as wonderfully sang as we would have liked, but it was a pretty good product for a freshman English project...

I had to rewrite the music on garage band many times; each time something went wrong. I first had a whole melody before realizing my lyrics couldn't fit with what I had. It was due on a friday, and I couldn't work on wednesday, and on tuesday night I realized that I was at a point without any prospect of a melody, and my lyrics were tampered with and confused. I was in so much trouble! But with a little focus, and a little bit of help from my sister and more help from Lexi, my song steadily improved. Jing worked pretty well for me. Pretty soon my song and video were complete! Horrah!