Sometimes it's just time for a change and when I looked at the blog the other day, I decided it was time for a revamp! We have been writing a lot recently, Aaron has studio time booked to record some new music, and it just felt like a good time to freshen things up a bit around here.
While I loved my photo of my fender on the beach, I was feeling a different vibe. I also decided to finally edit my URL, so it will match my social media handle! Handle? Tag? Nickname? I don't know, but they match now! We love matchy-matchy things, don't we?!
Be on the lookout for some new tunes that are on the way! I'm two lines away from finishing a sassy one that I can't wait to share with y'all! Thanks for the love over the years and I hope y'all enjoy this next phase of Just Keep Writing; The Journey of an Aspiring Songwriter!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to write around the line “Last Night’s Lipstick”. You may have noticed from my videos that I love a good lip color that pops…and one that can last all night. That’s the trick there. I’m not a dainty, delicate flower, don’t want to mess up my makeup kind of gal. I go out, eat, drink and have a good time. Sometimes my lipstick makes it through the night and I feel like a bit of a rockstar the next day.
Well I’ve used the phrase “last night’s lipstick” a few times before this, but I never loved where it landed. It felt forced. So I jotted it down on my hook page in my notebook and thought “maybe someday I’ll revisit it”. That was during the songwriting challenge so I was grasping by mid month, but I never wrote on it during the challenge.
Then, one random night, it hit me to write it from a male perspective and something clicked. I was on the patio, drinking bourbon, listening to my favorite artist (I’ve said it was when the new album came out…but it may have been the day after a concert? I can’t remember. Like I said, bourbon was involved and this was months ago. I’ve slept since then. Don’t judge.) I do vaguely remember hollering to my hubby “I got it! I’m going to write a Gary song!” Oh, my poor hubby and the antics he had to deal with that night.
The chorus came together just like that, and I wrote some verses…drunk me liked them but sober me was like “ehhhhh, I don’t know”. But I really liked the chorus so I told myself that someday I’d finish it. Well I’ve been on a writing kick lately so I revisited it a few weeks ago and the verses started to flow. Then I picked up a guitar and the music came together. Yes, I know it’s three chords but by golly it’s fun to play…I mean “I used a simple chord structure to give potential artists the freedom to adapt it to their unique style”. Yeah. I did it on purpose. We’ll go with that.
Last Night’s Lipstick
Chelsey Layton
Male Country Rock - Use Your Imagination. I need to buy tires before I can save up for a demo 🤣
V1:
Head already poundin’, ain’t no early to rise
Kinda Sunday morning til I open my eyes
Lookie to my left, bam I’m wide awake
You let out a little giggle as I double take
CH:
Rockin’ last nights lipstick, hair all a mess
Hint of cigar smoke, bourbon on your breath
Got me weak in the knees, nothing I wouldn’t give
For another double shot of last night’s lipstick
Rockin’ last night’s lipstick, my rush tshirt
Smokey blue eyes, tattoo, the works
I’m a fool, I’m a junky, needing one more hit
Come on now babe, give me a taste of last night’s lipstick
