This is a fun, playful and optimistic song with a more modern take on the painting by Johannes Vermeer called Girl With A Pearl Earring.
About The Painting: The Girl With The Pearl Earring
This is one of the most popular paintings of all time. The painting is mysterious because there are more questions about the girl than there are answers.
For example, does she look happy or a little sad? Is she turning towards the viewer or away? What is the moment at which we are seeing her?
Some of these questions are answered in the Girl With A Pearl Earring song. And they are answered uniquely because the song is a male and female duet with all the dynamics of a relationship: hope, excitement, disappointment, and disillusionment, and more.
Evolution Of This Song
This song was originally intended to only have a male vocalist, but there wasn’t enough variety in the sound. So a female vocalist was added relatively late in the process of writing and recording this song. In hindsight, that was always the right idea, but it didn’t feel immediately obvious. As a result of making it a duet, the song is more dynamic and more fun.
It’s really surprising when the listener hears the female vocals come in about a minute into the song.
Here is a page with other songs about art. The song is a piece of art that is a homage to one of the best artists of all time.
Why This Topic For A Song?
Many love songs today fell too similar. They are written in first person to a supposed loved one, and the speaking tone is quite literal and unimaginative.
This song rebels against all that. It is imaginative and creative from the first lines during which we find out that it’s dedicated to this amazing woman – The Mona Lisa of the North as she is sometimes called. After that, this song seems removed from reality. It lives in the world of imagination and allowing oneself to dream a little – even if it doesn’t all end perfectly.
The Duet
In the middle of the song, there is a sudden chance and the girl in the painting is given a voice. It’s unexpected, fun, and unique. As the writer of this song, I wanted to add a female duet part to counter my low voice and add more musically-interesting aspects to this song.
Poetic Song With Imagery
When I write music, I try to make it dreamy and pretty. Having great metaphors and similes in my songs helps me make them more expressive. That was a big part of my writing this song. The Girl With A Pearl Earring deserves it.
Girl With A Pearl Earring Song Lyrics
VERSE 1:
I passed a painting as if dreaming.
It was the girl with the pearl earring.
As though she turned to look at me alone
Her eyes yearning answers unknown.
CHORUS:
Hey girl with the Pearl Earring
Love at first sight – crowds disappearing.
Like kissing in a park,
No one can distract us from our spark.
VERSE 2
You’re silent but your eyes were speaking.
I never learned what you were revealing.
And all these years something haunted me.
Why did I look at you so longingly?
CHORUS REPEATS:
Hey girl with the Pearl Earring
Love at first sight – crowds disappearing.
Like kissing in a park,
No one can distract us from our spark.
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
VERSE 3:
She’s asking an eternal question.
Will she have her Cinderella transformation?
While my true-love at first sight’s gone.
Each passers-by thinks they’re the one.
CHORUS REPEATS
Hey girl with the Pearl Earring
Love at first sight – crowds disappearing.
Like kissing in a park,
No one can distract us from our spark.
BRIDGE:
Oh Vermeer – painted an angel
To appear, But angels are a…
Veneer I thought I had a chance
Unreciprocated romance.
SOLO:
VERSE 4:
Can’t be in love and sane at the same time.
I lost myself believing she could be mine.
Realizing – we could never be,
I let her fade into a memory.