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interestingly enough, this is part of a series of songs.song #1:
What Would I Do
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i don't know what i would do
if i didn't have you
can't you see you're all i ever wanted you to be
from your curls to your feet
you know my love is free
i will take care of you
when i don't have money to
For babies at least. Don't play this for them though. Drum solo, sort of.
Thinking Is Doing
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Otherwise, gaybies.
Always look back to move forward. Don't judge me for writing about Halo though.
Oh Five
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da da da da da da da
I never could wait to
get to their place to play halo
mostly i would lose
blame the fact i was a newb as the scapegoat
but as time progressed
i grew better than the best and that'd be thomas
so as it stood in '05
i spent the summer takin lives from the ones i loved the most
we were fifteen
our lives were carefree
the only time we'd take a break was to grab a kool-aid and a shake and hit the pool
dive in or do a flip we'd check out all the older chicks boy we thought we were cool
after the hours spent there we'd burn our feet because they were bare on the walk back home
we'd maybe play tag or race back to your pad where the xbox was waitin alone
we were fifteen
our lives were carefree
as summer drew to a close
i knew our friendship wouldn't go but it did
i went off to highschool
where the junior gals thought i was cool lucky kid
so as i reminisce
that house will be missed just like you
you sold it the next yeari'll go back to it i swear but until i do
i'll still play from time to time
whatever works i don't
mind your own business
don't hate me for my interests
This song sparked my venture back into recording. It was november of last year. (I had recorded a handful of songs a year earlier but most have been lost completely, if not marginally). I've since went back and added a few elements (namely drums) so I suppose that earns itself the title "(mix 2)".
It's still obviously ill formed. Let's stay on task though.
Simply Put
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There are songs happening. There just aren't songs finishing. This is the first of a slew, promise. Also a fellow by the name of Noel sent me over one of his great songs that I'm supposed to be adding lyrics to, unfortunately I've just recently got out of my lyrical slump (i.e. today). Expect more regarding that soon. A link to his stuff as well.
This is a song I plan (emphasis on plan) to include in a concept EP, all songs having a similar subject matter, or at least basis. There are five or six that are waiting to be finished. This is the first.
One Night, Some Time Ago
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one night i woke up
frantic and holed up on a leather couch
i panicked and slouched deeper in the cushions
i felt myself hooked in
my brain kept slipping while they were sleeping
here they are
this is it
they've finally come
to take me with
the electronics malfunctioned
clock blinked twelve
i was still tucked in
as i slowly fell
their snores
i'm bored
wake up
get off the floor
when they poked
i laughed and laughed
when they spoke
it made me sad
before they stopped talking
one more thing
is this the life you wanted?
the answer i had to think
when august comes around you won't think twice
growing up did you ever have a concept of time?
Too much Silver Apples. Suggestive of what?
Overnight
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you look tired
why don't you spend the night?
too much wine
my bed'll be just fine
Sorry mates, dry spell. I've got plenty in the works though. Hold your proverbial horses.
All respect goes to the originators of this ditty, and no respect goes to my pale voice in comparison. Something's weird with it today, maybe because I've not eaten or anything, regardless:
The Girl From Back Then
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A lot of people cover this on YouTube, I suppose because it's pretty easy, short and sweet. But nothing beats the original. I just used it as an outlet for a jazzy tune.
"DigiDelay
I use this thing, a delay pedal called the DigiTech DigiDelay. I use it for everything. If I had to have one [instrument] to make music with, it would be that. I've used it on every vocal I've ever done. It's also the source of a lot of sounds on our record that people didn't realize-- the entire first track ["Intro"] is done on one. That's just my voice; there's no keyboards on the majority of that track. There's one keyboard part at the end, but that's it. All the loops are my voice. And a lot of the sounds on "Octet" are my voice looped through this thing. It has a really cool additive way of making loops. Everybody in Deerhunter has one. Every single person in the band, after seeing me use it, was like, "I have to have one of those." It's the one thing we all have in common.
...
I went to this thrift store in Marietta, and I got this bad-ass Tiffany lamp with a dragonfly design in the stained glass. I really like old stained glass lamps, I have no idea why. But I got that and this fucking insane vintage pearloid yellow drum kit. And my grand total that day was $17. It was totally unexpected too. I saw the drum kit in the window, and I totally expected it to be-- you know how thrift stores will get a shitty Casio keyboard these days and charge $35?-- so I'm expecting them to tell me the drums are $500 or something: "We know what these go for on eBay! We have a computer you know!" So I go back there and ask how much it is, and she was like, "Oh, I don't know, $25." And then I went back in and found that lamp, and I almost shit myself. And then I went to check out, and it turns out it was half-off day. So I got a drum set for 12 bucks! "
- Bradford Cox of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound
(full interview)
Just saying.
I haven't played drums like that in a while.
Sorry for the wait, I've just been half-heartedly busy with this and that. Truthfully I haven't been able to record anything for a couple of weeks due to a dive in self confidence (musically). That and I'm out of hard drive space. Not that either of those two things should stop me from writing anything. and I've dabbled. But only today has something remotely come to fruition. It shall be expanded upon and put to tape (digital) as soon as the next opportunity arrives.
But honestly, I feel as though I've been listening to Street Hassle too much since I came to the idea by playing over a loop of myself fingering the general bassline and noodling licks here and there. The chords are different though, and we all know how many songs have Charlie Brown's bassline, hmm?
At least in the drought I've had experiences that lend themselves to being written about. How I could do so without being so overtly obvious to those who were involved, I do not know. So maybe it's time for me to avoid the vague and plainly write, at the risk of alienating those whom I've written about? Or welcoming them in?
Case in point:
For You
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