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I've also added one more #demo recording here. This #song, called Sagittarius Star A, is both a deeply personal conversation with a dead man and a reversal/re-imagining of Patti Smith's Birdland. The lyrics works as a Bush era protest song a la Herbert's album Scales (pretzels, anyone?).
Not to compare myself to either Herbert or Patti Smith. Inspirations are aspirational. This recording is just me and my #guitar being confessional as a college kid, a long time ago.
Acoustic guitar and an amateur singer. Simple, sparse picking patterns in the verse and prechorus leaving the song feeling weightless and floating, while the strumming in the last half of the chorus and bridge bring a stronger sense of momentum. Mood is reflective and tired, or perhaps bitter.
They say that I should be ashamed of you,
choking on pretzels in the TV room.
I always knew you were a drunk,
but nowhere near this much.
[Chorus]
Quietly, we walked.
We went everywhere but up.
The black cars trail away
from Sagittarius Star A.
[Verse 2]
I felt the graveyard shift beneath my feet,
threw dirt on you and then left for peace.
And with the birds in the cypress,
I pleaded for just one thing.
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
And if life gives me just one wish,
if I only get one chance to say please,
oh I wish
I wish that you would stay buried,
buried.
The house is quiet now.
No one around to watch Jeopardy.
My mind is quiet now.
And I've started fixing things.
[Chorus]
This song, Slaughter, is about the 2008 financial crisis.
Silent Springsummerfallwinter was the last song I wrote for a long, long... wait have I written any since? Maybe not. Maybe this is the last song I finished.
Do you remember the oil spills we've enjoyed over the years?
Sydne Rome is an ode to Sydne Rome ... but I tell you that in the song. Are you a Rome-antic too?
We wouldn't want another Rome, that's for sure.
This song is called She's Trapped and if I explain what it's about then we'll both need yet another therapy session.
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