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Written during Spring Break 2001. Can you guess which day it comes from? The lyric is about how I was on day 4 and had already run out of ideas. Kinda typical.
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"Four Walls" is the oldest song of the bunch. It was written early in 1992. I had been working with a drummer friend of mine for a while during the Fall 1991 semester. We'd get together once every few weeks and write and record to 4-track one…
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This was supposed to be a 3+ minute fade out to end the album, but I was too lazy to do it so I just let it play. The rhythm guitar is my original scratch track, note the screw up in the last verse. in the quiet of pre dawn I sit secluded all…
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I had more or less run out of ideas so I tried noodling in drop D tuning and this is the result. I almost like this. Not quite though. The lyrics are nonsense. over flow and over blown no resistance shown over rated over head come to me…
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Beginning to run low on ideas. I went back to my standard add-a-minor-seventh-to-every-chord gimmick. As for the lyrics, I wrote them on NHL trade deadline day and couldn't believe my Bruins traded for Mark Recchi. One month later it's looking…
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My attempt at a 12-bar non-blues. Did it work? eh. The lyrics represent the first time in my life when I can write a love song and not feel like a liar. somethings you can't control like the rising of the sun some things you can't control…
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Volume pedal plus digital delay equals drone. come to me I love you be with me for always
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FAWM suggested we write something with time signature changes. I wanted to try it without messing with the 8 beat format I use to program my drum machine. This piece of crap was the result. I didn't realize until weeks later that I lifted a…
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The riff was inspired by an electronic device that has two speeds. I kept switching back and forth and listening to the hum popped this into my head. The lyric was supposed to be George W Bush bashing (the twit) but I don't really know what…
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Just a dumb rocker. I like those now and then. The lyrics were pulled from two discarded ideas. One is about being nuts about my fiancé, the other... I have no idea. Donald Fagen maybe? No clue. Keep the runway open Keep the pathway clear…
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