Overreaction (2020 Version)

So, what do you think… could it use more wah-wah?

This was written for the 2014 RPM Challenge. The chromatic thing at the beginning had been rattling around in my head for years and years but had never found a home.

The lyrics here are memorable in that they came from reading the @_FloridaMan Twitter account. Each verse was inspired by a different tweet. I thought it was cool to have something resembling a story, and also it was one of the first times I used the internet to sort of force creativity. Unfortunately, @_FloridaMan hasn’t posted in quite a long time. Oh well.

All of the guitar parts are a Gibson ES-335 Pro into a Dunlop Crybaby Wah, a Klon KTR, a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter into a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15.

Is it overreaction
when everyone acts that way
does it lead to distraction
when everyone is the same

a simple night at home
relaxing with family
game night and puzzle time
what’s that you just said to me
at night as the anger grows
I’ll pay you back you’ll see
bringing the hammer down
I won’t even hear your pleas

they had this friend they knew
who owned lots of games they played
he liked his collectables
he seemed easy to betray
they wanted to sell his stuff
they had lots of debts to pay
they buried him in concrete
and sold all his stuff away

Its hard to imagine how
these things happen every day
the people you’re closest too
will just throw your life away
there’s no sense of right and wrong
there’s nothing that they can say
there’s evil everywhere
its always been that way