Busted

Robert James

2024 RPM Challenge idea number 15 becomes finished song number 16.

This one is okay. Better than most of the garbage I’ve piled up this year. I think it will make the final album, but it’s sort of on the bubble. I’ll bury it in the middle somewhere.

There are eight bars worth of three part vocal harmony at the end. I really should do that more often. It’s fun when it comes out okay.

Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Custom. Leads are an ES-335 Pro. Amps are the direct outs of both a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and a Vox MV50 Clean. Pedals on the rhythm tracks are a Klon KTR into a Keeley D&M Drive. Leads used a Real McCoy Customs RMC10 into a Wren and Cuff Tall Font Russian into a Klon KTR into a Seymour Duncan Vapor Trails.

Chorus

And yes you will get busted

They’re closing in on you

A little mal-adjusted

This nightmare’s coming true

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Verse 1

It’s mystical

Forgettable

Too critical

regrettable

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Verse 2 & 3

I’m blown away

By what they say

It’s time to pay

for every day

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Bridge

I know this

to be true

(2x)