Cash In

Robert James

2021 5090 song number 29.

I’m having a tough time with the vocals these days. It just sounds off on this song and that’s becoming normal. Is it because I am writing melodies that are more difficult to sing, or is it because my ears are going to shit? I can’t tell.

The lyrics are about a health care issue that I thought was resolved but has blown up in our faces since I wrote the song a couple of days ago and now I feel stupid. Stupid and depressed and sad and miserable and a big gigantic heaping helping of What the Ever Loving Fuck.

Oh, and I had to use a different guitar rig because I was exposed to Covid-19 and am in self isolation within my own house. I had a guitar/recording nook setup in my bedroom but now I am living in my step son’s room until my PCR tests come back negative. Also, I am forever referring to PCR tests as PBR , Pabst Blue Ribbon tests. You heard it here first, my friends.

Anyway, the guitars are my Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s. I changed everything else, but not that beautiful new guitar that the love of my life bought me for my birthday in May. The amp is my Vox AC15. The pedals for rhythm tracks was just a Klon KTR. For leads it was a Mooer Elec-Lady into the Klon into a Keeley D&M Drive.

Chorus
The lifetime had come and gone
was all building up to this
It’s time to cash those chips in
It’s time to let them take it

you act like it’s all gone wrong
Like everything’s gone amiss
Just let this new act begin
Relax and take the assist

Verse 1
This is all new to me
can’t seem to handle things
Crazy difficulties
What might the future bring

I need to chage it up
Before I cause real pain
tragic misunderstanding
There’s only me to blame

Bridge
my problem
conclusion
solution
please help us

My question
No mystery
so simply
Please help me