I Know you

Robert James

May 2020 is the fourth straight month I’ve done an album in a month challenge (RPM Rules) and while I still have one more song in the pipeline, this one makes 10. Four months in a row… over 40 songs… probably a grand total of three riffs and two melodies (who’s counting).

This one was supposed to take a little noddle that I do on the guitar all the time (I hit an open string and play scale patterns on the adjacent string) and it sort of worked. In the March and April projects I restricted myself to one guitar, one amp, and one pedal. This month I took those restrictions away and still generally only used a couple of pedals. I forced myself to use fuzz on the rhythm guitars here just because I could and wouldn’t you know it, buried in the mix. I had to crank them pretty hard to get them to cut through a little.

Lyrically this song is a fuck you to all the american fascists who think wearing a mask during a global pandemic is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights. The Supreme Court says it isn’t, and I think they know better than some nazi wannabee you found on youtube. Fuck you. Wear a mask.

Rhythm guitar is Les Paul to Tri Pi 70 to KTR to Bassbreaker 15. Lead is ES 335 to KTR to Bassbreaker 15.

Chorus
you act like the people you’re talking about can’t even hear you
Yes, they can hear you
you act like the people you’re going to kill can’t even hear you
Yes, they can hear you
(the last time through should be:
Yes, we can hear you)

Verse 1 and 3
I see your face
I hear your voice
its what you do
you make your choice

Its what you say
it is your view
its not your life
I know its you

I know you

Verse 2
it is the way
that you deny
an other’s life
you’d let them die

it is the way
that you ignore
the simple truth
that you are wrong

I know you