I Need to Know the Truth

Robert James

2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 11 becomes finished song number 1.

One song down, 49 to go, but at least I won’t be shut out this year.

This song is overly simple. The vocals are pretty bad and the lead playing is worse, but it’s a decent enough song and it rocks a little. I like it. It’s a good first song.

The rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Custom into a Keeley D&M Drive and both a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and a Vox MV50. Both amps are running direct. The leads are the same two amps but the guitars are my ES-335 Pro and the pedals are a Wren and Cuff Tall Font Russian into a Klon KTR into a Seymour Duncan Vapor Trails.

Chorus
I need to ask you something
I need to know the truth
What is it we’re becoming
Are we beyond dispute

Verse 1
Awake and alive
It’s how we survive
To win by default
Like an afterthought

Verse 2
To the highest peak
To find what I seek
Full time losing streak
For one wasted week

Bridge
There’s no last word
There’s no last feeling
So have you heard
So left with nothing