Read the Room

Robert James

2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 31 becomes finished song number 32.

This is okay. Nothing to complain about except for a bad vocal note near the end of the first verse and the sneaking suspicion that I’ve written this exact song before.

Rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Custom into an Earthquaker Devices The Depths into an Analog Man King of Tone into both a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and a Vox MV50 Clean, both running direct out with built in cabinet emulation. Leads are my Les Paul Standard into a Klon KTR into the King of Tone into a Seymour Duncan Vapor Trails into the same two amps.

Verse 1

These are the times that you’ve heard of

These are the times that you fear

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Chorus

Read the room and

catch the mood and

get what’s going on

scattered figures

lighting flickers

everything is wrong

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Verse 2

These are the thoughts we can’t handle

These are the thoughts that go bad