Say No to Tragedy

Robert James

This song features some of the worst performances I’ve ever allowed to make it online. Oh well. The vocals are terrible. The leads are handcuffed (my fingers hurt so much while recording this that I couldn’t get them to do anything). The rhythm guitars are sloppy. On top of it all, the mix is messy.

I kinda like the song though so there’s that. It will probably make it onto this year’s RPM Challenge submission, but it will probably go toward the end of the album.

The rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Standard into an MXR Phase 95 into a Klon KTR into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Fender Deluxe Reverb. The leads are my SG Standard into the Blooze Maker into the Deluxe Reverb.

Verse 1
If I told you
what the people were saying
Would you listen
Are you down for betraying

Verse 2 and 3
Simple reasons
for the way that we’re feeling
Understanding
Searching for the real meaning

Chorus
Notions and musings and
thoughts that just do not come naturally
Look at me see through me
Be with me say no to tragedy