The Worst

Robert James

Song number 1 from the 2024 National Solo Album Month. Seven songs in 7/8 time.

Rhythm guitars are my Gibson ES-335 Pro into a Klon KTR into a Fender Deluxe Reverb. Lead guitars are the same guitar and amp with a pedal chain of a Real McCoy Customs RMC10 into the KTR into an Analog Man King of Tone. The quiet noodling that’s sort of buried at the beginning and end of the song is the same guitar and amp with the pedal chain of an Earthquaker Devices The Depths into the KTR into a Seymour Duncan Vapor Trails.

Chorus
I’ve learned a thing or two
about people around me
The worst is somehow true
The truth is not hard to see

verse 1 & 3
The worst of us
have destroyed it all
the broken trust
should have known we’d come to this

verse 2
Just you and me
We are all that’s left
No longer free
need to find a way to fight