160 tracks by Permanent Tourist
My first attempt at this song. (Obviously I was still learning how to mix music.)
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Ever feel like you're running in place?
LYRICS:
It's time for reformation
Moment's here to strike
I'm whipping winds of change up
on my stationary bike
I will sing this song
I will sing this song aloud
if I'm allowed
With my inner…
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Another version of this song. I think I like this one more.
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I used to have a problem.
Updated audio 12-18-11
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For the record, the verses are in 7/8 time.
LYRICS:
This is the last time that I try this
This is the final first attempt
and if I fail in my endeavor
Nobody can claim that I am heaven sent
Still not as bad as the civil war inside…
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This is the second version I've done of this. Finally tidied up the audio on this one and suddenly it's more like a song.
* updated 9-16-12
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Kind of Foo Fightery. One of the first songs I wrote.
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I spent a lot of time alone driving around the Dakotas in the winter. I remember standing, looking out at a perfectly level horizon: all white below, all blue above.
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Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
LYRICS:
Notice the world getting worse not better
White men in sheets decide the weather
and whether or not to eat the weak
Inherit the mighty from the meekest
Federal agents tracking the phone…
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I had a bad break up.
LYRICS:
In the dust of our mistrust
I could swear it's gone
I can cry myself to sleep
if I want
In the wake of this heartbreak
I could think you'd care
You only want what you want
That's not fair
No more…
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I was going to do vocals for this one, but I haven't come up with a good melody yet.
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When I was a kid, I was walking home from school with my foster brothers. Some guy in a black Camaro pulled up on the side of the road and said . . .
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I used to be a door-to-door salesman traveling the midwest.
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I could have redone this song, but I kind of liked the grungy feel of this recording.
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5/4 time, prophecy and jazz a la Disenfortunado.
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