2010-03-21

the closest thing to healing

welcome to a brand new track. so far i am sticking well to my plan of releasing one new song a month with the had we met in another life series.

i'll be honest though, this is track three, and i really don't have much beyond track four. i have a fifth track that's very rough, and i'm not sure ultimately whether it fits in. but i'm considering overhauling it... it could work. basically, i suppose this is going to be a short series. but i'm back in the mood to record a long piece, so ideas are starting to brew...

this new song, the third in this series, is called the closest thing to healing. it's a pretty raucous joint that i recorded over the past fourteen months. the idea was to produce a track that was upbeat and yet still slow-to-mid-tempo and moody. so i opted for a funkish, almost staccato bassline, and i did it live rather than using the midi. i wanted a loud, overdriven guitar line, which i achieved with the v-amp, tweaking the effects levels really high. just recently, i added the midi organ line and some vocal effects, and that gave the track the final touches it needed.

thematically, the lyrics follow in the same vein as the previous tracks...

the real treat here is that i shot a video for this track: a real time one take of me doing a pen & ink drawing to accompany the track, and then speeding it up double-time to match the rhythm and tempo of the song. it's a really simple video, but it gives me some great ideas for stop-motion stuff i could try.

this is the first video i've done for one of my solo tracks (excluding the Your First Lover material) since 2006ish. but i'm getting back into it (with better hardware and software now), so there will be more to come soon... expect a video for the next track too.

without further ado, the closest thing to healing music video:



download free high quality VBR mp3: the closest thing to healing

lyrics:
before what we call the modern age
when the new world was still young and unscathed
and our ancestors still lived in caves
before we ravaged and made each other slaves

it was the closest we came to healing
before we even opened the wound
once upon a time we had feelings
since we carved up this place, we’re all equally doomed

and you ask me if i even care
truthfully, i don’t even dare
it just hurts too much
it just hurts too much
it just hurts too much...

these plains were fertile once
before we faced off here with guns
i used to lie in the fields just to feel the breeze
now i lie with your body, hoping to freeze
now i lie with your body, hoping to freeze

and you ask me if i even care
truthfully, i don’t even dare
it just hurts too much
it just hurts too much
it just hurts too much
i don’t even dare
it just hurts too much...

and i still scream out to no one “you were wrong!”
still playing the blame game long after the swan song

but nothing will bring you back
nothing comes close to forgiving me for this attack
the closest we can get
is to carve our own headstones so we never forget

we were the harbingers of our own demise
we willingly believed our own lies
and you ask me why i don’t care
ask me the right question, i dare you

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