Friday, October 27, 2017

You're Not the Only One

You're Not the Only One

Lyrics

You like your beer
You love to fish
Your boat is okay
You like your dogs
They mostly do whatever you say
You love your teams
You paint your face when they play
You love your car
You hate the traffic
You like your phone
You love to play the video games
You like TV with all the girls, the fortunes and fame
You love the news, cause Rush and you think the same
You praise your God, you love your country
But who do you love enough to give to
Who means as much to you as you do
You are not the only hungry traveller
You're not the only one
You love to fight, you love to preach the things you believe
You love your guns, you love to brag about being free
You hate your boss, but you work meticulously
You like your house, you hate the city
But who do you love enough to give to
Who means as much to you as you do
You are not the only hungry traveller
You're not the only one
You just don't want to be alone
But you know you always have been
'Cause who do you love enough to give to
Who means as much to you as you do
You are not the only hungry traveller
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Theresa's Comments

(In response to not knowing the self-given nickname of radio host Limbaugh in a crossword puzzle)

As if I would know what that fathead calls himself. But I should have known EBRO, sheesh. I have never listened to Rush Limbaugh but I think I'd recognize his voice. Kevin refers to him in this song which was prescient of the Trump era. Kevin would have been infuriated by what's going on, as many of us are.

This song was supposed end slightly differently - I think Kevin didn't plan on repeating the guitar part after the 2nd to last "You're not the only one" but it got recorded that way and he decided not to re-record it. Now it's impossible to remember how it was originally supposed to sound. I love the harmony parts on this song and I'm kind of proud of the violin-sounding keyboard part.

So Far Away

So Far Away

Lyrics

Theresa's comments

I don't think we ever put "gated reverb" on our drum sounds. Jamie was pretty much just playing straight ahead trap set sounds, though sometimes he played the (cardboard) box. On my song "So Far Away", he played two sounds - one swishy sound which was produced by brushes on the snare drums and a lower sound which was kind of interesting. He thought a "heartbeat" sound would be good but using the bass drum with the kicker was too hard of a sound. So he sat in front of the bass drum with a rubber mallet and played the heartbeat beat throughout the song. I liked the way it turned out.