Well.\u00a0 The music for the record is completely written and demo’d.\u00a0 The lyrics – not so much.\u00a0 I think this time I’d like to just go ahead and get the recording process started and I can work on words while that’s happening.\u00a0 I know what each song is about, and I have snippets of this and that, and most of the chorus lyrics – but it’s always the verses that are a massive hassle.\u00a0 Lyrics are a pain in the ass and huge fun at the same time.\u00a0 I mean – I know what I want to say and what the song needs to be about and what it needs to get across.\u00a0 But then you have the limitations of a song to contend with.\u00a0 You have 3-5 minutes to get it all in there.\u00a0 Then – you have the syllabic (is that a word?) limitations.\u00a0 Like, I’m working on a song called Life is a Fatal Disease right now.\u00a0 It’ll be the first song on the record.\u00a0 And – it’s supposed to sort of introduce everyone and give the main theme of the thing – which actually I guess the title does pretty well all on it’s own.<\/p>\n
“Life is a Fatal Disease” is a quote that I swear I came up with and that’s been wanting to be a song for a long long time.\u00a0 I googled it to check my originality (always a mistake) and the only thing I can find is a book of poetry published in 1997.\u00a0 Now – I can prove that I had it before then – because I had custom picks made back in the day that had the quote on it – and that was in 1995.\u00a0 So I’m taking credit for the quote.<\/p>\n
Anyway – back to the lyrics.\u00a0 So – once I’ve got some music and a subject, you’d think that the rest would be easy.\u00a0 But for the verse of this song – for it to sound right and unforced, I have to come up with lines that are 3 syllables, 3 syllables and then 7 syllables.\u00a0 So like, “Crucifix, swastika, Micky Mouse in silhouette…”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That works within the limitations.\u00a0 And it says something I want to say in this song.\u00a0 Like, how iconic symbols like this are all really just the same thing.\u00a0 Bu those few words took for fucking ever!\u00a0\u00a0 So anyway – that’s how it is.\u00a0 Giving myself more time while the recording starts is either a good idea, or a bad idea because it doesn’t give me any real deadline.\u00a0 So most likely – the music will all get recorded and it’ll be time to do vocals, and I won’t have lyrics ready and by then I’ll probably be completely bored with the whole project and will have moved on to the next one, (which I’m calling the “Sophisticated Record” – more on that later…)\u00a0\u00a0 and the entire SWS idea will be scraped and I’ll have wasted a bunch of time and money. So I’m looking forward to all that.<\/p>\n
Anyway – time to organize some studio time and get shit going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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