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This and the following two songs are up as a demo for Jim Spires. This song is actually from an unnamed(as yet) project between myself (Josh) and Ben Keddy. Probably my most broadly appealing song to date...(click song story for more info)
triphop trance rde skid d
One guy trying to free the sound trapped in his skull. Trip-Hop, DnB, Trance, and whatever else.
My music is like me. Somewhat out there, kind of dark and moody, and a little different. While I do have tendencies and preferences, generally my music is a result of messing around, trying to put the sounds in my head on my speakers, and discovering something else entirely. Not all tracks are finished, because I'm likely to change something even after I think it's done. So bear with me, and enjoy.
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Genre
Alternative • Alternative General
Charts
#21,171 today Peak #198
#6,592 in subgenre Peak #66
Author
Josh Byra - lyrics/music Ben Keddy - music
Rights
(c) 2004, Josh Byra and Ben Keddy
Uploaded
July 14, 2004
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MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
This song is a strange conglomeration of country guitar, hip-hop beats, and synthesized bass. My friend Ben Keddy was playing this beautiful and haunting guitar riff late one night, and it really spoke to me somehow. I started coming up with lyrics as soon as i heard it, and then, over time, everything else started coming together. When we finally sat down and recorded the guitar and vocals (almost a year later, i think), i was shocked how well it all fit. The falsetto vocals you hear at the beginning and end are Ben Keddy improvising after a long night of failed attempts at recording (followed by one excellent take) the guitar in the basement of the Colonial Theatre in Keene, NH. The vocals with words are me (Josh) doing the second and third takes (i hope no more than the 3 people who heard it ever hear the first) in my room on a headset. The bassline and drums are done with Buzz and the guitar and vocals are recorded and processed in Cool Edit Pro 2, and it came out surprisingly well. I am very proud of this song, although it is unfinished (we still have yet to record the chorus, and the vocals are only the 2nd and 3rd takes, layered), and it seems to have the most broad appeal of any i've written. Enjoy it, but don't hand it out too much (it's only half a song, after all).
Lyrics
and every day it's more of the same neverending torturous game wandering around with no aim wondering just who i became and the colors of the morning have faded out and the senses are all worn and abraded now and i'm tired of feeling torn and frustrated now i pray to find a way to escape and every day i feel so alone so far away from people i've grown i lay awake and gaze at the phone the space betrays what i've always known that it doesn't seem like i'm gonna make it out that if life's a dream, then i wanna wake up now cuz this silence screams all day, and it's way too loud i don't know how much more i can take and every day i feel so ashamed with all my bridges engulfed in flames out of focus and out of frame some days i can't remember my name and all my fears have gone and abated now and all my tears have evaporated now so many years i've wasted and waited out it's time for me to embrace my fate
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