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Suicide 2
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one of the very first batch of songs I recorded direct-to-PC using cooledit pro and my Alesis SR-16
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Over the years - I mean, decades - I've played pretty much every style of music that could come under the umbrella of rock, but that's really quite limiting as
I am an army of one. The problem with being in bands, is bandmates. They conflict with my despair for humanity.
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Rock • Rock General
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Peak #953
Peak in subgenre #199
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Robb Millett
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Robb Millett
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May 02, 2008
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MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:07
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I used to have alot of emotive pain going on during the period of my protracted divorce - the "Angsty Goldmine" - during which my ex was doing a really sweet job of embracing alcoholism...sometimes you just want it to be over and the pain to end. This isn't the first song I'd written cathartically exploring those feelings. the stop-time guitar solo, mimicking the drum pattern, is ALL IMPROV - after about 6 or 7 tries ;-) this is one of my favorite bits iof improv work I've ever done...
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Oftentimes the hand that's dealt out Might well be the hand you'd rather Chop right off And though it may leave you lacking suffice to say you'd be glad of it gone Just to know this pain You wait I stare into the mirror And I call that truth How my doppelganger scoffs I've waited I've dragged it out I've played right out So whe walks right next to me this three-day-old aquaintance wakes the old sad beast and so sometimes I would rather I wasn't quite so blindly self-aware Since you know this pain You wait I stare into the mirror and my god damned doppelganger laughs and doesn't care I've waited I've dragged it out I've played right out Oftentimes the hand that's dealt out Might well be the hand you'd rather Chop right off Funny though to realize that with it gone I could not wield the axe To bring the end of pain Make 'em wait I stare into the mirror and see the truth and on that stare I turn my back I've waited I've dragged it out I've played right out (var. ad libs)
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