It’s been awhile since I posted anything music-wise. There are many reasons: I’m poor, wouldn’t I rather be outside for the summer?, none of the tracks I’m working on have vocals yet, some of the tracks I have aren’t mine, etc.
This is one track that isn’t mine, per se.
Tai and I were planning to include this track along with Doorknobs and Keyholes and Keep On for our pop album we were going to write and then rename and all that jazz.
Then Tai got engaged to his girlfriend, then he decided to get married this Halloween and have a party for all us Colorado people next summer. That’s probably the next time I’m going to see Tai.
Anyway, I’ve had this track sitting around for over a year-and-a-half. I occasionally revisit it to record more vocals (the lyrics haven’t ever changed, but the melody does…a lot). The version I’m going to post (because I love content and don’t mind people making fun of the process) has two versions of the vocals laid over each other. It’s a weird way to listen to the song, but as a guy who has been trying to find the right way to sing it for almost two years, it allows me to make second-by-second notes on one track while hearing two vocal lines simultaneously.
Who knows when, if ever, this track will be finished.
dont download me “The Only Thing I Face Alone” WORKING VERSION by The Bright Side Of Death
Important things to keep in mind, you ask?
1) When the song is finished, I will not be the one singing on it.
2) The instrumental was written and performed by Ty Hart
3) I’d still love to make this album.
4) This track is not one you want to download and listen to a lot. More of a glimpse into the process.
It’s got a weight
It’s got a height
One big corporeal afterthought
It hits you hard
It hits you fast
You feel the punch in your gut
It’s hard to erase
We can’t forget
It’s over all our heads.
These things. They are a bane.
A scarlet letter hanging ’round the necks of the tame.
The silent are guilty and the loud they aren’t much better off
We can’t just throw it away, we have to turn and face the ugliness
Please don’t say you won’t
Don’t say you can’t
I’m feeling acrimonious. I think that we’ve been over this.
Feel your stomach, tied in knots, it’s not just you who’s sinking
Just look around and ask yourself what the hell the fates were thinking?
This pain, it is universal. It’s in the frontal lobe of every man and beast.
Disdain for you peers is normal. Let’s get ready for a rampage, we’ll have ourselves a feast.
Please don’t say you won’t
Don’t say you can’t
We’re all in this together, now. We were all in this together anyhow.
If I’m not the last one left, the only thing I face alone is death.
You told me yourself, you’ve got it bad. And you feel it in the summer.
The silhouette, watch it expand. As we grow in numbers.
You know: there’s only so far up you can go.
A world united. Original sin.
To kill the tree we have to find where all the roots begin
So dig deep and peel away the skin
The rot is inside and feeds from within
Don’t tell me you won’t, tell me you can’t.
We’re all in this together, now. We were all in this together anyhow.
If I’m not the last one left, the only thing I face alone is death.
