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This marks my second collaboration with Thoddi (Thor Oliversen) who, like in our earlier version of My Heart Still Beats adds very cool and poetically additive guitar work to my original track. (The pre-guitar version 1 of Crazy Story can be found here, for comparison.) I also added several layers of sounds to certain lines, little sonic bits to aide the storytelling, and doubled the entire original with slightly differing keyboard sounds to add body.
The song is about obsession, when all you want is someone to narrate the concrete beneath your feet so you don't slide through the cracks... or float away in pieces. Obsession is a funny thing, it seems so needed yet is so destructive at the same time. Why do we open ourselves up to such destruction, feeling the whole while we can't live without it? Hopeful, it is an old story in my life, never to be repeated.
My two favorite parts: Donny McCaslin's head-spinning sax trio in the middle and Thor's understated repressed riffs at the end. I also really like the unusual synth countermelody that bridges together the vocals. Thoddi's additive guitar parts (some he won't even recognize, I sifted them thru so many filters) are a perfect backing, sliding in seamlessly into an already full track. My hat off to you, again, Thor!
Donny McCaslin also plays sax (soprano) on Icarus II.
Please turn up the track if it seems too soft. I still haven't figured out how to compress/louden stuff like some of you.
This track was remastered and appears on my 2007 release, A Bit Of Light, available through CDBaby.
The song is about obsession, when all you want is someone to narrate the concrete beneath your feet so you don't slide through the cracks... or float away in pieces. Obsession is a funny thing, it seems so needed yet is so destructive at the same time. Why do we open ourselves up to such destruction, feeling the whole while we can't live without it? Hopeful, it is an old story in my life, never to be repeated.
My two favorite parts: Donny McCaslin's head-spinning sax trio in the middle and Thor's understated repressed riffs at the end. I also really like the unusual synth countermelody that bridges together the vocals. Thoddi's additive guitar parts (some he won't even recognize, I sifted them thru so many filters) are a perfect backing, sliding in seamlessly into an already full track. My hat off to you, again, Thor!
Donny McCaslin also plays sax (soprano) on Icarus II.
Please turn up the track if it seems too soft. I still haven't figured out how to compress/louden stuff like some of you.
This track was remastered and appears on my 2007 release, A Bit Of Light, available through CDBaby.
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Lyrics
CRAZY STORY
Story.
Tell me a crazy story
to make sense of this day.
Don’t say little glories;
I don’t want to cheat that way.
Just your voice like a sidewalk beneath my feet,
narrate my concrete.
Please.
I want you to write me down.
I want you to read me aloud.
I want you to turn my pages.
Turn me, turn me
into a crazy story.
Turn me crazy. Crazy.
Want me too, on your lips.
Want me too, like breath from your mouth.
Want me too, for song, for praying.
I am yours; come play me crazy.
Tell me a crazy story.
Read me crazy. Crazy.
Prism hours like blades run across my skin,
tower like days too high for scaling.
So far away, your voice is failing.
The words of my life wait and wait and wait like crazy.
Crazy.
Come make me... crazy.
Come make me your crazy story.
Story.
Tell me a crazy story
to make sense of this day.
Don’t say little glories;
I don’t want to cheat that way.
Just your voice like a sidewalk beneath my feet,
narrate my concrete.
Please.
I want you to write me down.
I want you to read me aloud.
I want you to turn my pages.
Turn me, turn me
into a crazy story.
Turn me crazy. Crazy.
Want me too, on your lips.
Want me too, like breath from your mouth.
Want me too, for song, for praying.
I am yours; come play me crazy.
Tell me a crazy story.
Read me crazy. Crazy.
Prism hours like blades run across my skin,
tower like days too high for scaling.
So far away, your voice is failing.
The words of my life wait and wait and wait like crazy.
Crazy.
Come make me... crazy.
Come make me your crazy story.
Interesting interweaving/interlocking of parts here. I like the vocal too.
I turned it up a bit - I was hoping to hear the drums thwak a little harder
in places and a bit more amp distortion - but that's just my preference -
not a fault of what you've done. :)
Excellent work and very enjoyable.