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Well it's been a while since I've submitted anything so I thought I'd post up this one having just come back from an internet-less vacation. Here's another remix of an old GB song. I wrote this back in 2004 after George W. Bush got re-elected, uploaded it here for a while, I think, and then deleted it since it was a bit rough and to my mind topical in a half-baked way. The "We Got Screwed" thread got me thinking about it again and so I opened it up in Logic and remixed it with new drums and some new effects on the lead vocal. Everything else is the same as the original GB recording. The piano and bass are the internal sounds from my Kurzweil keyboard because when I started out recording software instruments would easily overload my old eMac. The guitar is recorded with an MXL small diaphragm mic, I think.
I think the lyrics could be used by either conservatives or liberals and hopefully no one will take offense.
I think the lyrics could be used by either conservatives or liberals and hopefully no one will take offense.
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Lyrics
At the end of the day
And so we’re screwed, once again
Left feeling used and abused, betrayed by our friends
So what we’re left with
Are just disappointments
At the end of the day, it’s
Time to bear down and
Look it square in the eye
Wake up in the morning, and make the coffee
I’d not expected, How I would feel
Hard to deny I’m unhappy
With the way things turned out
At the end of the day, it’s
Time to wake up and
Sort it all out
It’s not time yet to pack it in
It’s not time yet to say goodbye
On the horizon is another mountain
It’s not too early to prepare for the climb
So there’s them that claim victory, I wouldn’t put it quite that way
When deception was the strategy, I wonder how they sleep at the end of the day
So what we’re left with
Are just disappointments
At the end of the day, it’s
Time to bear down and
Look it square in the eye
And so we’re screwed, once again
Left feeling used and abused, betrayed by our friends
So what we’re left with
Are just disappointments
At the end of the day, it’s
Time to bear down and
Look it square in the eye
Wake up in the morning, and make the coffee
I’d not expected, How I would feel
Hard to deny I’m unhappy
With the way things turned out
At the end of the day, it’s
Time to wake up and
Sort it all out
It’s not time yet to pack it in
It’s not time yet to say goodbye
On the horizon is another mountain
It’s not too early to prepare for the climb
So there’s them that claim victory, I wouldn’t put it quite that way
When deception was the strategy, I wonder how they sleep at the end of the day
So what we’re left with
Are just disappointments
At the end of the day, it’s
Time to bear down and
Look it square in the eye
Bob6stringer
I have failed utterly at rhyme, it all feels so trite, and so I appreciate your approach to non-rhyme but fine meter nonetheless. While I'm not into "ge, this sounds like," the presence you give your vox here seems to share some sensibility with ol' Leonard Cohen. I don't have an issue with the Kurweil piano at all, nor the bass, which you tuck in well and let it do its job of holding up your guitar and vocal. Oh, the brushes are just right, btw. Jim, your dusted-off B sides beat most A sides.