Home Community Music Blog Old MJ More...      
The Mermaid's Song (Remixed) by ScooterDMan [Email]

Get Flash to see this player.


Having playback trouble, try the Quicktime player:

Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial
SONG STATS:
Hits: 1050
Comments: 3
Votes: 7
Plays: 189
Last Played: May 20, 2008 - 10:07:06 AM
Downloads: 31
Fans: 0
Uploaded: Jan 14, 2005 - 05:57:00 AM
Last Updated: Jan 14, 2005 - 01:35:16 AM
Fan List
Description:
OK, the guitar's tuned up here, I think. I tried my best to clean up the sound as well. Also played around a bit with some keyboard in the end. Hope you enjoy it.

Lyrics:
at the bottom of some poetry/a newfound thought occurred to me/would the mermaids kindly sing/if i was dying?//and would i dare to eat a peach/and sexualize the meaning/of fruits and words and phrases/worth admiring?//i was fed in 1982/through a mangled blue umbilical/like a teller window's vaccuum tube/i was wired/i emerged just like a ringing bell/from that fiery amniotic hell/and i sucked the air down so damn well/i became tired///chorus: i went to sleep/i had a dream///i awoke and i was 23/and with perspective newly behind me/i tried to talking some sense into/my neighbors/but they cursed my logic up and down/and retreated to the church in town/in my mind i saw a monkey/grading papers///chorus: or was that me?/in 8 million BC///it's hard to swim the waterways/with ankle-weights made of cliches/but behind every single dark cloud's face is/a silver lining/that on a ring's as good as gold/or so the ancient story goes/where midas turns what he touches /into diamonds///chorus:i earned a C/in mythology///Forgive me now Im on the beach/an electric golf cart's chasing me/it must've mistaken all this scenery/for a sand trap/It runs me down im almost dead/and as the last drip of adrenaline/kicks in a mermaid surfaces /and she begins to sing a mortal hymn, it goes///you deserve to die like all good men do (3x)
(you deserve to die like any good man does when his time has expired
and get swallowed by the tide get swallowed by the tide get swallowed by the tide, woo!)


Hardware:
powerbook g4, ibanez acoustic electric, cheap harmonica

Software:
garageband
You must be registered and logged-in to comment.

Much better &mdash 01/14/05 - 07:57:27 AM
Technically, this is a much better version. The guitar is in
tune (thank you!) and the mix between guitar and
harmonica is good. My thought is the vocal, during the
quiet passages, could come up some. I lose some of the
words, and there are many to digest.

This has a strange, epic quality to it. Mermaids-birth-life-
death-mermaids. You have taken a very interesting--and
sometimes cryptic--path to answer a question that I think
most of us have never pondered.

I like the ankle weights made of cliches. This was fun to
listen to.

[ Reply to This ]
Much better &mdash 01/14/05 - 11:58:52 AM
thanks for listening. i appreciate the kind comments. the imagery was fun to
create, but it would have never been conceivable if it wasn't for "The Love
Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock," a poem by TS Eliot, which has kind of haunted me
for years. You can read it here: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/
world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/eliot.html

[ Reply to This ]
A monkey graded my paper &mdash 01/15/05 - 11:13:48 AM
Excellent playing and great, raw, expressive vocal performance. Quite an unusual tune lyrically. The song construction is fairly middle-of-the-roadish, which I think works to create a sense of wimsy.

I would suggest you try using some compression on the individual tracks. There are points where instruments spike in volume unexpectedly or fight for attention. Compression will help to even that out.

Fun song... great lyrics!

[ Reply to This ]
Copyright 2008 Simig Media, Inc.