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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.
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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!)
(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!)
Tom Atwood
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.