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carbon

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thank you Steve for walking this road with me.

credits:
Steve (tokai): guitars, percussion, mastering
Steve (carbon): bass, vocals

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Lyrics

i want more of everything
i want the world on a string
i want more of everything

what i want, what i need, there is no space in between
what i want, what i need, there is no space in between

what i want and what i need
there is no space in between
how could this have been foreseen
i've become a need machine

need machine

machine

machine

bury me
bury me
bury me in my own landfill

i'll keep chasing til the end
they say you can't take it with you
i'll be damned if i don't try

what i want, what i need, there is no space in between
what i want, what i need, there is no space in between

bury me in my own landfill x4

Song Stats

Hits: 1040
Comments: 33
Fans: 21
Plays: 191
Downloads: 48

Uploaded: Jun 05, 2012 - 10:24:00 PM
Last Updated: Apr 23, 2013 - 05:42:24 PM Last Played: Jun 17, 2013 - 08:21:50 AM

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alackbass	alackbass said 379 days ago (June 6th, 2012)
	more (w/tokai) Strong melody and some very good harmonies. The mood of the vocal contrasts nicely with Steve's heavy guitars. Great guitar solo. Excellent phrasing there and a killer tone. All of Steve's parts sound great and build really well. I love the consistent and pumping bass. Great bass sound. Check out my latest song called Close to the Bone by Jerry Quinn

carbon	carbon said 379 days ago (June 6th, 2012)
	ab hey, thank you for your kind words. steve's guitar solo is definitely my favorite part of the song. i had to ask mr. modest to crank it up... haha. your support is greatly appreciated. Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

davisamerica	davisamerica said 379 days ago (June 6th, 2012)
	stevex2 ..... woa .... this is totally solid. you gents play well off each other... thanks for the download..wow! Check out my latest song called 12

carbon	carbon said 379 days ago (June 6th, 2012)
	da hi, thanks for stopping by and offering your words of support. it is a great honor to have been part of a song that someone would download. i hope it stands up to more than one listen. Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

tokai

tokai said 379 days ago (June 6th, 2012)

Machine
Stevo, I know the words off by heart, I sing it enough times. I am very pleased to have been able to share another of your amazing tunes, I realise this became a bit of a open book for me and I exploited all the space you left for me. Many thanks for all your ideas and observations, I loved playing over this thought provoking tune.

Check out my latest song called electric magnetic/Sir Bass

Les_Kloo	Les_Kloo said 377 days ago (June 8th, 2012)
	C Another exciting collab, gents. Sing more. It works. Great guitar work from the Toke, too. DLed, of course. Check out my latest song called SugarBubbleWater

carbon	carbon said 377 days ago (June 8th, 2012)
	dl just an educated guess on the initials. of the names that appear on your tracks that i've downloaded, this is the only one that doesn't sound made up... haha... thanks for stopping by and for the kind words of encouragement. still trying to find my way with vocals but i will continue to try. take care, S Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

Char	Char said 377 days ago (June 8th, 2012)
	I don't think you have to find your way: Your vocal is perfect. It sounds natural, though haunted as befits the lyrics, giving it an everyman's vibe. Doesn't everyone want beyond their need? The guitars and mastering are perfect, too. Check out my latest song called When Loving Is One-sided, Music by Bob Rodgers

carbon	carbon said 376 days ago (June 8th, 2012)
	that's a nice thing to say, Char. thank you. i suppose everyone does want beyond their need, and for me the question is how much is reasonable... where is the line between happiness and self indulgence. i appreciate the drop in. be well, Steve Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

Vic Holman	Vic Holman said 376 days ago (June 8th, 2012)
	more great tune..... there is so much to like about this. excellent job steve x 2 Check out my latest song called They Must

carbon	carbon said 375 days ago (June 9th, 2012)
	vh hey, thanks man! i appreciate that you took some time with this. collabs are so fun! Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

Relic67	Relic67 said 376 days ago (June 9th, 2012)
	needy Nice drums, guitars and vox. I like the varied arrangement and the more spacious parts scattered throughout are particularly effective... enjoyed! Check out my latest song called Someone Else's Thing

carbon	carbon said 375 days ago (June 9th, 2012)
	r67 steve made this super easy for me. all i did was create plenty of space for him to rip over. i'm glad you enjoyed this one. looking forward to hearing your next project. cheers, steve Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

gadzooks	gadzooks said 375 days ago (June 10th, 2012)
	more (w/tokai) Very cool tune ... great playing, excellent use of the soundscape ... well mixed. Cheers SG Check out my latest song called Coulda Shoulda

carbon	carbon said 375 days ago (June 10th, 2012)
	sg thanks for your kind words. this project gave me a new appreciation for how difficult vocals are. how do you make it seem so easy? appreciate you dropping by. steve Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

dave_b	dave_b said 374 days ago (June 11th, 2012)
	more Rhythm section stands out for me. Drumming is innovative, and the pulsing bass provides an anchor. Haunted vocals with the drawn out phrasing is a good contrast. The overall vibe of the song reminds me of U2. Check out my latest song called Llarions Blues

carbon	carbon said 373 days ago (June 11th, 2012)
	db hi dave. thanks so much for stopping by and leaving this nice comment. steve did a lot of work with the percussion, which gave life to the original basic drum loops i sent him. i love to keep the rhythm section in the pocket as much as possible, without too much in the way of fills. i'm glad you enjoyed this. steve Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

ktb	ktb said 373 days ago (June 12th, 2012)
	more Rich and deep in texture. Diggin this all the way through. Love the build towards the end. Your vocal is outstanding. Radiates NEED :-) Check out my latest song called Blackwater (by Tokai)

carbon	carbon said 372 days ago (June 12th, 2012)
	ktb thank you for checking this out. glad you found it to your liking. i appreciate your encouragement on the vocal... definitely challenging to share the same space with toke's mean guit. steve Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

egobandit	egobandit said 365 days ago (June 20th, 2012)
	more Sorry I was late for this been waiting on a Carbon tune, A need machine love that line, there is an intensity to this that really grabs hold the bass line in really cool, tokai really lets it loose on this this. its true we should all be buried in our own landfill thanks for the download Check out my latest song called piece it together

carbon

carbon said 364 days ago (June 20th, 2012)

eb
hi tim, always good to hear from you. this one took forever, but steve hung in there with me. i love his guitar playing and feel so fortunate to have him contribute; the solo is my favorite part to listen to. i'm glad you connected to the lyrics of the song. maybe a little bit of a downer, but i try to sing about stuff that means something to me. anyway, thanks again for stopping by and motivating me to keep going.

Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

plexura	plexura said 262 days ago (September 30th, 2012)
	I like Well put together. It all works well together. Go team! Check out my latest song called Belonging

bud	bud said 257 days ago (October 5th, 2012)
	Cool alt ska feel Excellent bass tone and line - and the guitars fit real nice. Nice vocal treatment too. This place is still the coolest music lab around. Check out my latest song called fig field

billykirsch	billykirsch said 229 days ago (November 3rd, 2012)
	Hypnotic This reminds me of something I don't remember. Perhaps some beautiful music I cried with while dreaming. Check out my latest song called Everything

ElPeruano	ElPeruano said 175 days ago (December 26th, 2012)
	2 steve jimmy band name? eh? eh? yikes I heard the original and this takes it to another place. great job on the production. the vocals really shine here. please keep making music together. Check out my latest song called prayer to the muse

carbon

carbon said 175 days ago (December 27th, 2012)

2 steve jimmy
haha... i'll run that by toke and see what he thinks...

thanks for giving this one your time. the production is all steve (tokai)in this instance. i try to keep up with him even though he is on higher plane. he's a good friend, so i'm sure we'll continue to work together. thanks for the vote of confidence.

cheers,

steve

Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

Maximum_Lux	Maximum_Lux said 171 days ago (December 30th, 2012)
	Awesome! I haven't been here in awhile...Great song...rainy-day-gritty-vibe. Love this! This is a great collab, It's got that great mid-90's alternative feel. Thanks for sharing and the download! Check out my latest song called Not Enough

carbon	carbon said 169 days ago (January 2nd, 2013)
	hi Matthew it's great to hear from you; i was worried that you had left. thank you for giving this your time. i am happy you enjoyed this - i too have an affinity for all things 90's. looking forward to hearing your next post! Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

Trillian

Trillian said 120 days ago (February 20th, 2013)

Cool tune dude....
But more often than not, wanting more will backfire on your "posterior" and either leave you with a scorched earth life, or you become a sad, pathetic cautionary tale on an episode of the dysfunctional TV series, "Hoarders." (giggle) Loved the music tho !!! 'Carbon'? Would that equate to your avatar? = Carbon Footprint? You must be good buddies with my Big Brother SmokeyVW.... ;~ D Thanks for inviting me over to your page, Bud. : )

carbon

carbon said 118 days ago (February 21st, 2013)

oh dear.
i am afraid you may have misinterpreted the lyrics of this song. they were meant to be an acknowledgement of my personal selfishness and a repudiation/renunciation of this attitude, not a celebration of it.

i am sincerely troubled by an attitude of ever increasing consumerism, and infinite growth economic models coupled with a lack of understanding that the earth's resources are finite. unfortunately, the only thing i can do is adjust my own behaviors and write a dumb song about it.

as for my carbon avatar, this has nothing to do with a carbon footprint. it has to do with the one element that is common in all living creatures. it is the thing that bind us all and demonstrates our interconnectedness.

lastly, i'll mention that i know very little about smokey vw other than my impression that he is a heck of a musician and seems to have a powerful intellect.

thanks for popping in and sharing your thoughts; it is sincerely appreciated!

cheers,

steve

Check out my latest song called 12.26.12 (retread remix)

Trillian

Trillian said 116 days ago (February 23rd, 2013)

Oh, no, I really do understand, I think.....
It's why my son & daughter, and most of their contemporaries, always have to acquire the latest (buncha "Gs" ) iPhone or "In Vogue" laptop/iPad, Big(ger) flat screen t.v., etc... , and will pay $6.00 on a way too fussy & complicated set of + or - instructions cup of Starbucks coffee, and waste too much of their paychecks on picking up dinner on the way home from work ~ Consumerism.... It used to be called "keeping up with the Jones' ", but now it's more like trying to keep up with the "Jetsons" (old futuristic t.v. cartoon series) ~ the break neck speed of the www. super highway rat race...., It's a wonder how over half of the rest of the world survives and still manages to carve out decent lives filled with smiles without all of that (convenience and technology overkill.) What was envisioned to save time, more often than not wastes time and productivity as well. And my ref. to the Psych term "Hoarders" ( a form of O.C.D. ) is sort of a strange extreme example ~ "You can't buy happiness"/or fill the chasm of want in a lost soul with an emotional attachment to inanimate things ~ "hoarding" is just an extreme example of consumerism ~ when what the human soul really wants to connect with aren't an over abundance of "things", but those intangible feelings of peace & serenity, love , and a sense of security and well being, which can not be bought..... i.e.. contentment with one's life and place in the world, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. "Love" ~ the only thing we will take with us when we leave this mortal coil. The rest of our "stuff" goes in three categories .... 1) bequeath to loved ones,.... 2) Donate to Charity Thrift/ recycling Stores, and 3) trash bags to the curb or the local dump. : D My children have told me flat out ~ "downsize" now, Mom, 'cause when you "kick the bucket" in 40 ~ 50 years, we don't want to spend months selling your collections on Ebay & Craigs List of your "chatchkes", figurines, memorabilia, totems, and wicked cool souvenirs from your travels, and well crafted furniture that mean nothing to us ~ we just want $$$CASH$$$. Ungrateful Little Offspring! LOL (They might want to fight over my iPod though ~ there's a lot of really wonderful MJ's songs on it!!!) : )

Trillian

Trillian said 116 days ago (February 24th, 2013)

But I may have been somewhat wrong
about the definition of carbon vs. "Carbon Footprint" ~ I was being too broad thinking carbon footprint referred to the waste of natural resources and not just greenhouse gases ~ you know, like strip mining, the deforestation of the timber industry, the over-consumption of non-renewable natural resources (Did you ever see that rather "rough" movie a long while back called "Water World" with Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper? "Go Juice" (fossil fuel) ~ a sort of Ayn Rand (author) Sci-Fi movie adaption ( If 'this' situation exists today, what might be the extreme extrapolation of the outcome? Hmmmm!...) of hope for the human race, in the form of a rare human child's innocence, and the only few adults left on earth, who find each other and their moral consciences compass again through her beautiful soul, and therefor the triumph of the goodness in the human spirit, and the return to love and community that they are willing to fight to the death to save at the last gasp of the good that lives in all of us at 'The End Of The World'. I liked it better than the "Mad Max" movies with Mel Gibson ~ "Waterworld" had a happier and more hopeful ending that countered the theory that the human race would not end with a Bang!, or a Whimper; humankind's extinction by its own greedy hands; our own hubris becoming the architect of our slow extinction becoming the victims of our own excesses ~ but 'Waterworld' ended with hope and the possibility that even with the human race's shortsightedness, we are made in God's image, and each of us have it in us to muster the courage to change the direction of our planet's fate, one committed human soul at a time helping each other out of love to succeed at being worthy of the life God gave us.... Ahhh! Crap! Too Much Existential Belly Button Lint! Huh!?! Jeepers Creepers! Will I ever learn? Geeze Louise! : ) honest. I'm only offering my thoughts on over-consumption and its cost to us all. Please don't take offense, Steve ~ none was inferred or intended. : ) I thought your song was great and very insightful. Wish I had your talent for brevity (lyrics) ;~ P : )

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