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Leave Me Here To Move And Die (Remix) by ScooterDMan [Email]

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Description:
I've rewritten a verse, added effects, redone the vocals, and added a bag of crickets (no joke).
The end of this song (if you dare go that far) is my ode to Jim O'Rourke, a man who makes chaos sound so cool.

Lyrics:
and it's not making sense yea
all this mending of fences
the verbs are past tense yea
like your camcorder lens is

so take off your scarf babe
i dont you like what you prescribe
you ruin the book with what you say
just leave me here to move and die

while you write your prescriptions
with feather pen and bowl of ink
i am drumming on the backspace
to reconstruct this narrative

and the cursor is blinking
like twinkle twinkle little star
how i wonder if i am now
mediated from the start

switch...

i think you exist but i cannot say for sure
my world is physically affected by the swinging of a door
and you are physically attractive to those who can't endure
the pain of actual reality you help them to avoid

i was caught up in conversation couple weeks ago
bout what constitutes intelligence and how are we are to know
that the sky's really blue and the latest research shows
we were monkeying around just a million years ago

chorus:
i think i'll die by this light
chorus:
i think i'll die by this light

my wrist is crimped and cramped from manipulating this
wandering arrow that i navigate with
and it needles through my skin and helps me get my fix
when i point it at the screen and proceed to double click

its heart is smaller than pinhead, it's beating all the time
you can view it through a microscope if it's magnified
now i know that this is true because the truth it doesnt lie
it is beeping it is bleeding it is feeding me tonite

chorus
i think i'll die by this light

bridge:
doot doot doot doot

this is the place where the battle will be waged
between ambitious binary digits and the neurons they'll replace
for now i am happy i can recognize my face
your unshakable resistance only expedites the change.

(noise)
switch...

and the radio's dying
like my grandfathers did
but this'll be a funeral
that i'd never argue with

so the medium moves on yea
but the message still lives
"Young man, here's an outline,
you can fill the rest in."

you can fill the rest in
leave me here to move and die (repeat)

Hardware:
powerbook g4
ibanez acoustic electric
casio keyboard/gb musical keyboard
20 medium-sized crickets
m-audio mobilepre

Software:
gb
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clever lyrics &mdash 04/06/05 - 04:44:39 AM
A nice simple emotional song. I'm left with the sense that
technology is marching forward and leaving our humanity
in it's wake. Very toughtful, I like it

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clever lyrics &mdash 04/07/05 - 02:20:17 AM
i dont know why i feel compelled to sing about the march of technology, but
it seems to always come out in my song writing. i think it probably has to do
with documenting a period of time so when we look back, we associate the
feeling of the time with the sounds. to me, this song is a reflection of the type
of music that i've come to appreciate, the kind of music that's not only
informed by its placement in time, but made possible by the technology that
accompanies it.

thanks for commenting.

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shinier version &mdash 04/06/05 - 05:56:34 AM
The world you have created in this song is very
interesting. Sounds like you are singing about something
very important. I'm still not sure what it is? Maybe alley-
oop has summed it up (above).

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shinier version &mdash 04/07/05 - 02:34:48 AM
thanks for listening, tom. i spent an hour recording this initially, and five
making the changes, which my girlfriend described as "subtle."
im glad you noticed.
still need to work on the vocals, but overall im pleased with this for now.

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Much improved &mdash 04/07/05 - 09:10:57 AM
ScooterD - this is a marked improvement over the
previous version. I love the way the mood swings from a
Cat Stevens vibe, through Chris DeBurg into a totally
unique feel. Vocals are bang on now and it went into the
MP3 player.

If you feel a need to revisit this one, the rhythm guitar in
the opening movement is still a tad fuzzy for my tastes
(was it recorded a little loud perhaps?) but it's really a
minor AM point. I love the little bell-like riffs (not sure
what instrument they are but they worked) and wouldn't
mind a bit more of them, not a lot but some might be an
idea.

Fantastic world, this one. 8s across.
cheers
snow


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Much improved &mdash 04/07/05 - 09:33:48 AM
thanks for the lengthy response. the bell is simply the electric piano in garage
band. i use the "musical keyboard" for most of the keyboarding on this one;
it's the feature that allows you to type on the music on the computer
keyboard (new feature in GB 2, i believe). so the repeated bell sound your
talking about is simply me typing L over and over again, if i remember
correctly.
as far as re-recording the guitar, i know that i need to. however, this song is
more than 30 tracks deep, so i wont be revisiting until after school ends in
the beginning of may (you should see how my g4 powerbook handles that
many tracks---what a trooper!). by then, im hoping to have a friend of my
mine replace the plucking parts with some feedback-heavy solos.

thanks again for taking the time, it means a lot.

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