I Don't Know How to Live in This World

I don't know how to live in this world mix 2

I was thinkin', when I initially recorded that wee little demo last week of the hook of this song, I should make it a song about alienation. But I wasn't sure how to do that. Then I realized I could just make it about being, literally, an alien. So, here's my song song about being an alienated alien.

We Like West Wing

We Like West Wing

This is the next song in the effed up relationship album, Part 3. It's about how after the girl and guy get back together, they get into the show, The West Wing. They really dig it. They watch it together and it becomes their thing. It's their thing. The West Wing is their thing.

Quarter Tone

Quarter Tone

I was talking to a very smart man the other day. He's a music person. He said why is it such a hard and fast Western music rule that we have confine ourselves to 12 tones? Twelve tones that are a semi tone apart. Why can't we do music in quarter tones, or even smaller increments? I mean, Indian music has smaller intervals. So, I thought I'd do a little experiment. What would a song with quarter tones in it sound like? It actually sounds more regular than I thought it would sound.

Half Blind and Out of Balance

Half Blind and Out of Balance V3spliced

Half Blind and Out of Balance V2 Mix 2

Half Blind and Out of Balance V3

 Here's a second version of the song, Half Blind and Out of Balance. Or, more, like, it's a different song with the same name. I'm still not sure if I'm all the way satisfied with it, especially cuz my vocals suck today. I think there's smoke coming from a wild fire up north and it's making my voice all janky. 

Okay, I just did another recording in another key of this version of the song, but I still feel like there's something missing. Sigh. I think it needs to be more darker and mysterious and shit than it sound like right now. I suck.

Okay, I still suck, but the version where it sez, "spliced" in the title might be the bestest version of this song. But it still sucks. 

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I Don't Know How to Live in This World Introduction

 

I Don't Know How to Live in This World Intro

This is a brief li'l introduction to a song that'll some day be an actual song. I cain't think of a B phrase right now; so I figured I'd put this up, so if I die before I think of the rest of the song, the world'll be able to hear what I have so far.

You Shouldn't Be That Mean To Your Sweetie

You Shouldn't Be That Mean

You Shouldn't Be That Mean Mix 2

This is the next song in the fucked up relationship album, part 3. Everything seemed like it was going good with the used-to-be-ex-but-now-present-boyfriend that the girl got back together with. But then he made a mean joke. And he said, "can't you take a joke?" That's one of the number one tools of a gaslighter. Say something mean and then make it so the other person is "too sensitive" cuz it's a "joke."

We're Running Out of Water

 I'm short on time; I'll add a picture later, maybe. Sorry, it's another climate crisis song. I'll writer other types of songs soon. I promise!

I'm Gonna Amputate Your Amputation

 

Amputate Your Amputation

This is the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album; the girl and guy got back together, and he's giving her a guilt trip for having broken up with him, sayin' the breakup made it feel like he'd lost a limb. Like bein' amputated!!!!!! The girl says, hey, why don't I amputate your amputation? As in, why don't I put the limb back on?

 

When the Oak Trees Die

 

When the Oak Trees Die

This song is about a real thing; a developer wants to come in and remove 3-4K old growth oak trees and remove some federally endangered species, so he can build high density housing that'll be a fire hazard and create so much air pollution that nearby residents will die of lung cancer. But, hey! Let's make some money. We're in a climate crisis, and this is exactly what we should NOT be doing. There're plenty of flat, barren pieces of land this motherfucker can build on.

 
Anyway, if this developer succeeds and his rape-of-the-land-just-for-fun-project gets approved, I'm gonna get a bunch of people and we're gonna get together and SCREAM at the TOP of our LUNGS, a song of wailing and mourning for those poor oaks as they get murdered. It'll be a song of (peaceful) revolution. It'll be a scream to let the Spirit World know these trees are coming. It'll be a scream that'll radiate out to the entire earth. 

Here's the website of an organization that's trying to stop this horrible thing:

https://stopdanareserve.com/

Yell At Him

Yell At Him

 This is the next song in the fucked up relationship album, Part 3. The girl, while being disturbed by the dream about her yelling at the boyfriend she just got back together with, is also kinda relishing in the catharsis of it all.

God Is Coming Down

God Is Coming Down Mix 3

This is another little apocalyptic ditty. God is disappointed in us. 

Half Blind and Out of Balance

 

Half Blind and Out of Balance

 The comic strip at the top with Chester Bennington's been around for a while, and I've wanted to write that song he's talking about there for a while. The bottom picture is from another book, and it speaks to the same issue. Anyway, I wonder. Was the universe just a burp or a fart from God Almighty? Are we just a turd from God? Are we? Are we?????????????????????/ I think that might be the case.

Lame Dream/What's It All About?

 

Lame Dream Mix 2

Lame Dream Mix 3

This is the first song (maybe) of the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 3. After the newly reunited couple's first night of love, the girl has a dream about a giant fight between her and the boyfriend-dude.

The Land Is Gonna Rise Up/Singing Cowboy Angel Band

The Land Is Gonna Rise Up

The Land Is Gonna Rise Up Mix 2

See, a few weeks ago, I had a vision of a band of cowboy angels that sing the songs of my soul. Here is a song by them. It's another song about our dying planet. Or...or...or...or maybe the planet will make a recovery, after all. Maybe the land will recover after humans are gone.