Give Up The Ghost (Gloomy Gus Song #4)

Poor Gloomy Gus; he sure is gloomy. He's thinking about what his epitaph will eventually say, but he can't come up with any ideas. (This is the 4th song in the Gloomy Gus and the Forest That's About to Die album).

I must confess - whoops - I accidentally plagiarized part of a rap from another song o' mine. I didn't realize it till after the fact. Oh well, I guess it's legal if it's your own self that you're copying from.

Post-script: The player at the very bottom is a slightly tweaked version where I got RID OF THE OUT OF TUNE VOCALS - Arrrrrghghghgggghhghgghhghghgh. Maybe I'll looking into some pitch correction devices, ha ha.  As usual the MP4 version of the song has a big, dumb, long pause at the end cuz the MP4 converter online thingy wants to do that for some reason. 

Part of the Theme Song of the Hell: Part 2 Movie

The first part (before the rapping comes in) is gonna be part of the sound track of the movie I'm working on. It's gonna be in 3 parts; the first part o'' the movie is already on YouTube (make sure the player thingy is on high definition if you choose to watch it). Part 2 is still in a bunch of wee, bite-sized installments that I'm eventually gonna put together just like I did for Hell Part 1 and upload onto YouTube (and maybe other places). Anyway, this is a fragment of a song I wrote in 2023; it's a song that's kind of the theme song of Hell: Part 2. Boodles the Poodle is in Hell: Part 2.

Scroll to the bottom for a slightly better version (I had put the wrong emphAsis on the wrong syllAble at one point, and it was driving me crazy, so I fixed it).

Hell: Part 1:

https://beckyshomemadesongs.blogspot.com/2025/04/hell-part-1.html

Hell: Part 2:

https://beckyshomemadesongs.blogspot.com/2025/04/hell-movie-part-2.html

New and improved version (with a big, dumb long pause at the end):

It's Just the Way It Is (Gloomy Gus Song #3)

This is song #3 in the Gloomy Gus album. I wasn't expecting to record a song today, but I was washing dishes, and this song came to me. Well, it's more of a variation-on-a-theme-song, I guess you could call it. Jung would hate it cuz he hates polyphonies. Actually, the singing part is more call-and-response-ish, now that I'm thinking of it, so maybe Jung wouldn't hate it. But I think he'd probably hate the part at the end cuz the rapping-over-the-singing stuff has a polyphony-ish flavor to it.

Or maybe the piano melody under the main theme part counts as being a polyphony...maybe so. Maybe Jung would hate this song, after all!!

Gloomy Gus song #2

This is the second song in the album with the working title, "Gloomy Gus and the Forest That's About to Die." Gloomy Gus is busy being all sad and gloomy, when he hears music coming out of (seemingly) nowhere. What is this?????????

(This is one of those scratchy vocal cords weeks - I dunno if I'll redo any of these vocals or not).

Here's a possibly better mix (with a dumb, big, long pause at the end):

Gloomy Gus

I'm posting this a day early cuz I'm having company tomorrow, so I won't be doin' my usual Friday song. Actually, me and said company are gonna work on a song, but it's gonna be a long-term project. Stay tuned for that!

This is an alternative version of the song I wanted to record last week but didn't cuz my voice was all janky. I'm considering starting a new little concept album. This song and another song came to me and said, "Make an album out of us!" So, I might just do it. If that's the case, this might end up being Track #1 of said new concept album.

why my songs sound like shit these days

 

If you follow this music page, you've probably noticed that my voice has been deteriorating over time...basically there's a mystery something or other that's negatively impacting my health and giving my cats health issues too, and it's a bad thing. That, combined with lack o' sleep did a number on my dumb voice this week. Bleh. I think I know what the mystery something-or-other is - well, lemme take that back. I don't know what the mystery something-or-other is, but I know where it came from. And even though I got rid of the thing that contaminated the house, the badness is sticking around. Lots and lots of badness.

The Room I Never Use

This is a song from the point of view of a person with a mystery-room in her house. It relates to Jungian psychology stuff. If I'm remembering correctly, all of us have parts of ourselves that we don't accept, so we push them outta conscious awareness, and they end up in the Shadow, which is almost like this being made up of a conglomeration of parts of us that we don't accept about ourselves. I think I'm getting that right, but I might be wrong about that. Anyway, the room in the song might just signify that shadow complex. I don't know yet.

Now that typepad is dead and gone, I've been trying to figure out how to have more than one audio player on here in case the above one isn't compatible with people's portable electronic devices. I think I found the solution (sort of).

....this is thingy down below is an MP4 file of the song, where I'm pretending it's a video  (blogspot lets you upload videos, but not music - hence the MP4 nature of this). That way, if the above player thingy doesn't work on your portable electronic device, here's another option...If this DOES work, this is a slightly different version of the song, in which there is a little instrumental part in it to break up the monotony of it.

Okay, the online converter thingy where i converted it into a movie file messed up a bit, and there's a big long space at the end. But, anyway, here's another option of a music player thingy you can listen to it on.

I Hate Halloween

 I really don't like Halloween anymore. I used to, but recently, it's been sucking really bad. I can't wait for November 1 to roll around.

Post-script: Upon listening to this after the fact, I'm realizing it sounds a little harsh. The "fuck you" and "go to hell" aspect of things isn't aimed at the cute little kids who came to my door between the hours of 6:30 and 8:30 - it's aimed at the obnoxious assholes that kept coming to my door till 9:38pm. You just cain't have a chill night when people are ringing your bell ALL fucking night long. There. 

The Devil is Living in My House

 This is a song about trying to get rid of the devil and stuff.

The furry thing at the top of the picture is part of my cat.

They Thought I Was Gonna Have a Short Life

This is another song where I took a sample from that movie I'm makin' and made it into a song using the melody that the person talking's voice forms. Yes. The title pretty much conveys what the song's about.

Here are the lyrics cuz the speeeeedy nature of the rap (and the consequent slurring of some words, ugh).

They thought I was gonna have a short life

Ghosts inside my living room are playing

Pac-Man and then this thing they start sayin'

Gives me the creeps. They said that I would 

Not live long. What's wrong with me? My goodness

The Ghost of All Things in the Past

Said, "Yer toast." Oh, no! I can see that's 

Something that will give me anxiety

Mind's freaked - I don't like it

The Ghost of Future Happenings

Told me something that is saddening

He boldly told me, "You will be deader

Than a door nail. You won't get better

Cuz You'll Be dead. And then I saw

The Ghost of All Things Present, oh my God

He said I'd kick the bucket and then he 

Disappeared. Shit. What he said sent me

Down a big spiral. My world is getting

Stupid and confusing. Is the sun setting

On my life? I don't know how to 

Take this news. I guess I'll say, "Wow, dude."

They thought I was gonna have a short life

Will I see more Christmases?

What they said would happen is the pits

Will I see more birthdays now? 

What the spirits said makes me say, "Wow."

Will I die of some disease?

I hope that this passing is easy

But I guess I cannot choose

How I die, so I'll drink some booze

They thought I was gonna have a short life

Years Ago - 2025 Version

I was downloading hundreds of my old songs a few weeks ago cuz Typepad was going defunct (that's site that hosted the little blue player thingies that you probably see on older entries but are no longer here cuz it's gone). 

I came across this old ditty that I'd forgotten about, and I realized it's a nice little tune (or, at least, that's what my ears think - others might not agree). So I did a cover of my own song just for shits and giggles. It's a lot different from the original cuz I added a B phrase and some rap and stuff. And I experimented with making the bass really super deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep about 1/3 of the way into the tune.I mean, the original of this song is quite nice, but I was in the mood to revisit this old ditty, so here it is. It's a song that I originally wrote years ago that's called "Years Ago." That's an odd thing, all by itself.

Stupid Singing

This song could mean that I'm a stupid person singing; or it could mean that I'm a person singing stupidly. (And, now that I think of it, both are true in real life). The spirits mentioned in it could be booze or they could be spirits of dead people. I guess.