They say the a journey of a thousand licks begins with a single harmonic. Or at least they should. First day of the challenge and I've written, recorded and uploaded my first song: Slave to Reason.
This one started out with a couple of riffs that gave me a bit of a stoner-rock vibe. Not quite sure where the title came from, I think I was just watching all the insanity on the news and feeling all idealistic, then wondered if my tendency to try and be rational about everything and attach meaning is sometimes a disadvantage in life. Deep, dude. Out came "slave to reason" and the rest of the lyrics slotted in around it.
Thankfully I've started out with a genre that isn't renown for the profundity of it's lyrics and certainly won't become so from this contribution. The natural guitar harmonics happened by accident (to marvelous effect), though I take full responsibility for the prog-rock organ and and make no apologies for it either!
It's a rough cut - there's a bit of a skip into the chorus, a couple of bum-notes and it's the first time I've used my vocal cords in anger for a while - but overall I'm extremely pleased with it. I'll go back and polish it up later (hopefully in the company of a real drummer) but no time for that now; thirteen more songs to write...
Slave to Reason
Give me answers, give me names,
I need to know right now.
Give me a culprit, someone to blame,
Make them show me how.
I need a reason, I want to see,
Someone explain it please - it can't just "be".
Things don't just happen by themselves,
And they've been happening to me.
I'm a slave to reason,
The who, the what, the how, the when, the why.
Your faith is like treason,
Don't you need to know to know that you're alive?
Confusion blinds me, I cannot see,
If I don't understand.
If I don't get it, it gets me,
Show me what's in your other hand.
The world's gone crazy, my mind's aloft
In an endless circle of circumstance.
I give up asking, the question's lost
to the harbingers of happenstance.
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