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For better or worse, I wrote, recorded and posted a new song from scratch every day in January 2010. Feel free to comment on them. Song-A-Day VI is the sixth year of a whacky experiment that has proven quite fun and productive. You can download them free. If you prefer to pay, donate (and thanks).
Song-A-Day VI Day 31 Knock Me Over knock me over if it costs you your stars and your stripes knock me over knock me over so you don’t have to look at the sight knock me over knock me over turned from the pillar of salt and light knock me over like back when it began oh-oh only have what you’re given and if you’re muscles ache oh-oh only have what you can take you try to lift your chin oh-oh only have what you’re given to be more than you are oh-oh have it if you knock me over knock me over like a domino pushing in line knock me over knock me over like you’re very own 4thy of july knock me over knock me over you can’t slow down and i can’t retreat knock me over knock me over there’s no victory without defeat knock me over like back when it began oh-oh only have what you’re given and if you’re muscles ache oh-oh only have what you can take you try to lift your chin oh-oh only have what you’re given to be more than you are oh-oh have it if you knock me over knock me over Knock Me Over Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 31, 2010 2 comments Share Song-A-Day VI Day 30 So, in the rules of "Song-A-Day", passed down from the prophets, there are 2 slop days allowed. This seems to be one of them, though I don't mean to diss the great Jesse Lukes, and Emily Reese who are my cohorts in this impromptu jam-song that annoyed the neighbors for sure. It was recorded with my phone. Song-A-Day VI Day 30 Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 30, 2010 Add comment Share Song-A-Day VI Day 29 What a long day. Here's this though. Your Cherry Wine enough talk let me see your sass walk find another frequency band know that purr under lacquers of myrrh don’t want you to misunderstand take my love and then triple it triple it had your cherry wine in a cup with a coffee lid sipping it feeling the design move that thing working on your back swing like a liquid crystal display temptation with no hesitation but you’d never lead me astray take my love and then triple it triple it had your cherry wine in a cup with a coffee lid sipping it feeling the design birds in fairy light trying, though they might can’t carry me tonight stomp your feet along with the back beat that look got all over your face choice of strobe or tying a blindfold but you’d never lead me astray never lead me astray Your Cherry Wine Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 29, 2010 2 comments Share Song-A-Day VI Day 28 something got into the cake found a slithering snake high on the bookshelf stored sounds in a broken shell grateful or sneering cynic lining pharmacy clinic tell me it isn’t your miniature prison behind every closed door around every corner sad hearted mourners stalk wading and wishful study the fish bowl breathing each others muck gather the canary’s song share it and then we’ll belong high on the bookshelf stored sounds in a broken shell behind every closed door around every corner sad hearted mourners stalk wading and wishful study the fish bowl breathing each others muck In a Broken Shell Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 28, 2010 Add comment Share Song-A-Day VI Day 27 This song doesn't have words, due to me spilling a drink into my mac. Lucky the neighbors had a computer for me to upload with. It's a bit long, but I kinda like it without words. Song-A-Day VI Day 27 Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 27, 2010 Add comment Share song-A-Day VI Day 26 mi amore freckle and hyde always bent never the bride now you’ve gone too far i’m gonna need a fast car one with lightening on the sides (oh yeah gone to far he’s gonna need a fast car) this old motor’s gotten week verdant valleys and high peaks now you’ve gone too far i’m gonna need a fast car one that’s powerful and sleek (oh yeah gone to far he’s gonna need a fast car) hit my head when i fell into the muddy river face down woke up in the soft arms of a silky nightgown she said “what was i to do? wasn’t gonna just let you drown” “you babble in your sleep, but nothing very profound” windshield is collecting mist see how bad the vision gets now you’ve gone too far i’m gonna need a fast car one that never can exist Fast Car Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 26, 2010 Add comment Share Song-A-Day VI Day 25 gave away my youth in tiny pieces over time gave away my age when i went deaf and dumb and blind and i would be angry at the cruelness of fate but i lost my feelings on a bet that they could wait gave my purity to an unsatisfying sin gave away my worship to an idol made by men gave away the dirt where i had once put up a shrine gave away my home because it wasn’t really mine stains along the floor from when i still wept when you walk away you take whatever i have left stepping on the crumbs that i never swept when you walk away you take whatever i have left gave away my wisdom to lighten up for a race gave away my logic to a soul without a face i’ll try to debate you for the winnings that you seek but i lost my reason just when i began to speak and if you are destitute with starving mouth to feed already gave my money to somebody not in need i would help you figure how to come up with a cure but i gave my ideas to budding entrepreneurs stains along the floor from when i still wept when you walk away you take whatever i have left stepping on the crumbs that i never swept when you walk away you take whatever i have left i would be after you in an agonizing chase but like many fools i couldn’t have my heart replaced you could try to mobilize me with regrets and guilt but i lost my conscience to a con artist and jilt i gave up my title because it was obsolete gave up my identity to be rid of conceit i gave up my goals because they were too far to reach i gave up my will to the tide gnawing at the beach stains along the floor from when i still wept when you walk away you take whatever i have left stepping on the crumbs that i never swept when you walk away you take whatever i have left Whatever I Have Left Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 25, 2010 Add comment Share Song-A-Day VI Day 24 After some musical successes at the cabin, it was time for Emily and me to write about our girlfriends. Girlfriend Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 24, 2010 Add comment Share Song-A-Day VI Day 23 Thanks to Emily Reese for all the help on this one! If you can't tell, it was super fun. Enjoy. Be Static Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 23, 2010 Add comment Share Song-A-Day VI Day 22 This is the first of a few done up in a cabin north of Duluth. You may hear Emily Reese singing harmony. Lyrics: Discovering the Secrets of the World doubled equations and i can’t add no more how many knocks should i put on your door sorry if i am too persistent i so wanna be your assistant think it’s a simple series of events tell you what you can do with my common sense give it the kilowatts degrees and wait until it is begging for mercy oh, what are you showing under a lab coat discovering the secrets of the world my bubbling beaker might turn out a freak discovering the secrets of the world move to the green rhythms of radar skip rocks off reflections of the stars calculating all the thermal energy i’m glad that you’re so smart you have the method now it is time to choose you have connected serious molecules snapping the playful band elastic breaking the laws of mathematics oh, what are you showing under a lab coat discovering the secrets of the world my bubbling beaker might turn out a freak discovering the secrets of the world forces are in motion and collide it passed time for you to come outside make room in the cabin of your rocket ship and we’ll go for a ride Discovering the Secrets of the World Download MP3 Subscribe with iTunes Jan 22, 2010 Add comment Share Older Posts »
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