S.A.W (not the bloody kind)

My buddy Richard is the one to blame for getting my ass in motion writing some new stuff by forcing me to participate in his Song a Week podcast, the original idea of which subtly inspired this blog (and by subtly inspired I mean I completely ripped it off). So, here's my entry in the 1 Song a Week podcast, entitled "Where the Grass is Greener".

I've got to thank my friends from Dust is Noise / ADR for introducing me to the Melodyne plugin. You're hearing it heavily used throughout this track. It's giving my verse vocals that robotic sound, and it's making my chorus vocals sound like I'm singing four parts when I'm actually only singing like 1.5. Fun fact: It's also used to create the voice of GLaDOS from the game Portal, which, if you haven't played through entirely, you should quit slacking and go do right now (you know who you are).

The rest of the track is thoroughly classic SoR stuff. Weird synthetic textures with an old school synthpop song structure and totally gay chorus crammed in on top of an otherwise industrial track. If you're a fan of Son of Rust or this blog (meaning that you check in every few years or so) I like to keep people guessing and please absolutely nobody by aggressively mixing genre's that go together about as well as jews and arabs. It creates a caustic mix that I like to call "that Son of Rust sound". Yummers.

IF you're wondering where I've been for five months, and I'm sure all five of you are, I've been putting most of my free time into an actual human relationship (Hi, Kat!), building my computer repair business (www.1201.com, yo!), and finishing work on two remix albums. One for Son of Rust that has about 5 original Son of Rust mixes on it and one for the Slants that contains 7 tracks of which I worked on 7. So I haven't been slacking. Really, I haven't. Stop looking at me like that.

Here are the lyrics:

you
try to lead but you hide
thinking time is on your side
when you fail
you wonder why

sweat
as the minutes pass you by
as the storm blacks out the sky
once again you say
goodbye

you
run and hide
as the times get leaner
I'll see you
on the side
where the grass is greener
all the tears
we have cried
never reach you deeper
I'll see you
on the side
where the grass is greener

you
put your pride before the fall
threw yourself against the wall
thinking you
could have it all

breathe
as the minutes tick away
as you waste another day
knowing this
is where you'll stay

.chorus

...oh, and if you hate my music and are just here because you suffered a blow to the head and think I'm some sort of literary genius you should check out my computer repair blog here. You just might learn something!