"Makes Me Mad" a Hook original for JazzFest

[Hook]

This is 1 of 2 I wrote & recorded on Thursday, a few different car sessions throughout the day. The verse is in 9/8 & the chorus is in 5/4. The baritone uke was recorded with the irig pickup through the amplitude iphone app. It's a bit of a pain in the ass & it picks up every move you make, every slide across the back of the uke...Oh well.
1 rhythm baritone uke (stereo)
1 lead baritone uke (stereo)
1 vocal (stereo)

Makes Me Mad

written & performed by Hook

I wish I could play ukulele
like Eddie Van Halen plays guitar
instead I play like my
grandmother driving a car

wish I could think myself
out of intense predicament
instead I'm putting round pegs
in square holes like an infant

Perhaps I paint to bleak a picture
maybe it's not as bad
but I don't feel comfortable
and that makes me mad

I wish I acquired wealth
enough to sustain my own for generations
Instead I Pinch every penny
and divide them into up equal rations

Perhaps I cloud my vision
with spots  stripes and plaids
I seem to have dropped my eye for beauty
and that that makes me mad

I wish I was eloquent
and had been graced with a silver tongue
Instead words are like hurdles
and meanings are ladders with broken rungs

Perhaps I deceive myself
Plots left of center a tad
Conspiracy that could possibly be
And that makes me mad

[Redler]

Very trippy jazz song! Nice job!

[kenny mac]

Very thought provoking lyrics Hook,bet Eddie van halen can't stop by the roadway to record a tune.
Nice one.

[Groundy]

Very thought provoking lyrics Hook,bet Eddie van halen can't stop by the roadway to record a tune.
Nice one.

So true, another hit for me Hook.......


Alex

[Farrell Jackson]

Very easy going jazzy sound on the two Ukes with some thought provoking words Hook! Does the IRig pickup attach to the Uke? It sure picks up clearly.

Farrell

[fenderbender]

You are a one man music machine Hook
your musical imagination knows no bounds
this one grows on you BIG time
Congrats



Tommy

[thetworegs]

Jazz on!!

[Johnny Robbo]

Ukulele jazz... it's a new one on me. It works brilliantly though. Bravo, mate!

[Ella]

This is very captivating! Good sound. Clear and exiting.