Such Strange Times by Oldrottenhead

[Oldrottenhead]

Tried to go all funky covid.
anyway
It is what it is.

Have you ever ever known
Has there ever ever been
Have you ever ever lived
In such strange times
I'm sure it's happened all before
Just not in my time
in my time
in our time
Long ago in days of yore
Just not in my time
In my time
In our time
Could you have ever guessed
Could you have even imagined
That we would be living
In such strange times
I'm sure we've all been here before
Just not in my time
in my time
in our time
Long ago in days of yore
Just not in my time
In my time
In our time
Could we have perhaps been prepared
For unforeseen circumstances
Ready to do what we have to do
In such strange times
I'm sure it's happened all before
Just not in my time
in my time
in our time
Long ago in days of yore
Just not in my time
In my time
In our time

Such Strange Times

W/M
by
Oldrottenhead
Harley Benton Telecaster Copy
Garageband drums
Korg nanopad for bass and soft synths
Vocals via USB Mic
All recorded on MacBook in Garageband

[Greeny]

Love it. Breezy but insistent. The bass line is amazing! Such a great song and delivery. Beautiful lines & melodies, man.

It's already lodged in my head.

[hooper]

So true...
'Nobody told me there'd be days like these, Strange days indeed.

[alfstone]

Absolutely true.

We - I mean our actual generations - imagined we could have lived the whole of our life without a great disaster such as World War I and II, Spanish Flu and all the other plagues that have crossed our ancestors' life, and instead...

Alfredo

[Flash Harry]

funktastic

I like it, open and fresh, lovely chugga chugga guitars, nice.

[Mike_S]

Absolutely true.

We - I mean our actual generations - imagined we could have lived the whole of our life without a great disaster such as World War I and II, Spanish Flu and all the other plagues that have crossed our ancestors' life, and instead...

Alfredo

Nobody saw this coming... so surreal. I think it has kind of been a bit of a wake up call to the world. We cannot take life and all the comforts most of us enjoy for granted. We are only human and the forces of nature are stronger than us when they wish to be.

Great song Jim

Mike

[Redler]

Superb job from start to end, James!

[Ferryman_1957]

This is excellent Jim. A really good groove and a very catchy melody. Very nice instrumentation and great guitar sounds. I also really liked the nice wide stereo image in the production. As always, brilliant lyrics and very well sung.

You really hit the nail on the head. It has happened many times before through history, and many people saw this coming, especially after the Ebola outbreak. There's a great TedTalk from Bill Gates in 2015 warning that a flu-like pandemic was the greatest existential facing mankind in the forseeable future. But mankind is doomed to ignore the lessons of history, because we always do..... It seems new to us, even though it's happened before.   

[tonyc]

great song . that beat got me going , and love the vocals , great lyrics, superb listen ......cheers tony cee