Real Choice

[WarpCanada]

Little round weight                     
In the center of my chest
Little hopeless thoughts
Kept close to my vest

Little circles of personal frustration
Endless waves of Pointless  vacillation
Dishonest assumptions
Copacetic prevarication

Don't wanna say the way that I really feel
Don't wanna know the reality I conceal

Gimme some medication
God I really need a drink.
Give me some kind of distraction
Amuse means not to think

Oh I'm given to introspection
Oh that was just a lie
I'm given to self distraction
and staring at the sky

chorus:                           
   Give me an answer, let me hear your voice,             
   give me a vision give me a real choice.
   (2x)

In between the nothing 
And the halfway might have been
The incomplete and the insincere.
In my journal's empty pages
Empty of everything but fear
Centuries of thoughts that are all dying away in stages
In the detritus of my hobbies.
In the dust of my dreams as they
died on their pages.
And the selling of my childrens future
In the things that we won't tell the
children,
I told the truth but I'm afraid I told a lie.
...
In the beginning was the sound
The primal gasp of life
Who was I when I yet lived
What may I become after I die.

chorus.

Hi everybody. I'm back with a bit of lyrical dump of recent anxieties.

Recently I read that the greek opening to the gospel of John, translated in English as "In the beginning, was the Word" could also be rendered "In the beginning was the Sound". I like that.

[Zoltan]

You've managed to put a lot of anxieties into words. Hopefully it works as an way to exorcise them I like the song, and the groove. Stylistically it sounds like alternative rock meets Leonard Cohen.
The vocal performance manages to sell the lyrics which is important.

Well done WarpCanada, and great to see that you're back!

[hardlock]

Serious dynamic vibe going on here. Cool! The music has the feel of a large concert with the dramatic lyrics bring it home. Nice work!   

[StephenM]

Great friggin song Warren  
I love the lyrics.  Intelligent and heart felt.  It's like a prayer sort of too.  Trust me I can relate.
The other thing for me is how good the recording is...I think it's your best I've heard. 
Also you some real passion here...cool little lead wedged in there...
It's a great song and recording Warren.  Also I enjoyed the comment on John.  That is one of my favorite chapters in scripture.

Some really great lines in the lyrics

[Ron D Bowes]

Tribal feel this one. Cool lyrics and I like the vocal effect. I assume it's light distortion from a pedal or plug in.Good track ;-)

[Redler]

Very impressive interpretation here. Very powerful and tender at same time. I like this a lot!

[WarpCanada]

> I like the vocal effect.

The vocals are being gained up, heavily compressed, and put through a phase distortion, to simulate the soft clipping effect of overdriving a preamp.  The mix is drenched in my favorite reverb plugin, Native Instruments "Raum".

I wanted the processing to accentuate the angst of the lyrics.   Glad you liked it.

Thanks for listening, folks.

There's a little guitar flourish in there that I couldn't play again if I wanted to, it was just like, whoa, that sounded cool, did I play that.     

I have been having a lot of trouble with vocals, either I get them on the first take, or I can do 30 takes and not get one I feel I can live with.   There is some kind of perishability that happens, it feels like the song either gels, or melts.  Anyone else feel that sometimes?

And yes it does feel cathartic, or a way of letting go of all this negativity.   Put it in the song and LEAVE it there.  Then I can go back to being "much happier human".

[chapperz66]

Cool song Warp.  Angsty but compelling lyrics.  The Raum verb sounds very effective.  I think I have that somewhere on my computer so I must dig it out and play with it - although I tend to use reverb sparingly.

Paul

[Mike_S]

I do love the vibe of this. I think most if not all of us can relate to the general struggle of life. I think we are all living with conflicting feelings and each of us has an ongoing personal battle of some kind or another. Life is damn hard that's for sure... but putting it into song like this does seem to help somehow. Cracking song and some great lines.

Mike

[StephenM]

Getting a Moby vibe and that's who did the soundtrack for the Bourne movie series.  Pretty dang fine!