Try Not To Look Down by Oldrottenhead

[Oldrottenhead]

I wrote this last night on my acoustic guitar, however when I had time for recording today, it became a bit of a struggle. I was out in my hut and the noise from the rain made it too difficult to record an unplugged acoustic. So i plugged in my tele. Never used a drum or click track, so it is a completely different beast from what i had intended last night. I might try and redo this at somepoint. but hey!

It is what it is.

The future's coming faster
Last week's a lifetime ago
There's no time to take it in
No room to see the view
We hurtle through the stardust
There is no standing still
Balanced on a knife edge
Try not to look down
Try not to look down
We climbed out of the sea
Then walked upon the land
Disappeared into the trees
Then burned the forest down
Survived the floods the wrath of gods
Then took wing to air
Survival of the fittest
Try not to look down
Try not to look down
We dip our toes in outer space
And venture further still
There's no more future in this place
We've scraped it inside out
So on we go into the now
There's nothing left to burn
On into oblivion
Try not to look down
Try not to look down

 

Try Not To Look Down

w/m
by
Oldrottenhead
HB Bass Guitar
Fender Telecaster
Iphone soft synths
Vocals

[StephenM]

don't you dare touch this.

gem

[hardlock]

I like it! Very soothing ride as is. Highly enjoyable listen!

[Mike_S]

Bloody marvellous. I love it. It cuts right to the bone, a wake up call that the whole world needs.

Apart from the message though you get lost in that beautiful music and gentle strumming.

Mike

[SE]

This is a terrific recording very emotional with great jangly guitar and terrific bass and the obviously great ORH vocal.

[Blooby]

Damn, that's moody. I especially liked the intermittent mystical keyboard pad.

Blooby

[karl1171]

I really like the way its turned out, it sounds great. Wonderful atmosphere and production, very Eno-esque!

[kenny mac]

Lovely  ambiance there James.
I thought I commented on this previously.
There so much stuff going on the site it's difficult to keep track.
Lovely  performance.
The lyrics are pretty dark bit strangly accurate in the present climate.

[SE]

Back for some more, ambient coolnes😎

[Geir]

Beautiful....

This should be the end credits song on an open ending sci-fi movie. With camera fixating on the earth slowly disappearing into the distance