Nothing Ever Changes

From a new thing I'm (slowly) working on. It's just guitar, piano and vocals at this point, but there's a cello part and some additional vocals to come. This is a rough working cut with scratch vocals, but I like how it's shaping up already. Hope you like it.

All the lights forgot to change one day,
and the cars that were stopped just ran out of gas.
And the birds fell from the sky like paperweights,
smashing all the windshields.

And when all the glass was swept away
there was not much left that you'd recognize:
steaming heaps of scrap metal and wasted space
as if no one even cared at all.

Everything you ever thought you
knew was proven wrong
in every single way, but it's okay

cause nothing's really changed it's all the same
it's always been this way.
You're the only thing that's changed since that day.

All the lights forgot to change one day,
and the cars that were stopped just ran out of gas.
And the birds fell from the sky like paperweights,
smashing all the windshields.

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posted by saulgoodman (4 comments total)

Sounds great so far. Piano and guitar work so great together. Puts me in the mind of Midlake at certain parts, maybe the open-chordy parts. Very nice. Look forward to hearing what you do with it.
posted by chococat at 7:28 PM on June 28, 2010

I had to get up near the beginning of the song, because the tea kettle whistled, and while I was in the kitchen I forgot what song I had put on and I thought it was Neil Young. Not easy.
posted by Corduroy at 11:39 AM on June 29, 2010

thanks guys! like i said, this one's still very much a work in progress, but i love the piano work my friend nate did, and how the piano works almost as a counterpoint to the guitars.
posted by saulgoodman at 12:36 PM on July 7, 2010

This is lovely. I wonder if you ever made any new recordings of it with the other parts?
posted by greenish at 3:35 AM on September 18, 2013