Salt Water ~circa 2004
September 10, 2014 7:50 AM
It was 2004 and I was staying with some new found friend in California, sleeping on his couch while I filled a Production Asst. for a straight-dvd-movie filming in Hollywood, Ca. He had this Digital multi-track recorder handed down to him by a friend, which he told me didn't work. It worked off a Zip drive disk, where it stored what you recorded. I believe the drive was probably failing frequently (wasn't that the case with all of those zip drives?)...
So I took out the drive, cleaned it, dusted it, put it back in and formatted a new zip disk. I hit record and gave it a go. To my surprise it worked and I was able to record like 3 different tracks before it failed again.
I took it out again and cleaned and hit a few times and tried again. My tracks showed up so I quickly bounced them down. This was the last thing ever produced with this recording device. It sucks naturally but it's a song I never recorded again or have in any form elsewhere so I thought it'd be cool to preserve it. So...here's to 10 years back!
Lyrics as best as I can decipher them:
Inhale salt water, as requested by others. In a way I would explain this but I can't, it's just something other...than, I would build this model at 1/16th the size...but the miniature boat my life is riding on, just won't comply...
And you hear the wind...sound evil...so you sing along...So you sing along...
I guess I would not accept that in saving my last place, there was something that I wanted to say to you but now, it's too late, for us to reconcile what we last tried to find, and I've given up the fight for a better life, without a better time...
And you hear the wind...sound evil...so you sing along...So you sing along...
Because of you, I'll never say I'm best friends with a girl again...
Because of you, I want all of last year to be meaningless...
Because of you, I'll never say I'm best friends with a girl again...
Because of you, I want all of last year to be meaningless...
...
It's okay, I guess, if you say, that it's gonna to be goodbye today.
That's alright if we comply, that it's gonna to be all for tonight...
So I took out the drive, cleaned it, dusted it, put it back in and formatted a new zip disk. I hit record and gave it a go. To my surprise it worked and I was able to record like 3 different tracks before it failed again.
I took it out again and cleaned and hit a few times and tried again. My tracks showed up so I quickly bounced them down. This was the last thing ever produced with this recording device. It sucks naturally but it's a song I never recorded again or have in any form elsewhere so I thought it'd be cool to preserve it. So...here's to 10 years back!
Lyrics as best as I can decipher them:
Inhale salt water, as requested by others. In a way I would explain this but I can't, it's just something other...than, I would build this model at 1/16th the size...but the miniature boat my life is riding on, just won't comply...
And you hear the wind...sound evil...so you sing along...So you sing along...
I guess I would not accept that in saving my last place, there was something that I wanted to say to you but now, it's too late, for us to reconcile what we last tried to find, and I've given up the fight for a better life, without a better time...
And you hear the wind...sound evil...so you sing along...So you sing along...
Because of you, I'll never say I'm best friends with a girl again...
Because of you, I want all of last year to be meaningless...
Because of you, I'll never say I'm best friends with a girl again...
Because of you, I want all of last year to be meaningless...
...
It's okay, I guess, if you say, that it's gonna to be goodbye today.
That's alright if we comply, that it's gonna to be all for tonight...
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