Ballad of Good Intentions (Patreon)

A few years ago I covered the acapella song "The Ballad of David Icke" by Clem Snide with a full-band arrangement, and this song was an attempt to write something new with a similar feel to that cover. I like the instrumental part at the end of this, and there's a few sections that use a sample from Yoshi's Island (lol) but it's so decontextualized it's hard to tell. The vocals are at the bottom of my range so they feel pretty strained as a result, these days I'm trying to be conscientious about avoiding that, which is one reason I'm sort of "over it" with this song.

BALLAD OF GOOD INTENTIONS

the road ahead rewinds

just as freedom's last bell chimes

light frost on city streetlights

a permanent design

a devastating haze

signals centuries of rain

all best and worst intentions

washed in the scent of sage

roads ahead rewind

just as freedom's last bell chimes

those ghosts of good intentions

lie sleeping in your mind

the only ones who stayed

flowing into unmarked graves

reciting history's pages

in perfect paraphrase

roads ahead rewind

just as freedom's last bell chimes

those ghosts of good intentions

still sleeping in your mind