demo no 78: change (Patreon)

SDC! Happy Sunday. A wild (slightly late) demo appeared..

This demo marks my first attempt at recording & tracking DRUMS. I’ll be honest - it was a roast. So many mistakes made, right from the start. But what is the secret demo club if not a journal of my mistakes and happy accidents, an archive of snapshots of where I was at at that very moment in time.. musically, lyrically, skill-wise.. everything. So I’m not totally happy with the mix here - particularly the drums - but I understand that’s not the point. Take it for what it is and hopefully we can chart some progress the few next times I get on the kit. :)

Special mention too to SDC veteran Wouter who kindly spent an hour of his Sunday on zoom with me today helping me out of the pits of mix-hell. I am infinitely grateful for his ears and his kindness.

So here we go - a song called ‘Change’ I cobbled together this month - and it’s about exactly that. I feel a lot of change brewing in my life right now and I am truly allergic to it. I know it’s good, I know it’s necessary.. I just get comfy with where I’m at and my body rejects it. So this song is some musings on that.. me trying to get my head around it and maybe even help my friends get their heads around it, too.

Hope you like! As always you can stream the song here on Patreon (desktop or mobile app - where u can save offline) or download the attached mp3 for keepsies.

Xxx og xxx

Lyrics:

I don’t know anything anymore lately

Look at the world through the eyes of a baby

Got no space in my life for bullshit

You really gotta earn your place within it

Driving forwards from the back seat

Hope for the best cause you know I can’t see

Feels like all the days are dragging

Maybe that isn’t such a bad thing

and I, god I guess I just live a very different life

Than I thought I would

We do a lot of sitting round hanging out

We do a lot of saying things out loud

You guys are my best friends

Just the other night you said

it’s true

there’s nothing I can do

people change

no point trying to fight it

drown it out

trying to get my head around

all this change

lately it’s been all getting too much

you and your family lost touch

all I can do is be around

show you all the good things you have now

cause suddenly we’re not kids

we’re putting up boundaries and shit

moving on, cutting ties

took so long to realise

it’s true

there’s nothing I can do

people change

no point trying to fight it

come to my house

trying to get your head around

all this change