Adventure Thing #1 - "Punch Drunk Destiny" Acoustic Demo (Patreon)

Well, I am humbled and thrilled to report that as of the first official week of the adventure, we are over $25k and officially making the album as well as one music video! Now, on to our first Adventure Thing: an Acoustic Demo of a new song written for the album.

These Acoustic Demos are literally me (Brian) with a guitar and an iPhone, getting the song down in a Voice Memo to send out to the rest of the band in its initial, completely raw form, usually the day I finish writing it.

From this initial Acoustic Demo, we will work up what we call a 'Band Scratch', meaning we work on arrangements and musical ideas for a song in band practice, usually ending in a very lo-fi recording of a practice session (often also an iPhone Voice Memo). We'll likely share some of these as well as the adventure progresses, though I warn you they are very much scratch tracks - our first rough ideas of where a track is going.

After this comes a 'Full Scratch', which is more refined and is typically what we will use as a guide track to start laying down actual instrument recordings in the studio. When all the real instruments are tracked, we have a 'Rough', which then goes through mixing to become a 'Semi-Final Mix', and finally goes through mastering to become a 'Final Master'.

As you can see we've got a long road ahead of us on this adventure! But it all begins here, at the Acoustic Demo.  

So, without further ado, the first official Adventure Thing is an Acoustic Demo of a new song called "Punch Drunk Destiny". We hope you like it, and we hope you'll like the way it evolves through all of the stages above as the adventure progresses!

Lyrics

In a former life
In a former place
Think I knew her smile
I remember her face
Maybe that's why I'm a mess
Whenever she wears that dress

It's like a no look right hook dropping me down
And though I stand up I'm stuck stumbling around

Chorus:
No, She don't know what she does to me
Yes, I confess that I'm blind
I can't deny I was born to be
A martyr for love
It's just a part of my punch drunk destiny

So I take the hit
And I take the pain
But I’m not done yet
And it hits me again
Maybe I’ll never know why
It’s just that look in her eyes

It’s like a long lost left cross out of the blue
And when it hits me I see stars and the moon

Chorus:
No, She don't know what she does to me
Yes, I confess that I'm blind
I can't deny I was born to be
A martyr for love
It's just a part of my punch drunk destiny

Oh, don't put it on me
Blame it on my punch drunk destiny
No chance I'm gonna leave
I'm just a sucker with a punch drunk destiny

It’s like a door shut uppercut taking me out
And maybe this time now I’m down for the count

Chorus:
No, She don't know what she does to me
Yes, I confess that I'm blind
I can't deny I was born to be
A martyr for love
It's just a part of my punch drunk destiny

Oh don't put it on me
Blame it on my punch drunk destiny
No chance I'm gonna leave
I'm just a sucker with a punch drunk destiny