Understand

mp3

Notes: Most of this was recorded at my studio/home in Oakland. It had a really lame sounding scratch piano track, so I replaced that with the grand piano at CCRMA, mic'd with two Audio-Technica AT-4049's in a stereo pair about two feet apart, head height, just inside the edge of the piano.

I compressed the pianos in the mix pretty heavily (for me - 3:1) with the Behringer's on board compressor.

The chunky synthypianoy thing (dun dun dun dun - the first instrument you hear) was done by running that lame piano patch from a casio CT770 (a toy really) through a splitter to two guitar amps, mic'd with SM57s and recorded live.

To get the Ardour tracks in the studio, I simply bundled the session with qbundle, opened it at CCRMA, exported each track with "file, export session", chose the proper track, and exported as 48KhZ 24bit wav files, then imported to ProTools over the CCRMA network. When I was done with the piano, I used ProTool's "bounce to disk" feature, bouncing only the piano tracks as 48KhZ aif files. I actually find that Ardour is much more flexible when it comes to importing and exporting.

I feel like this tune needs something. What does it need? Fancier drums? BT style editing when I'm holding those naked notes sounding like I pulled my pants down and showed you my 1 inch weenie? If you have a clue email me! :)


Lyrics:

Time is of the essence now
you're gonna come home too late
and find I haven't been around
so make me worry make my cry or make me lay me down
I don't care as long as no one thinks I'm missin
and wear your costume
I don't care 'cause I'll still know your name
and everybody you been kissin
but I guess it's not too late to make amends
and maybe we can still be friend

just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin
just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin

It ain't like there's a reason
for anyone to care
but everywhere I go you're always there
in my chest my lungs my breath my very corazon
everything that ever made me scared
you wear your black coat on the clock
and never give a second thought
to looming like a worry on my stair
but I know you and you know me
and we ain't gettin nowhere
fightin like a couple rabid dogs
so why don't we just walk away
pretend this never happened
we'll probably both sleep better anyway

I don't wanna come with you where you're goin
just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin
just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin

say Charon, Charon
I don't need to know
anything about the place you're about to go
I been down to the deep too many times
one of these bull-headed charity creeps in a key lime
suit got my wonderin where you are
lurkin in a pocket of a hospital corridor
too much ratcheting wrong headed wrath
got me hatin the very thing I need to understand
to find the right path
breath on a death stick
suckin the lipstick
grin til the grim dick swallows a lick
tick tock go the wall clock
look at the time doc
guess I really better be goin
wouldn't wanna be late
for the date that I got with my fate
excuse me while I swallow the bait

I don't wanna come with you where you're goin
just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin
just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin

I don't wanna come with you where you're goin
just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin
just as long as you understand
I don't wanna come with you where you're goin