Strange Days (From old Demo Tape)
Happy Friday Anomalies.
Today is the end of an old chapter and tomorrow, the start of a new one. We do the final walk-through in our old place and turn the keys in tomorrow. My heart feels strange. To have lived some place for almost twelve years and start again -- I guess I knew this day would come but it's another thing to actually be here. I shot footage of the process and will be putting it together for something to post later. Currently processing all of the emotions and feelings.
Strange Days is a straight-up tape recording (hissy as hell FYI) of a demo I recorded later in college at my uncle's house in Palmdale. (SooJaz, you were totally there with us!) The drums make me chuckle when I hear them but the idea is there. My uncle helped with those because I didn't know how to program beats at that time. I was experimenting with changing time signatures throughout a song just to see if I could actually write something musically and sing to it.
My mom heard Strange Days a couple of months ago and said it had a jazzy feel to it. She said I should record it again. We'll see...
Welcome June.
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Strange Days
Used to it, used to playing
Forever did we exist, simple and plain
Used to you, I was used to you
Used to me, hey, used to me
Hold me down before I fly away
Not lost, not found, it's a strange day
Abused by it, abused till insane
And ever did I insist on taking all the blame
Abused by you, I was used to you
Abusing me, hey, abusing me
Hold me down before I fly away
Not lost, not found, these are the strangest days
These are strange days
Lost and alone I wonder through a crowded street
Suffice it to say I'm asunder
Your invasion of my mind is only temporary
Not a through street, not an exit I can find
Do I dance, do I laugh, do I pray
For a sound, for a peace, for a way
To release this nomadic, roaming state of self from you
I can't seem to find a way to
Hold me down before I fly away
Not lost, not found, these are the strangest days
Hold me down before I fly away
Not lost, not found, it’s a strange day