Back to back, we stood
weapons bristling.
We fought them off
as best as we could.
Best as we could.
But, eventually, they got to you.
But, eventually, they'll get to me.
They'll get to me.

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Jean Luc Picard
Captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise
Captain Jean Luc Picard
Not dead.

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Driving in my car.
Going to the beach.
My girl says it's so hot outside
So we roll up the windows, put on the air conditioning
I can't talk like this for much longer
We arrive at the beach.
We go outside and see.

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It must be
so hard to be
an elephant
with all that weight,
with all that weight
on your shoulders.

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I notice you still use this blender I bought for you.
You still use the same laundry soap I do.
You still cook like a professional.
You still look more beautiful every day.
And I still love you as much as ever.

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It's too late
or too early
to be circling
back.
Though the loops
get longer,
they lead to
the same place.
One day,
this will
break.

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Don't go.
I was imagining this song with a cello.
And I was imagining a song with a cello.
I was imagining me with you.
I
was imagining
that we were old
by the ocean so far from here
like a dream I can never find.
Don't go.
Don't leave me here.
Don't go so soon.
Don't go.
Don't go.

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I don't care
if this is how it's supposed to be
I just can't do it.

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The three nail holes
in the bathroom wall
remind me each day.

You move farther away.
How nothing is as permanent as it seems.

Like prints
or holes
or heartbreak.

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If I could, I'd buy you a pug dog
just to hear you laugh.

It's dark outside and tiny stars
in city lights are so dim tonight.

If you'd have me, we'd go on adventures.
Explore the world with reckless abandon.

It's dark outside and tiny stars
in city lights are so dim tonight.

If you'd let me, I'd take care of you
until we're old and live by the ocean.

While it's dark outside it will get light if I wait long enough.

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I always wondered how
Sonny got on when Cher left.
She took everything
with her.
He was alone
although he loved her.
alone.
I always knew that when he died she'd be there.
She spoke at his funeral through thinly veiled tears.
Through thinly veiled tears, she spoke.

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At the grocery store
you bought me
a plastic dinosaur.
I never got you anything as great as a plastic Triceratops
and I guess that's why you left.
I guess.
You left.

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The thing
about Discovery
is that you usually find
something good.

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I believe
but I'll be leaving.
There's something I...
something I must do.
I know it's hard
but I still love you
maybe.

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Thank you for letting me use your keyboard.
For a present, I made you this horrible song
with all of the techno tricks I could think of using.
For example, let me check out this part I've got for you.
I mean, it really, really sucks.
Check out the bells, the flutey thing, and the massive bass with just a little drum beats every once in a while.
Ooh, listen to this.

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I'm fighting an unwinnable war
against an imaginary foe
for a cause everyone has forgotten
but I keep on fighting
- I keep on dying -
because I don't know what else to do.

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If this is
a war, it's
Vietnam
and you are
decidedly
a Communist.
I surrender.
I surrender.

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C'mon Kid, c'mon
C'mon Kid, c'mon
yeah
C'mon Kid, c'mon
show us what you can do
C'mon Kid, c'mon

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It seems like you're doing better these days
even though things are falling apart
I know it's brutal working minimum wage
It's like you're finished before you start

Things got ugly for a while back there
I know I thought that you wouldn't pull through
Late at night when the phone would ring
There's no telling what you would do

Sometimes we'd yell and mad as hell
Sometimes we'd act like we didn't care
Some of our love was just suffocating
It left you turning blue and gasping for air

C'mon kid, c'mon, it's one foot and then the other
Everybody needs a hand sometimes everybody needs a brother
C'mon kid, c'mon, I'm reaching out to you
Get out of bed, kid face the world, and show us what you can do

I'm sorry I was always casting stones
Like my glass house couldn't be smashed
I spent as many night as wild as a lion
I was lucky that I never crashed

Look, I've never really been no angel
I see a lot of myself in you
This little town can feel a lot like prison
And angry young men always have something to prove
(yeah we always got something to prove)

C'mon kid, c'mon, it's one foot and then the other
Everybody needs a hand sometimes everybody needs a brother
C'mon kid, c'mon, I'm reaching out to you
Get out of bed, kid face the world, and show us what you can do

I know you ended up with bills to pay
I know she promised you that she would stay
I know they told you he died for your sins
And he's the only way

I know it caught you by surprise
I got a call that you almost died
Second chances are a crime to waste
So don't let time decide, don't let time decide (Heeeeey)

C'mon kid, c'mon, it's one foot and then the other
Everybody needs a hand sometimes everybody needs a brother
C'mon kid, c'mon, I'm reaching out to you
Get out of bed, kid face the world, and show us what you can do

C'mon kid, c'mon
C'mon kid, c'mon
(yeeaaah yeaaah)

C'mon kid, c'mon
c'mon kid, c'mon
And show us what you can do
C'mon kid, c'mon

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Through myself
on the floor.
Chasing time
at the door.
Half-past nine.
Self-control.
Lace your heart
on the door.

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Well I woke up to the sound of silence and guns
were cutting like knives in a fist fight
And I found you with a bottle of wine
your head in the curtains and heart like the 4th of July

You swore and said we are not
we are not shining stars
This i know
cause i never said we are

Though I've never been through hell like that
I've closed enough windows to know you can never look back

If you're lost and alone, or you're sinkin like a stone
Carry on
May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground
Carry on
Carry on carry on

So I met up with some friends at the edge of the night
at a bar off 75
And we talked and talked about how our parents will die
All our neighbors and wives

But i'd like to think
I can cheat it all
to make up for the times i've been cheated on
And it's nice to know
when i was left for dead
I was found and I know not these streets
I am not the ghost you want to be

If you're lost and alone, or you're sinkin like a stone
Carry on
May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground
Carry on

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

My head is on fire, but my legs they're fine
Cause after all, they are mine
Lay your clothes down on the floor, close the door, hold the phone
show me how, no one's ever gonna stop us now

Cause we are, we are shining stars
We are invincible, we are who we are
On our darkest day, when we're miles away
Sun will come, we will find our way home

If you're lost and alone, or you're sinkin like a stone
Carry on
May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground
Carry on
Carry on carry on
Carry on carry on

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This appears to be a recreation of the Friskies Adventureland commercial using the Nord rhodes and organ tones, a bunch of Garage Band percussion, a Garage Band trumpet section, and some clapping. I don't know why I do the things I do, honestly. At least I didn't put the vocals over the top!

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Oh, no malice does exist in these words I am now writing
Although one might catch the faintest glance at sorrow.
I'm but trying hard to grasp all these fragments as they're passing,
Piece the puzzle now before the trail grows cold.

And I'm not asking for the answers
In mathematical equations to be culled and calculated by unbiased hands,
For at truth I am so stricken
And I care only to forever dance
Which proves I am the better broken half;
Oh and I am but the bitter better half.

And my callous speculations
They leave no room for calm or reason,
I have placed myself in altars that are hollow.
So adept at finding weakness,
I smell fear and close my fists,
Unaware the stench I'm smelling is my own.
So yeah, you left me and I'm bitter,
And my pride is shocked and raw,
For I believe I will be changing roads no more.
I know that life is full of dead ends
But I saw us as a highway
Ever stretching on from coast to golden coast.
Oh, but now instead I'm singin'

Go west, Emily,
Grab your boots and find yourself somewhere,
I'll find another lover in the east.
I said go west, Emily,
Yeah, you know you've got my blessing
But you can't expect these eyes of mine to watch you leave.

So with no malice I'll begin just once more to tell our story,
Though the ending I may never hope to know.
You were a sweet and sound companion
Though our paths led us apart,
And I may never sleep so soundly as I did while in your arms.
Now all I ask is you remember who you loved and who you lost,
Please don't bury me in silence
Or in blackest shroud of thought.
Don't pretend that what we had was any less than what it was,
For I will not soon be forgetting the reasons
Why we fought so hard to make it work.

But go west, Emily,
Grab your boots and find yourself somewhere,
I'll find another lover in the east.
Well I said go west, Emily,
Yeah, you know you've got my blessing
But you can't expect these eyes of mine to watch you

But go west, Emily,
Grab your boots and find yourself somewhere,
I'll find another lover in the east.
Well I said go west, Emily,
Yeah, you know you've got my blessing
But you can't expect these eyes of mine to watch you leave.

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In my bedroom, in my bedroom, in my bedroom
I seek a foreign night. Aren't we the same, you and I, all our love gathers the storm?
Or should we share a brain, in our minds, all our love follows the road.
I won't beg you, I won't beg you, I won't beg you, not with certain words.

Helen your eyes are frozen in my brain
Helen you are a gone world, where I remain.

In my bedroom, in my bedroom, in my bedroom

I seek a foreign light. Aren't we the same you and I, all our love gathers the storm.
Or should we share a brain in our minds, all our love follows the road.
I won't beg you, I won't beg you, I won't beg you, not with certain words.

Helen your eyes are frozen in my brain
Helen you are lost world where I remain.

And all my dreams move away, I let them escape
And all my dreams move away, I let them escape.

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I've been trying to do it right
I've been living the lonely life
I've been sleeping here instead
I've been sleeping in my bed
I've been sleeping in my bed

So show me family
And all the blood that I will bleed
I don't know where I belong
I don't know where I went wrong
But I can write a song.

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweet

I don't think you're right for him
Think of what it might've been if you
Took a bus to Chinatown
I'd be standing on Canal...and Bowery
And she'd be standing next to me

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart

And love, we need it now
Let's hope for some
Cuz oh, we're bleeding out

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweet

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I didn't record vocals but here's the lyrics if you want to try to sing along?

Love of mine, someday you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
I held my tongue as she told me
"Son, fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
But it's nothing to cry about
'Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

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Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children

I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I

Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
I have seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen it

I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both

Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw it in the fire
Throw it in the fire
Throw it on the

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening

Mobiles squerking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money run
Take the money run
Take the money

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

The first of the children

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I eat with these crooked teeth
Tomato soup and grilled cheese
But you already know that
Cause you used to dine with me
Do you remember?

I listen to my same old CDs
New Order and Morrissey
But you already know that
Cause you used to ride with me

I thought I'd be singing a different tune by now
But this song about you keeps coming out

I sleep in these dirty sheets
A blanket between my bony knees
But you already know that
Cause you used to crawl in bed with me
In the morning, before work

Put your hands on my back
Kiss the back of my neck

I thought I'd be singing a different tune by now
But this song about you keeps coming out
I hoped to be singing to someone new by now
But this song's about you

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I didn't record vocals but here's the lyrics if you want to try to sing along?

One's of them off her food
And the other's off his head
And both of them are off down the boozer
To drink a toast
To the one that he hates most
And she says there are no winner, only losers

Well if there are no winners
Then what is this he thinks
As he watches her complete a lap of honour
And he sits in the stands
With his head in his hands
And he thinks of all the things
He'd like to bring down upon her

Revenge will bring cold comfort in this darkest hour
As the jukebox says 'It's All Over Now'
And he stands and he screams
What have I done wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb

In public he's such a man
He's punching at the walls with his bare ad bloody hands
He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy
But at home he sits alone and he cries like a baby
He holds your letters but he can't read them
As he fights this loneliness you call freedom
You said this would happen and you were not wrong
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb

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A cripple walks amongst you, all you tired human beings.
He's got all the things a cripple has not, two working arms and legs.
And vital parts fall from his system and dissolve in Scottish rain.
Vitally, he doesn't miss them; he's too fucked up to care.

Well is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same.
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg.
On his last leg.

Well I crippled your heart a hundred times and still can't work out why.
You see, I've got this disease I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life.
Well this is how we do things now, yeah this is how the modern stay scared.
So I cut out all the good stuff, yeah I cut off my foot to spite my leg.

Well is that you in front of me
coming back for even more of exactly the same?
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg.
Well I am ill but I'm not dead
and I don't know which of those I prefer.
Because that limb which I have lost,
well, it was the only thing holding me up.
Holding me up.

Well I'm lying on the ground now and you're walking through the only door.
Well I have lost my eyesight like I said I would
but I still know.

And that is you in front of me
and you are back for even more of exactly the same?
Well are you a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg?
And you're not ill and I'm not dead,
doesn't that make us the perfect pair?
Just you and me, we'll start again
and you can tell me all about what you did today.
What you did today.

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I didn't record vocals but here's the lyrics if you want to try to sing along?

We speak in the store
I'm a sensitive bore
you seem markedly more
and I'm oozing suprise.

But it's late in the day
and you're well on your way
what was golden went gray
and I'm suddenly shy.

And the gathering floozies
afford to be choosy
and all sneezing darkly
in the dimming divide.

I have read the right books
to interpret your looks
you were knocking me down
with the palm of your eye.

Go Na na na na ....

This was unlike the story
it was written to be
I was riding its back
when it used to ride me.

And we were galloping manic
to the mouth of the source
we were swallowing panic
in the face of its force.

And I am blue, I am blue, and unwell,
made me bolt like a horse.

ooh, Na na na na na na na na na na

Now it's done.
Watch it go.
You've changed some.
Water run from the snow.

Am I so dear?
Do I run rare?
And you've changed some:
peach, plum, pear.

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Come along with me now cause there are things I've been
Dying to tell you
The best of the worst things that you never
Needed to know

This is the kind of comedy where no one's
Laughing, cause it's hard to
I'm a punch line who's punch-drunk
With my fist in a broken mirror

There's a party nearby
I can hear
Laughter in the distance and it all comes clear
Sounds to simple

Love is the only answer
Everything else is just a train wreck
I'm gonna stay up all night every night for the rest of my life
'Til

The lines around my eyes grow deeper and more defined
You might
Ask me aren't you dead inside and so damn tired
I'll say I have no

Idea I'm not sleeping until after the dying is over
I can hear laughter
In the distance and it all comes clear
Sounds to simple

Love is the
Only answer
When love's a train wreck you're a mistake

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If I keep wandering around this house, I'll die.
If I keep walking around this town, I'll die.
So I fall or find something that lifts
And puts all the blood back into my veins.
If I keep driving down this street, I'll die.
If I keep talking about this mess, I'll die.
So I fall or find something that lifts
And puts all of the love back into my veins.

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There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hands of a worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a Union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses' way, sir

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a Union

Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackies out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
There is power in a Union

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand
There is power in a Union

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You know the lyrics to this one.

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the atlantic was born today and i'll tell you how:
the clouds above opened up and let it out.
i was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
when the water filled every hole.
and thousands upon thousands made an ocean,
making islands where no island should go.

oh no.

those people were overjoyed; they took to their boats.
i thought it less like a lake and more like a moat.
the rhythm of my footsteps crossing flood lands to your door have been
silenced forever more.
the distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
it seems farther than ever before

oh no.
i need you so much closer.
so come on.

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I spend most every night
wondering how you've been.

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"You'll get it right sometime. You will."
I tell myself that everyday.
"You don't need to latch on to anything.
You'll just end up back here
In your little limbo scene."
It's repetitious and exhausting.
I might need some therapy;
Anything to keep me in check through the day.

"Don't think about your lover.
You're already steady shaking."
I might need a sedative,
But I hate the taste of medicine.
"You just need to let her go."
These pills shaking in my hand
Just make me feel defeated,
Like I'm not able to just let her go a-way.

I hate this place but I love these chords.
"An empty fate just means an even score."
And the pain this morning... It filled my head.
It's Jameson. It means that I'm not dead.

And I just can't seem to get away
There's no such thing as escape,
Even with the sedatives
You're always in the same state,
Clutching to a limbo scene.
You're never changing anything,
You just stop the shaking.
And it's constantly repeated through the days.
through the days.

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My arms miss you
My hands miss you
The stars sing
I’ve got their song in my head
I dont...

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A straight up romp around the MIDI controller with some really noodley parts and even some messing with the note bending thingy. (2009)

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Fake Rhodes gets testy and puts some grrrr in the mix. (2009)

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A little piano jam made in 2011. Not sure who I visited in the hospital then but this song doesn't seem terribly sad about it?

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Slow Rhodes chords lead into arpeggios and then an interesting resolve at the end. (2008)

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A long and sleepy improvised song that wanders around tempo and flirts with dissonance until breaking apart and then finding joy in the end. (2009)

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Guess what chords get played around with in this little instrumental? (2009)

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Garage Band MIDI drums and guitar and Nord clavichord, maybe? A fun little bluesy/80's hair metal thing for a rally video I think? (2011)

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It really feels like I stole this but I have the Garage Band file right here so I must have made it somehow. A little orchestral introduction to a rally video starring MIDI timpani, cello, and flute. (2010)

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Short little intro tune for rally videos. Combo of different Garage Band synths. (2009)

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Short little intro tune for rally videos. Combo of different Garage Band synths and beats. (2009)

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A play with distortion and a little minor key. (2010)

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A Rhodes song that was supposed to have a drum loop called "Live Edgy Drums" but they're lost now. Kind of like this song loses the plot after the bridge. Also, there's some weird dissonance which may be just wrong notes or something wrong with that Rhodes I used to have. (2009)

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A jaunty and snappy little intro to a podcast about filmic discussion. A couple Garage Band beats and two layers of Nord keyboard noodling. (2009)

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I don't know, if you listen to this song long enough you might start to think that maybe everything will not be okay. (2009)

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A ridiculous sloppy mishmash of Garage Band synths and a techno-ish beat with some noodley Rhodes over the top. Kind of a pop song, I guess? (2009)

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This very long improv session has a number of themes that wander in and out in strange ways but it does seem like kind of a cohesive set of ideas in the end, if you think about it. Stick around for the volume knob tricks! (2010)

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I'm meanest to the longest songs by calling them "garbage." They just take up so much space and time by meandering all around the keyboard like they're trying to use all the notes or something! (2009)

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I think I was going to make some kind of podcast or video series about Hulu Tags? That's a vague memory I have. Here's a couple Garage Band synths and a "Vintage Funk Kit" beat that would serve as the outro. (2009)

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A gentle little reverie on how nice having a piano to play is. (2009)

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Yet another fully improvised long instrumental for sad guys. Some interesting explorations of melody after a bit of the old "big chords and big space" ethos and then it gets weird about halfway through and the third act is a real surprise. (2009)

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It doesn't seem like what is impending is too terrible. There's a little bit of a worry during the bridge but the future looks okay in the end. (2010)

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I made a DVD for my Grandma with a cat picture slideshow and a bunch of cat videos. It needed a menu theme song, so here's two layers of Nord doing their best, gentle kitty theme song. (2010)

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You ever go over to a partner's house and just find an unmelted chocolate bar in their microwave? It's pretty cute. (2009)

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An unusually upbeat and sustain-drenched improvised tune, maybe about a new computer? Not a bad little melody and an outro you may get a kick out of? (2007)

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A nice and warm little song with a cool chord progression and only like one or two mistakes. (2008)

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A real Rhodes exploration of sustain and distortion connected to some frustration, I'm sure. It resolves in the end, though. (2008)

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Who am I, some kind of Gershwin who actually can't play piano and is really kind getting frustrated with that inability? (2012)

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This one is labeled as a pop song but really is just a MIDI electric piano doing some chords and melodies. (2007)

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Imagine a rainy Sunday, probably in the 70's. Yep, you got it. (2007)

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Perhaps a slightly more triumphant improvised Rhodes tune than usual? A couple bloopers included but a decent little chunk of sound, otherwise. (2010)

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I don't know what kind of thing this was intro'ing but it doesn't seem that silly. GarageBand orchestral flutes and strings with a little timpani roll in. There's also some waves if you listen very closely. (2012)

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I think I may have made some intro music for a slidshow about a trip to the American Southwest? Four tracks of Nord organ and rhodes and GarageBand nature sounds and orchestra percussion. Southwest! (2014)

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Woah. What if four GarageBand tracks (Hammer Synth Bass, Shimmering Flute, Fiji Afterglow, and Blissful Stepper) all played a different song at the same time? Chaos! (2014)

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If you create a DVD with some classic cartoons on it for your friend's kid, you've gotta make a DVD menu song. The drum track (Rock Steady Beat 01) is missing but the GarageBand Big Electric Lead, Future Flute and Martian Lounge instruments hold their own wwithout it, I think. (2014)

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This is bananas. Four tracks of chaos. There's a manually played MIDI drum beat, Garage Band's Blissful Stepper is going bonkers, something called Fifth Moon doing... something, and then a kinda badly improved Rhodes track over the top. Weird. (2014)

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I had a Rhodes mkI, now I don't. This is probably my last recording with it. Could also be the Nord that replaced it, though, the labels make it unclear. (2009)

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I like the tapping count-in on this one. Otherwise it is just a rhythmic Rhodes rollicking around. (2008)

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I don't think I used this as my voice greeting as it is too upbeat, even though it ends in big, dramatic chords. (2008)

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This is my actual voicemail outgoing message. People hate it. (2008)

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Sure this jam has got a couple mistakes, who cares? Yeah, it goes a bit too long, who cares? Maybe it isn't even original or interesting, who cares? (2010)

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A long exploration of a set of chords that are sort of hopeful sounding. Like maybe they could be something one day. (2009)

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A set of sad chords that appear to be inspired by David Bazan's "Backwoods Nation"? This one is composed on a MIDI keyboard and looped. (2008)

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Messin' around with some high notes on the Rhodes. Starts off pretty tight, ends up pretty loose. (2009)

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Back to our old friend Esus2. Lots of noodley high notes this time! (2009)

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This first little bit of this jam would become "Do You See The Elephant In The Corner?" and the rest is just a chaotic mess around. (2009)

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A little hint of a riff with some lightness to it. (2009)

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Looks like I tried to get familiar with the key of D#. Looks like I didn't really get the hang of it, though. (2009)

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You know, this is a good question? How many are there? How many didn't get recorded? (2009)

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Tomorrow I could wake up
and not think about all the things I miss
That's a really terrible line and I think it sucks [unintelligible]
I...
Tomorrow..
You...
Tomorrow..
You...

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A little mess around on a couple dark chords. Hella distorted MIDI electric piano. (2008)

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A peppy experiment in a left-hand rhythm underpinning some bright right hand chords and then some weirdness at the end. Hella distorted MIDI electric piano. (2008)

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Arpeggios on the real Rhodes and some big chords at the end. (2008)

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What would happen if you stacked three Rhodes riffs of different lenghts on top of each other and then played a fourth theme underneath? Well, in this case, an almost unlistenable mess. (2008)

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A slow and sad improvisation of chords, probably on the Nord. It picks up a little near the end. (2011)

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There's not really anything Minus The Bear-y about this idea, just a string of sad chords like the rest. (2008)

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Smokey Clav and Electronic Drum Beat 02 do a little duet with a couple variations. (2022? Probably not.)

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A little sad MIDI electric piano noodling. (2008.)

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A short Rhodes jam on some faster-than-usual chords. Kinda guitar rock-y. (2009.)

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A quick exploration of a right-hand theme that sort of works out. (2009.)

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A few minutes of just messing with settings on the new Nord I got. (2010.)

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Okay, at this point I'm getting annoyed with myself for making so many of these and needing to put them on here for some reason. These big, spaced out chords have been taking up like three days of my life. We get it, man, you're sad and bad at piano! (2010.)

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A cascading stack of old Rhodes chords that tumbles to an ignominus conclusion. (2010.)

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Pretty similar to a lot of things that feel finished but this one never quite seems to come together. (2010.)

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I guess this is my interpretation of a pop song played on MIDI electric piano. Kind of upbeat, I suppose but not terribly poppy. (2009.)

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Experiment with MIDI drums (played on the keyboard, I think) and some Rhodes noodling. (2008.)

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Ironically, this is just MIDI Electric Piano doing a sad and slow chord progression. So no Rhodes, no anger. (2008.)

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A little comparison of the analog Rhodes vs. the virtual "Electric Piano". (2008.)

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Let's drive out to the beach.
We'll die in hell today.
You suck at everything.
Everything.
And I could give a crap
but the vocals sound pretty good.

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This little GarageBand electric piano chord progression kind of reminds me of the song from Taxi even though it is not as fast or complex or interesting. (2008)

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If I talk about this
it will be the end.

If we get off this bench
it will be the end.

If we let go of this embrace
it will be the end.

If I look back...
If I look back... (what the fuck?)
back...
it will never end.

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Three ideas: a classic two chord progression, a chorus-y thing that might go with it, and then a completely sparse and morose single-note riff, I guess. (2008)

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An interesting chord progression, modified a couple times the brought back after a break, proceeding until I apparently lose my mind. (2008)

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A fun little melody that didn't really develop any other parts during this jam. (2010)

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