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        <title><![CDATA[Welcome to Methuen Massachusetts (2015 RPM Challenge)]]></title>

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                                        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:23:24 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-25T22:23:24+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>The Thing You Fear the Most</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This song has been the biggest mess of the month.  It was the second idea I had, the first that wasn't dropped.  I have fought with it more than any other song I've ever recorded.  The drum parts have been recorded twice.  They rhythm guitars have been recorded three times.  The lead guitars have been recorded twice.  The vocals and bass are still the originals.  The three part vocal harmony has each part doubled so there are six tracks.  The lyrics are about... nothing really.  
Still, after all of that back and forth, re-recording, over and over again...
I think this is my favorite song of the month now.  Maybe.  
The guitars are all ES-335 and the amp is my old Fender, except for the harmony leads at the end.  Those used GarageBand amp simulator.
and still it’s coming
coming to find you
you hear it running
running you down
its always back there
its right behind you
never escape it
it always comes true
Good luck to you
You’ll never get away
Safe trip to you
you have a debt to pay
creeping in corners
watching you’re every move
hiding in shadows
completely disapprove
you think you lost it
but it is always there
you try to see it
but it will disappear
you can never get away from the
thing you fear the most]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This song has been the biggest mess of the month.  It was the second idea I had, the first that wasn't dropped.  I have fought with it more than any other song I've ever recorded.  The drum parts have been recorded twice.  They rhythm guitars have been recorded three times.  The lead guitars have been recorded twice.  The vocals and bass are still the originals.  The three part vocal harmony has each part doubled so there are six tracks.  The lyrics are about... nothing really.  
Still, after all of that back and forth, re-recording, over and over again...
I think this is my favorite song of the month now.  Maybe.  
The guitars are all ES-335 and the amp is my old Fender, except for the harmony leads at the end.  Those used GarageBand amp simulator.
and still it’s coming
coming to find you
you hear it running
running you down
its always back there
its right behind you
never escape it
it always comes true
Good luck to you
You’ll never get away
Safe trip to you
you have a debt to pay
creeping in corners
watching you’re every move
hiding in shadows
completely disapprove
you think you lost it
but it is always there
you try to see it
but it will disappear
you can never get away from the
thing you fear the most]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2015 05:52:43 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-14T05:52:43+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Hindsight</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[I liked this one a lot more before realizing (after all of the tracks were finished) that the guitar part is awfully similar to a Throwing Muses song from the brilliant House Tornado album.
My plan to double all rhythm guitar and vocal parts means the chorus on this song has four voices (two part harmony with each part doubled) and I really like the way it sounds. Maybe before RPM is over I’ll try quadruple tracking three part harmony. It’ll probably sound like a huge choir. Coool.
The guitars are all ES-335.
If I only knew
What I put you through
I would make it easier on you
If I could ever say
Why it feels this way
I would know just what to do
If it could all have been true
I’d have had a clue
I would never have delayed]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I liked this one a lot more before realizing (after all of the tracks were finished) that the guitar part is awfully similar to a Throwing Muses song from the brilliant House Tornado album.
My plan to double all rhythm guitar and vocal parts means the chorus on this song has four voices (two part harmony with each part doubled) and I really like the way it sounds. Maybe before RPM is over I’ll try quadruple tracking three part harmony. It’ll probably sound like a huge choir. Coool.
The guitars are all ES-335.
If I only knew
What I put you through
I would make it easier on you
If I could ever say
Why it feels this way
I would know just what to do
If it could all have been true
I’d have had a clue
I would never have delayed]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:25:49 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-18T04:25:49+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>That Time of Year</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[It only took four songs for me to start writing lyrics about being worried about finishing RPM on time. Typical.
This was originally just a few separate 8 bar phrases. Normally I’d spread them out and create some sort of song form out of them. This time though I had been listening to them without any form, just one after the other, and I got used to it and kept it. I just repeated the whole thing once and then stretched the end a bit. Not sure if I like it, but I have a feeling we’ll see something like this again before February is over.
The guitars are all ES-335.
there’s only so much time to waste
so many words to say
pressure building up on you
get it done today
clock keeps ticking
deadline coming
time is short
no more bluffing
No sense pretending you are
in it deep
Have to get moving you have
promises to keep
That time of year
Have to go through it again
Just one more time
Have to keep pusing ahead]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[It only took four songs for me to start writing lyrics about being worried about finishing RPM on time. Typical.
This was originally just a few separate 8 bar phrases. Normally I’d spread them out and create some sort of song form out of them. This time though I had been listening to them without any form, just one after the other, and I got used to it and kept it. I just repeated the whole thing once and then stretched the end a bit. Not sure if I like it, but I have a feeling we’ll see something like this again before February is over.
The guitars are all ES-335.
there’s only so much time to waste
so many words to say
pressure building up on you
get it done today
clock keeps ticking
deadline coming
time is short
no more bluffing
No sense pretending you are
in it deep
Have to get moving you have
promises to keep
That time of year
Have to go through it again
Just one more time
Have to keep pusing ahead]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 04:36:40 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-28T04:36:40+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>New Horizons</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The final RPM Challenge/FAWM song for 2015! I’m done! Garageband has this running at 66bpm in 6/8 time. It probably should be 132bpm in ¾, but you live with what you have, right? I didn’t really plan on saving this for last as it was one of the first songs that month that I thought might be decently good. It’s okay, but not much better than that. The lyrics are an ode to NASA’s New Horizons probe which will be flying past Pluto in a couple of months. I’m really looking forward to the pictures.
The guitars are all ES-335.
three billion miles in nine years
and still far to go
no eyes have ever seen
but soon you will know
a landmark in speed and distance
this thing we’ve achieved
a breakthrough on every level
and you will succeed
beyond comprehension
how far you have gone
no way to relate to it
and still you fly on
The fastest thing ever
no ship can come close
36 thousand miles per hour
and you’ll never slow]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The final RPM Challenge/FAWM song for 2015! I’m done! Garageband has this running at 66bpm in 6/8 time. It probably should be 132bpm in ¾, but you live with what you have, right? I didn’t really plan on saving this for last as it was one of the first songs that month that I thought might be decently good. It’s okay, but not much better than that. The lyrics are an ode to NASA’s New Horizons probe which will be flying past Pluto in a couple of months. I’m really looking forward to the pictures.
The guitars are all ES-335.
three billion miles in nine years
and still far to go
no eyes have ever seen
but soon you will know
a landmark in speed and distance
this thing we’ve achieved
a breakthrough on every level
and you will succeed
beyond comprehension
how far you have gone
no way to relate to it
and still you fly on
The fastest thing ever
no ship can come close
36 thousand miles per hour
and you’ll never slow]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 05:47:02 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-06T05:47:02+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Critical Mass</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The first song completed for the 2015 RPM Challenge. This is historic for me in that it’s an RPM song that used a real amplifier instead of a software simulator. It’s not my cool Marshall, it’s my Fender who once took a bath in gasoline (long story).
Not sure I’m happy with this. I’m too tired to know if the mix is any good, and I might have to re-do the rhythm guitars. Is my D string flat in the chorus?
The lyrics are meaningless. The first verse was written independent of the music, which is pretty rare for me.
The guitars are all ES-335 through a Fender Stage amp that may or may not have the slightest hint of 17 year old gasoline.
Once again I find myself here
Looking out on an empty space
Spin around there’s nothing for miles
nothing left to hold me in place
approaching critical mass
running low on gas
shatter like I’m made of glass
Let me take a pass
One more time
Let’s do this
One more time
Let’s roll
Any chance to move ahead
road blocks and danger signs
In a trap and I can’t get free
just another sign of the times]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The first song completed for the 2015 RPM Challenge. This is historic for me in that it’s an RPM song that used a real amplifier instead of a software simulator. It’s not my cool Marshall, it’s my Fender who once took a bath in gasoline (long story).
Not sure I’m happy with this. I’m too tired to know if the mix is any good, and I might have to re-do the rhythm guitars. Is my D string flat in the chorus?
The lyrics are meaningless. The first verse was written independent of the music, which is pretty rare for me.
The guitars are all ES-335 through a Fender Stage amp that may or may not have the slightest hint of 17 year old gasoline.
Once again I find myself here
Looking out on an empty space
Spin around there’s nothing for miles
nothing left to hold me in place
approaching critical mass
running low on gas
shatter like I’m made of glass
Let me take a pass
One more time
Let’s do this
One more time
Let’s roll
Any chance to move ahead
road blocks and danger signs
In a trap and I can’t get free
just another sign of the times]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:42:33 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-22T02:42:33+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Song for Charles</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[7/8 time and the song form is A-B-C-D-A. Just a goofy little attempt at not repeating sections. This is the second time this RPM I’ve done that. Sort of.
I don’t know where the idea for writing about Darwin came from, but for me when an idea comes I just have to roll with it. Even if it doesn’t work too well.
I started writing this song at about 10:00am on Saturday 2/21 and finished mixing it at about 8:30pm on Saturday 2/21. Over the course of the day I probably spent 3 hours on it. I don’t know why, but I think it’s cool to write a whole song in one day. Someday I’ll do an album in a day, but for today it’s cool to write a song in a day.
The guitars are all ES-335, and the vocals were recorded while sitting in my car in a piano store parking lot.
dont you dare deny it
dont you dare complain
everythings evolving
nothing stays the same
you dont see the changes
but they’re always there
miniscule mutations
happen everywhere
and you curse him
for his words
and you blame him
for the world
then you twist him
to your needs
and you lie to
everyone you see
its a theory
its hypothesis
its reality
words and numbers
facts and figures
add it up it tells the truth
observations
solid data
put it to world changing use]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[7/8 time and the song form is A-B-C-D-A. Just a goofy little attempt at not repeating sections. This is the second time this RPM I’ve done that. Sort of.
I don’t know where the idea for writing about Darwin came from, but for me when an idea comes I just have to roll with it. Even if it doesn’t work too well.
I started writing this song at about 10:00am on Saturday 2/21 and finished mixing it at about 8:30pm on Saturday 2/21. Over the course of the day I probably spent 3 hours on it. I don’t know why, but I think it’s cool to write a whole song in one day. Someday I’ll do an album in a day, but for today it’s cool to write a song in a day.
The guitars are all ES-335, and the vocals were recorded while sitting in my car in a piano store parking lot.
dont you dare deny it
dont you dare complain
everythings evolving
nothing stays the same
you dont see the changes
but they’re always there
miniscule mutations
happen everywhere
and you curse him
for his words
and you blame him
for the world
then you twist him
to your needs
and you lie to
everyone you see
its a theory
its hypothesis
its reality
words and numbers
facts and figures
add it up it tells the truth
observations
solid data
put it to world changing use]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:57:04 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-20T13:57:04+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>The Ghost in 314</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[RPM Challenge song #6. Look at me, half way there!
Everything I had for the month was really slow until this fell into my lap. I sort of forced it, but it was fun to record.
The lyrics are a ghost story about a spirit that haunts the Mt Washington hotel. I included a link to the blog post that inspired the song.
All the guitars are ES-335.
The Ghost in 314
They built a deterrent
in the number of steps
each stairway is different
They don’t know what to expect
she knew her way ‘round
and they couldn’t fool her
so after she passed on
she found her way back again
In room 314
Carolyn can still be seen
On mount washington
The family business is never done
The balcony looks down
on the people below
She still out shines them
and still nobody knows.
newenglandfolklore.blogspot.co...gton-hotel.html]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[RPM Challenge song #6. Look at me, half way there!
Everything I had for the month was really slow until this fell into my lap. I sort of forced it, but it was fun to record.
The lyrics are a ghost story about a spirit that haunts the Mt Washington hotel. I included a link to the blog post that inspired the song.
All the guitars are ES-335.
The Ghost in 314
They built a deterrent
in the number of steps
each stairway is different
They don’t know what to expect
she knew her way ‘round
and they couldn’t fool her
so after she passed on
she found her way back again
In room 314
Carolyn can still be seen
On mount washington
The family business is never done
The balcony looks down
on the people below
She still out shines them
and still nobody knows.
newenglandfolklore.blogspot.co...gton-hotel.html]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:36:26 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-19T04:36:26+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Seasonal Affective Disorder</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning and looked out the window at all of the snow. The endless landscape of blank, frozen emptiness, and I just felt sick. I wanted nothing more than to go back to bed and sleep until May. So what did I do to combat this depression? I wrote a lyric titled Seasonal Affective Disorder.
The music is really simple and that was by design. I’d sketched out a few songs that seemed more complicated than they needed to be. This was a response to that.
The guitars are all ES-335 and the amp was my old gasoline soaked (really) Fender Stage.
Lock the doors at night
and put out the light
batten down the hatches
hiding from the white
some might call this life
seasonal
affective disorder
can’t escape the fog
fastest mode is plod
can’t get out of your own way
swimming through the smog
like a beaten dog]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I woke up this morning and looked out the window at all of the snow. The endless landscape of blank, frozen emptiness, and I just felt sick. I wanted nothing more than to go back to bed and sleep until May. So what did I do to combat this depression? I wrote a lyric titled Seasonal Affective Disorder.
The music is really simple and that was by design. I’d sketched out a few songs that seemed more complicated than they needed to be. This was a response to that.
The guitars are all ES-335 and the amp was my old gasoline soaked (really) Fender Stage.
Lock the doors at night
and put out the light
batten down the hatches
hiding from the white
some might call this life
seasonal
affective disorder
can’t escape the fog
fastest mode is plod
can’t get out of your own way
swimming through the smog
like a beaten dog]]></itunes:summary>
                                    <itunes:image href="https://img.hearthis.at/o/c/3/_/uploads/22365/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_75edacec57c7cebd106dab487d8596761554302639021d61bee3co.jpg" />
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                                        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 04:58:03 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-22T04:58:03+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Career Advice</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[When I finished high school I went straight to college as a music major. I knew it was a mistake even before I started, but music was my all consuming passion and I had zero interest in anything else. I figured I had to give it a shot even though the odds were grotesquely stacked against me.
Now my step daughter is about to start high school and the inevitable “what do you want to be when you grow up” discussions are starting to happen. She doesn’t know yet, but music is just as much of a passion for her as it was for me. Broadway is starting to call to her. She has more talent in her pinky finger then 10 of me have, but I know what’s waiting for her and I don’t want her to fail the way I did. One of her parents is probably going to forbid her from studying music as a career. The other, my wife, is like me. If it’s what she truly loves, we have to let her go for it. Personally, if I were to tell her no then I would be the world’s biggest hypocrite. We have a few years still. I’ll let you all know how it turns out.
Musically, I thought about a swingie 12-bar, but cut the phrases down a little instead. I always include a 12-bar in my RPM projects, but I’m trying to avoid it this year. I also used this song as an excuse to add in a lot of key changes and damn it if that didn’t bite me on the ass.
I recorded everything but the vocals and included a key change in the final chorus. Then I recorded the vocals in sections and copy and pasted them throughout the song… forgetting about the key change. Damn it! So everything but the last chorus was recorded using GarageBand for iPad last Thursday in my living room. The last chorus was recorded in the car today while waiting for my step son’s guitar lesson to end using GarageBand for OSX. I had to monkey to get them sort of sounding similar, but the difference sticks out to me like a sore thumb.
The guitars are all ES-335.
Give it a go
and see where it leads
you know it’s worth a shot
You never know
It might be okay
give it some thought
I’ve been there
I’ve done that
It did not
work out for me
I tried it
I failed
just like so
many before
This is not
about me
It’s your turn
you must decide
I can not
forbid you
I would not
tell you no]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[When I finished high school I went straight to college as a music major. I knew it was a mistake even before I started, but music was my all consuming passion and I had zero interest in anything else. I figured I had to give it a shot even though the odds were grotesquely stacked against me.
Now my step daughter is about to start high school and the inevitable “what do you want to be when you grow up” discussions are starting to happen. She doesn’t know yet, but music is just as much of a passion for her as it was for me. Broadway is starting to call to her. She has more talent in her pinky finger then 10 of me have, but I know what’s waiting for her and I don’t want her to fail the way I did. One of her parents is probably going to forbid her from studying music as a career. The other, my wife, is like me. If it’s what she truly loves, we have to let her go for it. Personally, if I were to tell her no then I would be the world’s biggest hypocrite. We have a few years still. I’ll let you all know how it turns out.
Musically, I thought about a swingie 12-bar, but cut the phrases down a little instead. I always include a 12-bar in my RPM projects, but I’m trying to avoid it this year. I also used this song as an excuse to add in a lot of key changes and damn it if that didn’t bite me on the ass.
I recorded everything but the vocals and included a key change in the final chorus. Then I recorded the vocals in sections and copy and pasted them throughout the song… forgetting about the key change. Damn it! So everything but the last chorus was recorded using GarageBand for iPad last Thursday in my living room. The last chorus was recorded in the car today while waiting for my step son’s guitar lesson to end using GarageBand for OSX. I had to monkey to get them sort of sounding similar, but the difference sticks out to me like a sore thumb.
The guitars are all ES-335.
Give it a go
and see where it leads
you know it’s worth a shot
You never know
It might be okay
give it some thought
I’ve been there
I’ve done that
It did not
work out for me
I tried it
I failed
just like so
many before
This is not
about me
It’s your turn
you must decide
I can not
forbid you
I would not
tell you no]]></itunes:summary>
                                    <itunes:image href="https://img.hearthis.at/o/c/3/_/uploads/22365/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_75edacec57c7cebd106dab487d8596761554302639021d61bee3co.jpg" />
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                                    <itunes:duration>211</itunes:duration>
                                    
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                                        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:47:59 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-25T20:47:59+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Rageface (remix)</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Musically speaking I wanted something fast and dumb. Lyrically speaking I wanted to use the word “rageface” for some unknown reason. Given how silly the whole thing was I went with the line “you laugh at my rageface” because is there anything more ridiculous?
This is the second mix with drastically reduced reverb.
The guitars are all ES-335
you laugh at my rage face
I’m a clown to you
I vanish with no trace
I never come through
another twist
another turn
another chance to feel it burn
another way
another day
another trip with no return
where theres a will
there is a way
and I know I’ll have to pay
another lie
another sigh
like you ever really try]]></description>
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                                    <thr:total>0</thr:total>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Musically speaking I wanted something fast and dumb. Lyrically speaking I wanted to use the word “rageface” for some unknown reason. Given how silly the whole thing was I went with the line “you laugh at my rageface” because is there anything more ridiculous?
This is the second mix with drastically reduced reverb.
The guitars are all ES-335
you laugh at my rage face
I’m a clown to you
I vanish with no trace
I never come through
another twist
another turn
another chance to feel it burn
another way
another day
another trip with no return
where theres a will
there is a way
and I know I’ll have to pay
another lie
another sigh
like you ever really try]]></itunes:summary>
                                    <itunes:image href="https://img.hearthis.at/o/c/3/_/uploads/22365/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_75edacec57c7cebd106dab487d8596761554302639021d61bee3co.jpg" />
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                                    <itunes:duration>147</itunes:duration>
                                    
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                                        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:51:24 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-27T03:51:24+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Two Years Left</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Have you seen the movie The Theory of Everything? I highly recommend it in a “I hate these damn movies that make me ball my eyes out” kind of way. The lyric to this song is sort of inspired by Dr Hawking’s diagnosis. He’s given two years to live. Can you imagine how crushing that must have been? What can you accomplish in that short a time? Fortunately the estimate was off by 50 years or so.
Musically this is super simple. Really, really slow with almost nothing but a little noodling in the rhythm guitars to break things up. This is the only RPM/FAWM song that doesn’t have every vocal track doubled. I figured one exception to the rule would be nice, although its harmonized all the way through.
The guitars are all ES-335.
two years left to do
everything that’s left to you
Two years and that’s all
two years left to think
every thought you have to think
two years and that’s all
how do you accept it
how do you comprehend
how can you believe it
how can you defend
can you be defiant
can you stand and fight
the truth is so clear now
how can it be right
two years used to be
an eternity
now it’s all that I have left]]></description>
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                                    <thr:total>0</thr:total>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Have you seen the movie The Theory of Everything? I highly recommend it in a “I hate these damn movies that make me ball my eyes out” kind of way. The lyric to this song is sort of inspired by Dr Hawking’s diagnosis. He’s given two years to live. Can you imagine how crushing that must have been? What can you accomplish in that short a time? Fortunately the estimate was off by 50 years or so.
Musically this is super simple. Really, really slow with almost nothing but a little noodling in the rhythm guitars to break things up. This is the only RPM/FAWM song that doesn’t have every vocal track doubled. I figured one exception to the rule would be nice, although its harmonized all the way through.
The guitars are all ES-335.
two years left to do
everything that’s left to you
Two years and that’s all
two years left to think
every thought you have to think
two years and that’s all
how do you accept it
how do you comprehend
how can you believe it
how can you defend
can you be defiant
can you stand and fight
the truth is so clear now
how can it be right
two years used to be
an eternity
now it’s all that I have left]]></itunes:summary>
                                    <itunes:image href="https://img.hearthis.at/o/c/3/_/uploads/22365/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_75edacec57c7cebd106dab487d8596761554302639021d61bee3co.jpg" />
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                                    <guid isPermaLink="false">164775</guid>
                                    
                                        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 03:46:38 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-15T03:46:38+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>White Out</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This is one of those songs that I had in my head complete (except for the lyrics) and I was really excited about. Unfortunately, what we have on the demo sounds nothing like what I was hearing in my head. With the possible exception of the snare drum in the first measure. The lyrics ended up being about snow. Sort of. New England has had the snowiest three weeks in history (there is another blizzard raging outside as I type this) and it’s already starting to feel like we’ve been buried alive in snow for years and years and years instead of just a few weeks.
The guitars are all ES-335 and the Amp is my old Fender Stage.
Just another day
Everything’s the same
Never going to end
don’t bother to pretend
Always be this way
nothing left to say
futures looking grey
make it through today
What’s left to say what’s left to do
There’s nothing left for me and you
I can’t explain what we’ve gone through
The world is emptiness its true
The sky is falling to the ground
It covers everything around
The world is lost and can’t be found
There is no chance we will rebound
There is no escape
There is no mistake
buried half alive
we will not survive]]></description>
                                    <enclosure type="audio/mpeg" url="https://hearthis.at/roberjames1971/white-out/listen.mp3?s=Jmi" length="0" />
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is one of those songs that I had in my head complete (except for the lyrics) and I was really excited about. Unfortunately, what we have on the demo sounds nothing like what I was hearing in my head. With the possible exception of the snare drum in the first measure. The lyrics ended up being about snow. Sort of. New England has had the snowiest three weeks in history (there is another blizzard raging outside as I type this) and it’s already starting to feel like we’ve been buried alive in snow for years and years and years instead of just a few weeks.
The guitars are all ES-335 and the Amp is my old Fender Stage.
Just another day
Everything’s the same
Never going to end
don’t bother to pretend
Always be this way
nothing left to say
futures looking grey
make it through today
What’s left to say what’s left to do
There’s nothing left for me and you
I can’t explain what we’ve gone through
The world is emptiness its true
The sky is falling to the ground
It covers everything around
The world is lost and can’t be found
There is no chance we will rebound
There is no escape
There is no mistake
buried half alive
we will not survive]]></itunes:summary>
                                    <itunes:image href="https://img.hearthis.at/o/c/3/_/uploads/22365/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_75edacec57c7cebd106dab487d8596761554302639021d61bee3co.jpg" />
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 04:29:05 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2015-02-26T04:29:05+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>One for the Road</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[FAWM calls for 14 songs. This is song #15. I wrote the music on the 24th, one day after deciding I was done with writing music. Go figure. The lyric is about writing a song after you’ve decided to stop writing songs. We’ve all been there, right? Right? Just me? Okay.
The guitars are all ES-335 and the amp is my flammable old Fender Stage.
Trying to squeeze this last one in
No time left so why begin
Trying to make this last one fit
One more time and this is it
with a deadline looming can I get it done on time
when the clock is ticking can I find the perfect rhyme
with the moments fading can I have the final word
and with no one listening do I care that it’s unheard
If I cross the finish it won’t really mean a thing
If I am I winner still no one will hear me sing
now the ends in site and I can’t seem to let it go
though it doesn’t matter no one else will ever know
with a deadline looming can I get it done on time
when the clock is ticking can I find the perfect rhyme
now the ends in site and I can’t seem to let it go
though it doesn’t matter no one else will ever know]]></description>
                                    <enclosure type="audio/mpeg" url="https://hearthis.at/roberjames1971/one-for-the-road/listen.mp3?s=Pu0" length="0" />
                                    <link>https://hearthis.at/roberjames1971/one-for-the-road/</link>
                                    <thr:total>0</thr:total>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[FAWM calls for 14 songs. This is song #15. I wrote the music on the 24th, one day after deciding I was done with writing music. Go figure. The lyric is about writing a song after you’ve decided to stop writing songs. We’ve all been there, right? Right? Just me? Okay.
The guitars are all ES-335 and the amp is my flammable old Fender Stage.
Trying to squeeze this last one in
No time left so why begin
Trying to make this last one fit
One more time and this is it
with a deadline looming can I get it done on time
when the clock is ticking can I find the perfect rhyme
with the moments fading can I have the final word
and with no one listening do I care that it’s unheard
If I cross the finish it won’t really mean a thing
If I am I winner still no one will hear me sing
now the ends in site and I can’t seem to let it go
though it doesn’t matter no one else will ever know
with a deadline looming can I get it done on time
when the clock is ticking can I find the perfect rhyme
now the ends in site and I can’t seem to let it go
though it doesn’t matter no one else will ever know]]></itunes:summary>
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The guitar is my ES-335 and the amp is my old Fender Stage which once was completely submerged in a flood of Concord River water and gasoline.]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This song is the definition of filler. Thanks to the worst February weather ever we had quite a bit of water dripping through our picture window last week. I recorded a couple of minutes of it. Add reverb, add delay, plan it around, loop, add a noodling bass, add a noodling guitar… and you get Rock and Roll Gold.
The guitar is my ES-335 and the amp is my old Fender Stage which once was completely submerged in a flood of Concord River water and gasoline.]]></itunes:summary>
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