Get your washboard and kazoo out for this one

FinsburyParkCarrots

When you get up to a certain age of mind, my friend
Armageddon’s just an everyday thing
When you get up to a certain age of mind, my friend
Armageddon’s just an everyday thing
And the ones you leave behind won’t really mind The End
If there’s chance to jump this hellfire ring
Yeah, when you get up to a certain age of mind, my friend
Armageddon’s just an everyday thing

All your days you’ll see these people with their blazey big eyes
They’ll speak of passion with a capital P
Yeah, all your days you’ll meet with people, see their blazey big eyes,
Their fashion’s passion with a capital P
They say that living like a razor might cut gold dust from the skies
You’ll tell ‘em love springs from the ground, they won’t agree
All your days you’ll see the crazies with their blazey big eyes
Shining passion with a capital P

When you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
Just know, you see far better when the days are like these
Yeah, when you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
Just know, you see far better when the days are like these
And you learn to love the sunshine when it ever ventures back
You look for light behind the mantle of ill-ease
When you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
Just know, you see far better when the days are like these.

Ian M

Really enjoyed reading this
'Shining passion [verb/noun?] with a capital P' describes the crazies v. succinctly, and also gives me more of a handle on my own crazy tendencies.
That whole barren glitz of living every day as though it were the last: no one ever has the courage let alone stamina to make of a that a viable way of life. When did living in simple contemplation from one year to the next become outlawed?
Anyhow thanks, and here's to the sunshine beyond that horizon / behind those clouds!

FinsburyParkCarrots

Haha, I wrote that thing in the bath this morning. I didn't have the kazoo with me at the time, of course.

justam

I like it!
(It's very simple compared to what you usually write.)

DopeBeastie

oh, this is awesome, fins

so true, so true... god!

FinsburyParkCarrots

Thanks, Pasta. I got the guitar out and sang along to this, and found one or two places where the rhythm needed tweaking. So this is the finished version here:

Age of Mind

When you get up to a certain age of mind, my friend
Armageddon’s just an everyday thing
When you get up to a certain age of mind, my friend
Armageddon’s just an everyday thing
And the ones you leave behind won’t really mind The End
If there’s a chance to jump this hellfire ring
Yeah, when you get up to a certain age of mind, my friend
Armageddon’s just an everyday thing

All your days you’ll see these people with their blazey big eyes
They’ll speak of passion with a capital P
Yeah, all your days you’ll meet with people, see their blazey big eyes,
Their fashion’s passion with a capital P
They say that living like a razor might cut gold dust from the skies
You’ll tell ‘em love springs from the ground, they won’t agree
All your days you’ll see the crazies with their blazey big eyes
Shining passion with a capital P

When you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
You see far better when the days are like these
Yeah, when you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
You see far better when the days are like these
And you learn to love the sunshine when it ever ventures back
You look for light behind the mantle of ill-ease
When you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
You see far better when the days are like these.



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Cheers.

burtschips

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

When you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
You see far better when the days are like these
Yeah, when you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
You see far better when the days are like these
And you learn to love the sunshine when it ever ventures back
You look for light behind the mantle of ill-ease
When you wake up in the morning and the clouds hang black
You see far better when the days are like these.

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That encapsulates a lot and flows real well. It seems to be an example of one of those moments when you realise something when you've got the time to think..... like in the bath! or walking or before you sleep. And it seems very clear. You going to record it?? did you get tickets for Dublin? I didn't go for dublin in the end, went for Prague and hope to get verona. Have a blast if you did.

olderman

good to know you did not have your electric guitar in the bath while you wrote this fins. i bet the wash board was loud.

needs a bit of banjo, eh?

pacifier

I really like this. I would love to hear it as a song. And I agree with olerman, it could use a bit of banjo I've actually heard some really good bush bands and I think that I could hear them playing this.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Yep. I think you know how this will sound, chord wise. A little in that shuffle beat ragtime mode, similar to, say, "Alice's Restaurant" or something from Dylan's "Love And Theft" album. That's the feel I want. I can play it on guitar, but yes, a banjo would be lovely. Maybe a jazz violin too. Line six of each verse could do with some ascending diminished chords, you know, old time!

Ali

We will all be dead,
may the deserters go down
in angel dust of agent orange?
Or will they really lay behind
to live such a pleasant life?
I guess it's something they just don't
care to explore.

twin1

pacifier wrote:

I really like this. I would love to hear it as a song. And I agree with olerman, it could use a bit of banjo

I agree with Pacifier...good read

FinsburyParkCarrots

Tell you what, I'll record an a capella version right now.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Okay, go to the finsburytunes link in my sig and it's up. I'm only singing into the soundcard, as it were, but you get the idea. Pity I can't sing for sheeeeet.

FinsburyParkCarrots

burtschips wrote:

did you get tickets for Dublin? I didn't go for dublin in the end, went for Prague and hope to get verona. Have a blast if you did.

I have a certain contact on the case in Dublin, this weekend.

pacifier

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Okay, go to the finsburytunes link in my sig and it's up. I'm only singing into the soundcard, as it were, but you get the idea. Pity I can't sing for sheeeeet.

I really like it In my head though I heard it as going a lot faster than that. good stuff.

burtschips

Hi, I liked it a lot too, pretty gutsy just putting it out vocals only but it works well. I don't think it needs too much more but would be interested to hear it with some simple guitar or something. liked the blue and feather (?) pic for it too.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Thanks. I'll record a better quality version with guitar, soon.