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Get your washboard and kazoo out for this one

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited April 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
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.
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  • Ian MIan M Posts: 123
    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!
    http://ruggedindoorsman.wordpress.com
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Haha, I wrote that thing in the bath this morning. I didn't have the kazoo with me at the time, of course. :)
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    I like it! :)
    (It's very simple compared to what you usually write.)
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  • DopeBeastieDopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    oh, this is awesome, fins

    so true, so true... god!
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    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. :)
  • burtschipsburtschips Posts: 734
    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.

    quote]

    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.
    Salut baloo
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    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?
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
    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.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    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! :)
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    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.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • twin1twin1 Posts: 902
    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 :)
    Our love must not be just words, but True Love, which shows itself in action,
    No one needs a smile more than someone who fails to give one,
    After you die...you know how to LIVE!
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Tell you what, I'll record an a capella version right now. :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    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. :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    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. ;)
  • pacifierpacifier Posts: 1,009
    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. :D

    I really like it :) In my head though I heard it as going a lot faster than that. good stuff.
  • burtschipsburtschips Posts: 734
    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.
    Salut baloo
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Thanks. I'll record a better quality version with guitar, soon. :)
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