8. short stories II

6 days ago by @knobbyneggins815

Liner Notes

#gimmicks #experimental? #ifyoulistentothiatrackpleasereadthelinernotescuzitmakesnosensewithoutit

So I always knew this would be my Track 8 for the album, and had it recorded since last year, so I'm not going to count this towards my 14 songs this month! But that itch in my brain still needs it in my list of songs because it's (literally) a piece of a bigger puzzle.

Whenever I conceived of this idea to do a trilogy of albums, I had this gimmick-y idea to have a track on the 1st and 3rd album that are two halves of a whole. Like a "secret track" hidden in plain sight, if you layer "short stories I" and "short stories II" on top of one another, they make a complete and full track.

The issues here are obvious:

1. Nobody cares. I do, and that's sick, but like, nobody is actually going to download both tracks and put them in a DAW and time them right and whatever. I'm fine with that, I've done a lot more just to impress myself lol

2. Each track has to stand on it's own JUST ENOUGH to seem like it can be it's own song, while also having empty and barren parts that gel with the lyrics and the theme of "putting disparate pieces together".

3. The third part has gotta go somewhere. Once again, I have the final mixed track that is both of these songs put together, but what...a bonus track on Bandcamp? I dunno. That'll come later, if at all. Maybe I can just keep it for myself as a funny anecdote that I'll never tell anyone.

Anyhoo, thanks for reading this if you did, I'm sure we can all relate to making things because you have this idea in the back of your brain that won't go away.

Here is the first track from the first album btw, if you're interested:
https://soundcloud.com/brandon-brooks-746737217/short-stories-i

Lyrics

Echo from the forest
Just within the trees
Is begging me to run
But I don't wanna leave.

Fight the "fight or flight"
And every little urge
To admit that there's a figure
Just waiting to emerge.

Right on cue,
I'll just give up.

Oh it doesn't make a difference
Anymore,
The voices come and then
The world distorts.

I'll scream until
Something responds.

Oh, it doesn't really matter
Anyway.
The voices fade, and then
We're all erased.

Oh it doesn't make a difference anymore.
It doesn't make a difference anymore.
Oh it doesn't really matter anyway.
It doesn't really matter anyway.

Oh the pieces put together aren't enough.
The pieces put together aren't enough.

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