Accident, Waiting to Happen

4 hours ago by @spazsquatch · @johnkaniecki

Liner Notes

#randomcollaboration with @johnkaniecki, who wrote the lyrics, although I adapted heavily during the recording and believe I shifted the meaning in the process. Maybe it was guilt over role-playing the lead in An Odd Bet (https://write.fawm.org/songs/314526), our previous collab, but I turned it into something the thematic opposite unintentionally.

Like the other collab, it began pre-FAWM when I went crawling through my old projects. I found several past FAWM and 50/90 projects that were complete, but I decided not to upload due to disappointment in the lyrics... so this is where my story changes from the previous liner notes, I actually passed along three tracks so he could choose one, and he responded with two sets of lyrics.

In an email, John mentioned his preference for the previous song, and I agree. I think this has "great bones" as they say, but it's a little less focused, and the arrangement has dynamics that hint at it's parts being shuffled around. It's all quite fixable, but probably not while heading into the home stretch of FAWM. I still quite enjoy the song AND, like with An Odd Bet, it doesn't remind me of the song it previously was. That's a success.

Lyrics

[Verse]
Lovely lady in a black negligee
Down on your knees, that’s how we pray
Sadly sobbing without any tears
Realizing truth is the worst you can fear.

[Verse]
She led me by the hand like a stray dog
Her penthouse, was merely grey fog.
She offered wine, for a moment I passed,
But could't miss the call to live life fast.

[Chorus]
There are only volunteers for this mission
it's an accident, waiting to happen
Blind leading the blind’s ambition
Toward an accident...

[Verse]
The rush was over, temptation was quelled
The promised heaven, burned like hell
An angel from a magazine page
Had me pouncing like a wildcat out of it's cage.

[Chorus]
There are only volunteers for this mission
it's an accident, waiting to happen
Blind leading the blind’s ambition
Toward an accident...

[Break]

[Bridge]
Caught in that sleepy place where two worlds merge
She had the right looks I had the urge
The fantasy that I know I must own.
Drags me down, and has me feeling old.

[Outro]
Only volunteers for this mission
An accident waiting to happen
Blind leading the blind’s ambition
An accident waiting to happen
There's no way to undo the hurt
An accident waiting to happen
Once you set-off you can never return
An accident...

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