So this is it, the penultimate song. Recorded the music yesterday evening - it's one of my favourite beats, but I don't think I've used it so far, have I? Pride In Mathematics is a similar thing, but not quite the same. Rushing has led to me totally ballsing up the compression on the lead vocals, I'm afraid - bit pumpy.
Now, lyrical content. "When all around has fallen" was the line that popped into my head first, so I started writing about a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely collapsed, and people desperately cling on to the little things that make them human. But I got bored with that, and it kind of morphed into a comment on an argument my brother and I had while I was up north for Christmas. It got quite vicious. And the subject of the argument? Quite simply, it's because my favourite James Bond actor is... Timothy Dalton.
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| Unfairly maligned |
What a bloody stupid thing to argue about. So the song's about people fighting over stupid things that really don't matter. I wanted to get a Dalton reference into the song, but it just wasn't fitting right... so I changed it to one of my other many unpopular opinions; viz. William Hartnell is my favourite Doctor Who. I'm not even into Doctor Who, really - but by Jove, I'll defend Hartnell to the death if I have to, which luckily I almost certainly won't. Of course, I could have changed that particular line to something more sensible, but I've done 51 songs this year - I'm not feeling very sensible at the moment!
Right, enough of this - I've got Song 52 to do before the clock strikes 12 and my computer turns into a pumpkin.
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