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This frenetic, drop-D rocker came about very quickly during a time of really heavy creativity.

I rarely write more than two or three songs at a time opting to concentrate on quality rather than quantity. I believe I pushed out four or five songs in the span of a couple of weeks when I wrote this one.

Also of note is the amount of percussion I bothered to throw down. I was able to have more fun with the 8-track and really piled on the shite.

The fuzzy, twangy lead guitar track is courtesy of the legendary Danelectro "Amp-in-Case" Model 1448--just like "Skunk" Baxter on "Reeling in the Years".

lyrics

the way you look/the way i can wake up on any side of the bed/long summer shadows don't always follow/i thought it'd be easier by now/thought it'd be easier somehow

unhappiness/sometimes i digress/
am i a mess/yes i'm a mess

check the machine/electric, lifeless and always lacking the answer/while the chemicals just do what's asked of them
i only care what happens when it's past you bedtime/it's past your bedtime

unhappiness/sometimes i digress/
am i a mess/yes i'm a mess

everything's weird now/everything's weird now/everything's weird now/now...

credits

from No Cigar (unreleased & assorted demos), track released August 12, 2009
Recorded on a Yamaha 8 track summer of 1998 at 11th & Pine rehearsal studio, Seattle, WA. All instruments performed by me.

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A. Michael Collins Los Angeles, California

LA-based Drummer, Guitarist, Singer-Songwriter.

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