For those of you who want the genuine article. This is the same CD that was available on CD Baby and at Marc's shows. It's now here at Bandcamp. (1) disc in Digipack. Booklet includes photos, credits, and lyrics. You receive automatically receive a digital download with purchase.
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Written in pieces throughout 2006, finally coming together more or less in-studio as we were tracking Danger Show. If I remember correctly, the main guitar-line was something I’d had floating around for many months, even as far back as Neon Calm jam sessions, where it was rejected as a song prospect. Justin Siegel on drums, Frogs on bass, Reed Berin on cellos, Nelson Lindsley on electric guitar (except for one lead lick leading into the outro, for which he handed the guitar to Reed Berin), Giulio Carmassi on piano. I played hand percussion, acoustic guitar and sang the lead and numerous backing vocal tracks.
Despite the fact that this song has been performed live exactly once – at the CD release show in March of 2007 in Burbank, CA – I love it. It’s the indie-rock anthem I always wanted Neon Calm to write. More glossy in production that most of Danger Show, it never really found a home with my live band, a fact which disappoints me somewhat. I was happy when video director Sonya Strich gave it new listeners with her excellent video in 2009. The song, fairly evidently, is about me, and deals with themes I’ve revisited with every subsequent record – the artist experience, and philosophical questions about what “happiness” can be for people who create certain types of art and live a certain type of existence. They are rhetorical questions, I suppose, as I’m no closer to answering them all these years later.
lyrics
You’re the picture of uncertainty: sad as a bruise in your big black boots. So chalk it up to poetry, get another tattoo, embrace whatever’s hurting you. Or just write it in a line, sing it with a rhyme, but don’t deny that it’s the truth: you chose a lonely, lonely way to spend your time. So add it up and decide: are all the words in the world going to keep you satisfied, or do you need more out of life? Or do you need more out of life?
You’re the poster-child for misery: you sulk and you brood. Oh, how it makes them swoon. But you can’t commit to anything. You’ve always got one in the wings, waiting for you to make your move. And someday you might see, but for now you’d rather be the boy who’s always got the blues. You chose a lonely, lonely way to spend your time. So add it up and decide: are all the words in the world going to keep you satisfied, or do you need more out of life? Or do you need more out of life?
You’re allergic to stability, refusing love, thinking you can’t risk enough. But the danger swallows everything. It’s a song you only meant to sing, words you meant to write, but never meant to be your life. You chose a lonely, lonely way to spend your time. So add it up and decide: are all the words in the world going to keep you satisfied, or do you need more out of life? Or do you need more out of life?
credits
from Welcome to the Danger Show,
released March 27, 2007
Marc M Cogman - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, & percussion
Justin Siegel - drums
Frogs - electric bass
Giulio Carmassi - piano
Nelson Lindsley - electric guitar
Reed Berin - cello, electric guitar
Produced by Marc M Cogman
Recorded at subSpot (Venice, CA), Archon (Sherman Oaks, CA), Red Skeleton Haus (Los Angeles, CA), and Giulio's House (Mar Vista, CA)
Mixed by J.D. Andrew at YeRusto! (Santa Monica, CA)
Mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Sound
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