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This was written and first demoed in June/July of 2007. The earliest version featured Brian Moskin on drums, Giulio Carmassi on bass and organ, and Kelli Noftle singing backup. I’m not sure why, but it never really found a place in the Dead Messengers’ live repertoire, only being performed live a few times with the band. For the album version recorded at Radar! in the fall of 2008, I invited Buffy Hublebank to sing the female harmonies and my big brother, Bryan to join Buffy and a few members of the band in the gang-land sing-along section of the outro.
After making the decision to go solo in 2006, I found in 2007 that while I loved my new musical direction, I increasingly longed very much to be in a band again. This led to a lot of demoing and preproduction work with Brian Moskin and Giulio Carmassi that would last throughout 2007 and beyond, as well as the formation of my backing band, The Dead Messengers. This song was written very much in the spirit of those early days in the spring/summer of 2007 as the core group was taking shape, including Giulio, Brian, Kelli Noftle, Frogs, and Steve McDonald.
lyrics
Me and my friends, we’re starting a band. Yeah me and my friends, we’re getting a van
And we’ll drive round and round, with the stereo loud and the lights down low. We’ll drive round and round with the windows down until someone tells us where to go.
Me and my friends, we’re going on tour, because we just can’t sit still anymore, and I’ll get a girl with me, singing harmony in a polka-dot dress, and I’ll get down on one knee, three times a week, but no matter what she won’t say yes.
And I’ll document my fears, for the whole wide world to hear, I will, I will, I will. And escape the same old spin, find something to believe in, I will, I will, I will.
Me and my friends, we’re learning to see: a year just ain’t what it used to be, so we’ll ring the bells at the cheap motels in the dead-end towns, and we’ll knock back shots in the parking lot and run ourselves into the ground.
Break a bone in every state, and be dead by twenty-eight, I will, I will, I will. Find something to believe in and never go home again, I will, I will, I will.
I’m trying like hell to believe in something.
credits
from Beneath a Balcony,
released August 4, 2009
Marc M Cogman - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals & percussion
Frogs - electric bass, backing vocals
Giulio Carmassi - B3 Hammond organ
Steve McDonald - electric guitar
Justin Siegel - drums, backing vocals
Buffy Hublebank - backing vocals
Bryan Cogman - backing vocals
Produced by Justin Siegel and Marc M Cogman
Recorded at Radar! (Los Angeles, CA) by Justin Siegel and Eddie Jackson and Black Truffle Studio (Los Angeles, CA) by Giulio Carmassi
Mixed at Radar! (Los Angeles, CA) by Eddie Jackson
Mastered at Archon (Sherman Oaks, CA) by Aris Archontis
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