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about
Falling in love can be a terrifying experience, especially when you’ve fallen for someone who’s proven them-self to be so volatile. This song spoke of my true-to-life experience, going off the deep-end for a girl, with all that mix of elation, terrifying vulnerability, and the feeling of impending disaster.
Written in the fall of 2007, this song utilized the same open C#5 tuning I used for “Passenger Seat” on Beneath a Balcony. The fretless bass track Giulio Carmassi recorded during an early 2008 demo was so effective that when it came time to track the album version, Frogs suggested Giulio play the bass there as well. The drum beat also originated with Giulio on that demo, though Justin Siegel played it on the album version. Steve McDonald added his guitar and e-bow tracks as well.
lyrics
Welcome to the bitter end, I’m falling off the floor again, repeating routine tragedy. Side by side it has to be: the mad-high of possibility and the feeling when I hit the street. So I’ll put all my thickest armor on, icy cold, cause I don’t need anyone, til I melt like I snowflake on your tongue.
So welcome to my chosen rung: the dangerous place I dangle from, a melancholy music stave, and piano wire: a copper cage, and nooses out of guitar strings, and the saddest songs I’ll ever sing. Now I’ve chosen whose side I am on, and I’ll swear that I don’t need anyone, til I melt like a snowflake on your tongue, til I melt like a snowflake on your tongue.
So I sing, til the air all leaves my lungs, shut my eyes, cause I don’t need anyone, til I melt like a snowflake on your tongue, til I melt like a snowflake on your tongue.
credits
from Anthems,
released March 6, 2012
Music and lyrics by Marc M. Cogman
Marc M. Cogman - vocals, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, hand percussion
Steve McDonald - electric guitar
Giulio Carmassi - fretless bass
Justin Siegel - drums
Produced by Marc M. Cogman and Justin Siegel
Recorded at Radar! by Justin Siegel, Eddie Jackson, and Frogs, and Black Truffle Sound by Giulio Carmassi
Mixed at the Lily Pad by Frogs
Mastered at Beach Studio by Eddie Jackson
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