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I Should Say Farewell

I Should Say FarewellI Should Say Farewell is first new song I wrote in 2014 (and the first new one I’ve wrote in a long time). Sometimes you just have to do it. You get an idea and no matter what’s been getting in your way, you just say, “fuck it.”

I said, “fuck it.”

But only after a week and a half of sitting on this tune and thinking I’d never write anything else. I mean, by choice. Like, just give it all up. All of this.

But then I said, “fuck it.”

Sometimes that helps.

I wasn’t really sure what this song was about, but after singing it a few times and recording it, I’m gonna guess that it’s about Noah. That’s my guess. It’s biblical. That’s probably why I had no idea when it first came out. Didn’t know why I had to write the words I had to. Didn’t know what they meant at all.

Sometimes that happens

And then I say to myself, “fuck it.”

Bieber Porn: The Talkin’ Headline Blues #111

The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week’s topic: Bieber Porn.

Bieber Porn: The Talkin' Headline Blues #111
Be sure to start your Super Bowl party with some Bieber Porn.

Redefine empty bread.
Raise hits porn people.
Bieber for the libido change.
My anxiety did burn.

Virgin’s F-Word: The Talkin’ Headline Blues #110

The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week’s topic: Virgin’s F-Word.

Virgin's F-Word: The Talkin' Headline Blues #110

Breastfeed this virgin’s teen.
Female stuff for when gentlemen near the record f-word.
Help what fight?

It’s So Hard Knowing (Version 2)

For this re-recorded version of It’s So Hard Knowing (click here to listen to the original) I actually used the melody of another re-recorded version of a different song from a few years ago. This one.

It's So Hard Knowing (Version 2)
Blisters happen. It’s a FACT.

I was going to do the same fingerpicking guitar part too. I did a bunch of recordings. I tried and tired. But I’m out of practice, it hurt my fingers too much and I couldn’t get the tempo right, so I scrapped those recordings and just sang the fingerpicked part. Made it more different than I originally intended.

And then my fingers were free to pick other things, like noses, ears, butts, fights, scabs, fruit, lint, teeth, toejam. And they were only mildly blistered.

Anyway, have a listen:

Black Suicide: The Talkin’ Headline Blues #109

The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week’s topic: Black Suicide.

Black Suicide: The Talkin' Headline Blues #109

Cold here.
Most angry legendary adults
kill faith.
Teen bigfoot heralds
black children.
Madonna suicide.