Here Comes the Sun [Trio Demo]
This song’s gone through many permutations, settling (as usual for me) into something that falls well short of the three minute mark, even when recorded with a full band. It seems like every time something pops into my head that could stretch to epic proportions — with solos and strings and intros and outros — I inevitably just hack away until it’s down to “single-length” or shorter. Maybe this is a good thing. I imagine that if I was actually on a label, I could waste a fair amount of their money downright FORCING songs like this to sound like Queen (or whatever). But I’m not, so I don’t. I’ll consider that a lucky thing.
This was recorded in December with John and Larry (at a session documented here). I sang a live vocal that seemed decent at the time, but in listening back it’s actually kinda “hot” (and not in a good way). Still, that’s what you’ll hear in this demo, with nothing really EQ’d or mixed with anything more than a concern for basic volume levels. I’ve already added piano and smoothed out the drums for what will eventually be the “real” version, but I wanted to post up something that would give a sense of the energy level of the trio recordings, which is pretty high! And awesome! And exclamation! Point! But seriously, the way this song explodes at the end is, to me, kinda thrilling…
Lyrically, there are references to intemperate weather which would give you an idea of the initial aim, specific-subject-wise. But thankfully, I ended up blending in stuff that’s less topical and more personal. Still a hard balance, those two. Let me know what you think.
here comes the sun
our paper route would start at dawn we’d
cause the cracks in winter lawns we’d
form of something formed of ice
the wonder twins like satellites(back to) our nickel-gas-fueled happy home and
chocolate served in styrofoam and
canned applause and cereal
and golden static radio(but now there’s) nothing left of the dial
i only hear you sing from files we
shine our stars with aerosol
and drown in never losing callsoctober comes and we fall back the
storm windows still at half mast here
comes the sun in all its might
but you can’t tell me it’s alright
