MRI - "Bathsalt Jesus" Official Version/Producers' cut [bandcamp dload]

here's the official "banned" version LOL  ;p 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0TR4tj0ao
5/4 time sig / DADGAD
 
Bathsalt Jesus
Words & Music by Daren Thomas Turner © 2013 / MRI
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Closer is the last wave and far away from here
Halloween costumed and dead tsunamical
A twilight of your idols; a midnight of your sun
Insufferable as the company of one
Seriously are you kidding me?
Starring in your own no one show
Instagrammed like a jellyfish hash-tagged with #noSpine
Colder than a dark star and frozen into space
All your motivation an accoutrement at best
Bedizen me with Snooki like lobster in a sauce
Alive when you kill it off the planet earth
At minute number seventeen
I stopped my own cold heart
I closed my eyes and walked out of the summertime
Over, like these movie credits shot out into space
All the extras' names are written on your face
All the characters you always got to play
(They perished deus ex machina: in a botox hurricane)
I was born to die just to save the human race
I was born to die just so you could eat my face
I was born to die just to save the human race
I was born to die just so you could eat my face
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Daren Thomas Turner: guitars, vocals
George Matthews: drums
Alan Cruz: bass, analog samples
Engineered by Daren Thomas Turner
Produced by Danarchy and Daren Thomas Turner © 2013 MRI
 
 
 
>> Sept: 10 update: we had entered song in songwriting contest to get on songwriterUK forum bandcamp "Summertime" album ;p
kinda funny when u read lyrics as 'barely' qualifying for judging - anyways we made it onto the bandcamp album .. it's last track #17
ironic as number is mentioned in song :) so there is public download and/or listen to album here: http://summertunes.bandcamp.com
 
they are WAV files uploaded so I'm assuming you can get a lossless download etc...  cheers!! - DT and co.

Can't hear the lyrics.

Daren,
 
Everything you have posted to date has thoroughly impressed me.  Excellent work on this song.  I agree that I would turn up the vocals just a touch.  
 
As you had said in the thread on lyrics, "the best lyrics don't say anything definitive-they just temporarily liberate us from the limited ways in which we think and feel."  Well, you nailed it then with these.  I could study these lyrics for days.

Bob, Darin, Lynn, Mike, Starise -- 
 
wow thanks x infinity for kind words about our silly music - means a lot!! :)  humbly grateful. 
 
i hear you all loud and clear on vox levels -- i guess it's just a stylistic quirk of mine - the verses are indeed pulled back a bit on purpose 
to let George's drums, which I love, take some prominence - Gtars too-   also the pre chorus and choruses are way louder than verses IMO and the outro they are super boosted - I wanted to leave enough headroom for outro esp after normalization - 
maybe also b/c the song is in D but I'm kinda singing a Cmajor based mode ( forget-the-name-olydian ) which is lower still and i'm basically a baritone so perhaps at lower listening levels the frequencies blend more - but when cranked on a good system they are very there unless I'm like just going Beethoven deaf or something lol ;p 
 
as to the lyrics well this isn't really the place to discuss them and as Mike pointed out in that cool coffeehouse thread i think it's important that lyrics dont say anything definitive as what I was trying to say literally ... 
i mean I could go on forever about the satire, cultural irony/memes Snooki lol, zeitgeists, religion, instagram, hashtags, twitter, Facebook, zombie apocalypse, bathsalts, idoltry, christianity, the vatican, ego, vanity, botox, the painful media, fame and faux fame, schizophrenia, metaphysics, spirituality, the gospel of st thomas, A Course In Miracles, 'The Disappearance Of The Universe' by Gary Renard   ... but I won't ;p 
it is, at the very same time, a bunch of nonsense that is just fun to sing and harmonize to and nothing more... just based on a story about a stillborn who died when he was 17 minutes old - someone who only lived for 17 minutes...
 
 
HEy so I just found out we made it to this BANDCAMP 'Summertime Song' contest/album- free download with option to donate to a cause -- it's #17 on the album- ironic huh?? You can get the full WAV file there :) along with the other songs, some of which are pretty cool.  I love the "Psychedelic JErusalem" song - great BEatles/London sound!! 
http://summertunes.bandcamp.com
 
 

Hey, Daren, I thought I commented on this a couple weeks ago before we went on baby watch.  It's really well done as usual.  I always tell you the vocals could come up a bit but I know they are where you want them.  I agree with Herb that without that words I wouldn't have a clue what you are saying.  I didn't read them all so I don't know exactly what you said.  I was impressed with the sound of the music. 

Congrats on your selection for the bandcamp song contest!  I'm not a metal guy (mellowing in recent years), but you obviously know your craft and execute it well.  Kudos!

AT
Lyrics can either float on top or w/in the rest of the music.  Within pulls you into the soundscape (hopefully).  It works for me, is in line w/ other songs in this genre and you seem to have you reasons lined up like ducks.
 
Real rocker, to boot.  sounds great.
 
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hey very cool you worded it perfectly!! 'w/in the rest of the music' also my vox can get nasally/snarly and if too loud to my ears i'm like "SHUT UP" to myself lol i think the natural harmonics in my overtones cut though enough so you hear the presence of vocals entirely - as to the particular words i kinda always liked going to the lyrics to read them etc.. :) - thanks for listen!! - Daren 

MakeShift
Daren,
 
Everything you have posted to date has thoroughly impressed me.  Excellent work on this song.  I agree that I would turn up the vocals just a touch.  
 
As you had said in the thread on lyrics, "the best lyrics don't say anything definitive-they just temporarily liberate us from the limited ways in which we think and feel."  Well, you nailed it then with these.  I could study these lyrics for days.

xactly. thanks. i try to tell people to not think too deeply about the lyrics and let them mean what you want them to mean/think they mean. art can't exist in a vacuum - it needs an audience, not a definition... :) 
 
- Daren