“Idol 2 Idle” Song Debut

TheSongDiary : Volume 2

Todays New Track:

“Idol 2 Idle”

This is a new series that will feature brand new songs as I complete them for my upcoming (and often delayed ) “Programmed Response”

 

 

This song was originally recorded back in 2005 in its basic instrumental form , and went through several title changes before finally resting at “Idol 2 Idle” as its final. Originally entitled “Islamabad” and was to be centered around my view on America’s war on terrorism in Afghanistan, and the correlation to the poppy seed industry in that country that fuels multi-billion dollar heorine trade in the West. I couldn’t effectively find the right form of pliable expression that I wanted, and in early 2006 I came across an article about the formation of Isreal by the first Prime minister, David Ben-Gurion in The Nation magazine. This inspired the lyrics first eight bars, and are directly related to the history of the region.

I have always found it incredible the hypocrsy of organized religion and the sanctioning of violence and historical manipulation it uses to control others while furthering its own political and monetary capital for the sake of ‘God’. I have always searched for a way to convey my disgust and disdain in such a way that I could say many things using allusions and phrases containing double-meaning. This song was an on-again, off-again attempt at doing just this, and a strage 2 1/2 year odyssey in that regrard. irrespective of whatever may result, I am pretty fucking proud of it. the song was completed on October 8th 2008.

The Music: The ‘bones’ of the track were directly inspired by a Pete Rock/9th Wonder produced track from their seminal 2005 collaboration called “Class In Session”. Rather than put through a loop sample of my own, I decontructed what they did, and reconstructed using organic instrumentation such as acoustic guitars, piano and a live drum track which were put in place, plus a reconstructed key signature. When a friend of mine first listened to the demo back in the summer of 2005, he aptly named it the “Hill Street Blues ” track ( after a 1980’s television show theme song), which has a similar sound. Extra percussion fills and staccatos and further filtering and arrangement were added during August-September of this year.

The lyrics : a conglomerate of historical references to Isreal, World War II, and the victims of the Exodus , a group of eastern-European Jewish refugees who fled Germany after of the Fall of the Nazis whom escaped the concentration camps and were originally bound for New York, but through diplomatic manipulation by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion of the Truman Administration in 1946 was able to keep the Exodus out to sea for seven months, and eventually had them disembark in the port of Haifa to be personally solicited by Ben-Gurion to fight against the Arab incursion in the name of Israel itself.

The problem : the refugees themselves were never asked what they wanted in this ‘fight’, and the native Arabs were never asked for their input about this new State; this ‘New Centre of All World Jewry.’ The second half of the lyrics is an all-out assault on all three groups involved in the Middle East mess: The Western Christians, the Jews, and the Muslims. There is an admitted empathy towards the Palestinians, however, as it seems they are ultimately the victim of ‘Big Brother American’ and Israel: both of whom are economic and military superpowers, While Palestine is more underdeveloped and poor. It seems to reek of bullying the brown man; the ‘lesser’ one…

Enjoy!.. and *ponder*

And, as always, all lyrics, vocals and instruments are written and performed performed by myself..

Did anybody ask the Arabs exactly what they wanted
Before they smothered Palestine in the Summer of ‘47?
Why didn’t David have the courtesy to send the eviction notice
Before turning Gaza and The West Bank into his bathroom floor?(Main Chorus)
Idol 2 Idle
Car bombs to coffe shops
desecrating mosques and synagouges
F-14s and Hamas..
..The head of Muhammed

Wasn’t enough to screw the survivors of Hitler’s ‘Master Plan’, leave
the Exodus hanging out to sea for all of seven months.
Whoring out the martyrdom for Truman to take the bait..

A ‘Holy’ epicenter for all the suffergettes all assembled for a new
Israeli state..

(Main Chorus)
Idol 2 Idle
Car bombs to coffe shops
desecrating mosques and synagouges
F-14s and Hamas

Idol 2 Idle
Jesus and body parts
all cut and blown to bits
And crimson-colored be the head of Muhammed
Shot 2 shit

In the center of this GodRape
Like flowers trampled underfoot
Menora pre-eminent domain
While the crescent of a lesser prohet
Has no say

It’s a blank space to a blank check
Big Brother American
Got to take up for their Jewish brothers
While making blood in the sand

You know it’s quite alright to just go ahead and take all their lives
Their ‘God’ is Mud for he lacks money, and the big blue eyes
And praise Our ‘God’, and shoot the Devil, cos Allah is a Myth (yeah!)
Stab and shoot and kill each other in the name of stones and sticks..
And Praise The Lord and Pass the Pistol; Christian Armies march
Strap the bomb right to the child and blow him through the Stars

 

Idol 2 Idle
Jesus and body parts
all cut and blown to bits
And crimson-colored be the head of Muhammed

It’s all about your God…..It’s all about your flag (x4)

Copywright 2008 ShoEnTeL Publishing(ASCAP)

“All Is Love” Song Debut

TheSongDiary : Volume 1

“All Is Love”

This is a new series that will feature brand new songs as I complete them for my upcoming (and often delayed ) “Programmed Response”

 

 

The dynamic in composing and songwriting is that it can come lightening fast, or can need some incubation time until the proper inspiration is found to give the song the proper vision and context it deserves. This song was a bit bit of a bastard in that I had elected to commit to transitioning in the mid-bridge in a completely different (but relevant) key signature. This coupled with the fact that the main guitar is electric-acoustic, and the second guitar was electric, both being at completely different tones altogether. It was originally put together in March 2007, but just completed with vocals on July 17th 2008.

The Music: The tonal shift/sound variation I actually liked, but I ended being rather put off about how tricky it was going to be to cumulatively get it cohesive enough to make it a complete song with vocals. If you listen closely, you can here the closing guitar at the last third of the song losing intonation slightly. rather than correct in the original recording, I decided to leave it instead, as I like the character of a ‘build up’ that inhabited with this anomaly. Electric guitars. many of which, do not retain their tuning very well, especially when the whammy bar is consistently applied…

The lyrics : my take on what it means to live in the superficial and perpetual singledom of Hollywood. There is a conglomerate of misery in this town that dwells among those who are trying to run with the hipsters and make their mark in entertainment. In doing so, they fail to recognize the importance of placing human intimacy ahead of attempting to ‘keep up’ with the glamorous lifestyle.

Years pass, and being perputually single has become its own inprisonment. The inability to not only acheive the dream of stradom but also having a genuine sense of true campanionship leaves nothing left but the bitterness and deprevity of the self-subjection to the material world. The very thing that was hungered for has consumed and devoured them, leaving nothing left to show but an acute sense of ’sour grapes’ at those who have found love, while they themselves have only found it through the conditional dynamic of pet ownership and selfishness. Enjoy!

And, as always, all lyrics, vocals and instruments are written and performed performed by myself..

All is Love
Hide behind veneers and wasted years
And Times; and lines of empty voices
Filling Empty Rooms

All is fine-
An Easy smile, the madness of solitude
Break lights on a chance that you have
Set Ablaze

All is Love
closer to the Dog , than to your Neighbor
And Favor, what you can scold that has no Voice
To talk back…

And hatred’s like a noisy anger
That burns the House inside your Head
No tears with eyes wide and dry..
So just fight and die instead..(X2)

..All is love;
Party favors wet with flesh
Dissolve in the morning haze..
What tasted like Fire, Now is Dead
In Your Gaze…

And Hatred’s like an orphans’ blanket
That wraps the cold inside your Head
No tears with eyes burned and fried..
You’ve earned the right to be Dead

..(And)All (that) Is Love, Has Died…(Repeat Until Fade, With Ad Lib)

Copywright 2008 ShoEnTeL Publishing(ASCAP)