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Patriot/Expatriate
Dust off a plain tomorrow I'll sit it out It isn't meaning so much then Patriot/Expatriate My tongue among the heathen I'll wait it out All heads asleep I'll find myself Save one more day for travel |
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Liner Notes: This was the first song written after "A Piece" which I guess makes it the first song for "White Collar Punk", although I didn't come up with the concept of WCP till after "Hello Sailor" was recorded. At that point the new record was to be called "Need Information" after a song which I later scrapped. At the time I was very disappointed by the results of the 1996 presidential election and was harboring a fantasy about ditching the country for a while. The song is about working through that fantasy and the solid reasons why I ultimately rejected it. Ironically, after writing the song I took off for a month-long sabattical to Japan. Perhaps it is even more ironic that I contracted the chicken-pox while there and was quarantined for half the trip... I am especially proud of this song because every line has multiple interpretations,
all of which are correct. Those are not even all of the interpretations for those lines, I'm not even going to bother to disect the whole song for you. Careful reading and creativity are essential to understanding this song. |
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Reviews:
Here's what people had to say about the song on www.garageband.com : Anonymous - West Chester, Pennsylvania Thanks! I was really proud of the lyrics to this song, because even though they are short, there are a lot of different meanings packed into every word. The reason the part at the end is so high is that my voice would have really been cracking all over the place if I moved it down by octaves to the edge of my range. So I decided I'd pitch it up so that it was completely past the danger zone and into the range of falsetto, which isn't pretty either, but is better than my voice actually cracking... theherb00 - Mclean, Virginia Anonymous - West Helena, Arkansas If you'd like to talk trash about songs from aspiring musicians, be sure to check out www.garageband.com . If you join, don't forget to say that Timon Marmex sent you in the field where it asks. |
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