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"I'm definitely not sure."
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"You'll notice about 80% of all the hits that have ever been out in the marketplace -- they follow a traditional song pattern, which is verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, and out."
"We are like Pavlov's dog as listeners."
"And every time you hear a song, look at Billboard and say 'Oh, that's so-and-so and they're chart number 32.'"
"You know how you write better songs? By listening to other people's hits."
"What happens when you get in your car in the morning and you turn on the radio and there's a new song on there and it's got a 37-second long intro? You change the station, don't you? You think it's an instrumental song! What the hell station am I tuned in to here?"
Shackled to a dead horse, long over-beaten
He jousted in the dense fog of the walking comatose
His lance did splinter, now wrought with repairs
But the blunted end has proved more useful
Freedom sparked at dawn's edge
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A Childe Grafts a Bone
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We stowed our hopes into the brightest of dream clouds
And locked them inside our fathers' wooden ships, cloaked in old shrouds
We struck out across dark waves, straining to make precise of the vague, ancient orders
Searchlights cut the deep
Distract, blindingly
We stare or we sail on
The truth shifts through cracks upon a twisting landscape
While the clock sprouts legs and darts away
Twenty years at sea, and at times it seems we've found it
Penned down and circled on our ragged parchment
Through trial and revision...
Well, we can discern some of the dangerous waters,
but the safe realm seems to elude us
We tried to find firm land but the map was too blurred by red ink
We freeze up or we sail on
It seems the land's thin glass / It seems the trees drink glass
We slip on crack-filled planks
Our minds all draw us blanks
We tried to find the truth, but our ship was too weighed and sinks
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Make-Believe Machines Des Moines, Iowa
Neo-classical and soundtrack music composed by Justin Norman, performed with Anna Kucera, Elaina Steenson, Patrick Riley, and Scott Yoshimura.
Artist photo by Nick Ford.
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