Week 28

Brazen Tales

The subreddit theme this week involves diminished chords. I’ve rarely ever used them before. There is a little trick where these chords make a perfect transition when placed between major and minor chords, each a half step apart. I decided to use that trick and variations of it all over this song.

As I was working on the music and melody, I kept thinking of songs with similar bits. I hear pieces of Union Man by The Kinks, You Got It by Roy Orbison, and $1,000 Wedding by Gram Parsons.

BRAZEN TALES

They’re keeping track of me
I guarantee it
I want to be alone
With the fireflies on the west coast
Sending smoke signals back home

And the radios up in orbit somewhere
Keep me feeling stoned
I’m not gonna lie
I can’t explain why 
I just know, I just know, I just know

Feels good to
See through it all
Their leaden veils and their brazen tales
But the truth leaks through the cracks in their walls

They’re keeping track of things
So we don’t have to
And if you come back around here
I’m going to move your made-up mind somehow so
Bring a hungry heart with your dusty doubt

They’re keeping track of me
I guarantee it
Though I don’t really mind anymore
I see the ways of the world now
And it seems I was wrong before
Thank God I figured it out

The firebugs and the satellite drugs
Protect me from the spreading wars
I’m not gonna lie
I’ve changed my mind
As long as they keep me safe I’m on board
As long as they keep me safe I’m on board

Feels good to
Pierce through the pall
Their leaden veils and their brazen tales
‘Til the truth leaks out and I drink it all

They’re keeping track of me
I guarantee it