"Runaway Schemes" : FAWM

Runaway Schemes

1 week ago by @raspberry33

Skirmish: RUNAWAY (@corinnecurcio)

Runaway Schemes

raspberry33

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Liner Notes

#skirmish #runaway. Oh, man, it's 3:57 EDT and I just barely finished lyrics, so the demo will need to be posted later. Warning - it's political, though names and grifts have been redacted to protect the guilty. Update 5:40 PM - demo now posted; my vocals and keyboards with some help from Suno for the backing track.

Lyrics

Comments

@jerrypettit 4d

Everything here is great--lyrics, vocals and I LOVE the music bed. Terrific job! ❤️

@hmstreetteam 6d

Maybe I am reading too much between the lines, but I hear this as trying to gain actual momentum from repeating thoughts, and all the difficulties that naturally arise from that strategy. I like the power-pop treatment and the way it brings out the breathless trial-and-error angle in the lyrics.

@raspberry33 6d

Thanks! In the back of my mind, I was thinking about the "flood the zone" strategy of endless whack-a-mole scandals. Recent floods in Nepal. And how it's so easy to get caught up in the flood of mis-information and hand-waving. As with all skirmishes, the lyrics were done in less than an hour, and that doesn't leave enough time to really think about whether they all make perfect sense. I like the idea of gaining momentum from repeating thoughts, but this was more about stopping for a moment before diving into absurd conclusions. Like gasoline will be $2 a gallon and the war will only take a week.

@mikeskliar 6d

listening now- what a fantastic demo and a well thought out song! really engaging and engrossing. 'lost in a fog of patriotic games' is a great line and i'd love some more specificity on things like that, but that's just me, perhaps! really well done and the demo has lots of nice stuff going on.

@raspberry33 6d

Hey, Mike - good to see you at FAWM again! And thanks for the comments. "Lost in a fog" is an unsubtle reference to the UFC claw, Freedom 250, and draping everything in bunting so we forget about the Strait of Hormuz, rising gas prices, and the Epstein Files. Then again, I was envisioning the potential video and might have lost track of letting the lyrics stand on their own.

@kahlo2013 6d

Oh this is really great - love the great use the lyrics! Really fabulous use of the prompt and wonderful use of familiar idioms to deliver a compelling message. Awesome musical decisions and direction. Great sound and groove!

@ltunes 1w

I love love-love the use of idioms and metaphors in song lyrics. So this really hits it for me. I threw a couple in my effort as well, but you wrote a master class! I especially like the line "look down, see the cesspool we're standing in." Paints a vivid picture.