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I think the chorus for this one might have been started as long ago as 2008 under a song called "The Race" (and that chorus was eventually pushed off to the outro, so it's a completely different song from how it started). It wasn't until it came together with the introduction that I realized I'd written I Want Out.
It's probably very easy to tell what this is about - it seems to end on rather a hopeless note, but that's about as optimistic as I can get since moving to America. Despite that it's much happier than my recent music and is probably one of my less serious offerings overall. I would have liked to have said something more profound with the icon, but I couldn't find the image that I remembered and nothing else really came to mind.
The pre-chorus section "It takes so long to teach them what they never want to learn, turn your back on the fire and you'll burn" is more or less a direct quotation from a prominent American politician. I wish I could remember who it was.
Lyrics
The country's broken, and they know just who's to blame
They tell you lies and want a mark next to their name
Trust in your brainless fear and gullibility
To make you see what they tell you to see
The donkey and the elephant
The rose and crayon tree
Choosing which of their lies you will believe
And the race goes on forever
As we try to best ourselves
One side spreads lies and hate and fear
The other wants to save the world
Every time the dance began
A new face took the stage
But the future refused to change
So grab your flag, we'll march together to the square
No need for reason cause we all know why we're here
They'll change their minds about us when they see our words
Who cares what all the others say, we'll scream until we're heard
It takes so long to teach them
What they never want to learn
Turn your back on the fire
And you'll burn
And the race goes on forever
As we try to best ourselves
One side spreads lies and hate and fear
The other wants to save the world
One will stand above the rest
And promise hope and change
But turn out to be just as strange
Sit back with covered ears
You'll make them king of all the world
Turn your back on the fire
And you'll burn
And the race goes on forever
As we try to best ourselves
One side spreads lies and hate and fear
The other wants to save the world
Every time the dance began
A new face took the stage
But the future refused to change
And steadfast we will stand divided
Cause united we would fall
Still we live, side by side
Just as long as we're alive
And the future will never change
I think the chorus for this one might have been started as long ago as 2008 under a song called "The Race" (and that chorus was eventually pushed off to the outro, so it's a completely different song from how it started). It wasn't until it came together with the introduction that I realized I'd written I Want Out.
It's probably very easy to tell what this is about - it seems to end on rather a hopeless note, but that's about as optimistic as I can get since moving to America. Despite that it's much happier than my recent music and is probably one of my less serious offerings overall. I would have liked to have said something more profound with the icon, but I couldn't find the image that I remembered and nothing else really came to mind.
The pre-chorus section "It takes so long to teach them what they never want to learn, turn your back on the fire and you'll burn" is more or less a direct quotation from a prominent American politician. I wish I could remember who it was.
Lyrics
The country's broken, and they know just who's to blame
They tell you lies and want a mark next to their name
Trust in your brainless fear and gullibility
To make you see what they tell you to see
The donkey and the elephant
The rose and crayon tree
Choosing which of their lies you will believe
And the race goes on forever
As we try to best ourselves
One side spreads lies and hate and fear
The other wants to save the world
Every time the dance began
A new face took the stage
But the future refused to change
So grab your flag, we'll march together to the square
No need for reason cause we all know why we're here
They'll change their minds about us when they see our words
Who cares what all the others say, we'll scream until we're heard
It takes so long to teach them
What they never want to learn
Turn your back on the fire
And you'll burn
And the race goes on forever
As we try to best ourselves
One side spreads lies and hate and fear
The other wants to save the world
One will stand above the rest
And promise hope and change
But turn out to be just as strange
Sit back with covered ears
You'll make them king of all the world
Turn your back on the fire
And you'll burn
And the race goes on forever
As we try to best ourselves
One side spreads lies and hate and fear
The other wants to save the world
Every time the dance began
A new face took the stage
But the future refused to change
And steadfast we will stand divided
Cause united we would fall
Still we live, side by side
Just as long as we're alive
And the future will never change
Category Music / Rock
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File Size 5.52 MB
Weird to see Power Metal with such an overt political focus :p It works here though. I never knew you were in the States.. You'll soon enough get used to the political polarization and the neutering of our legislative branch by the resulting dichotomy.
I also wanted to thank you for posting the tabs along with your music, playing through your songs is always incredibly enjoyable and usually quite challenging. I don't know how you expect someone to play the 32nd note tremolo picking in bar 71 the way you placed it in the tab, though :p I hybrid pick the notes on the E string while using the 14th fret on the G string to play the pedal notes, and that seems to work out pretty well.
When you first started writing music you didn't play any instruments, right? Do you still score most of your tracks without your guitar, or do you use it as a writing tool? I'm curious because I play a LOT of power metal covers, and there's a very unique feeling to the guitar lines that you create.. I could definitely pick them out of a lineup of riffs.
I also wanted to thank you for posting the tabs along with your music, playing through your songs is always incredibly enjoyable and usually quite challenging. I don't know how you expect someone to play the 32nd note tremolo picking in bar 71 the way you placed it in the tab, though :p I hybrid pick the notes on the E string while using the 14th fret on the G string to play the pedal notes, and that seems to work out pretty well.
When you first started writing music you didn't play any instruments, right? Do you still score most of your tracks without your guitar, or do you use it as a writing tool? I'm curious because I play a LOT of power metal covers, and there's a very unique feeling to the guitar lines that you create.. I could definitely pick them out of a lineup of riffs.
I've been here for just over four years now, and was all excited by watching the map in 2008, but it's been going steadily downhill since then and it was the sheer nastiness of the attack adverts for the November elections that really got to me. From a distance, when I lived in Britain I thought American politics were insane, but having now seen it up close... my God.
Anyway - an interesting question! You're right that I didn't play the guitar when I started writing music - I used to use Modplug, where this didn't matter, but even since I moved to Guitar Pro 5, I still write music mostly without the aid of the guitar and then go back through it and attempt to do my best at working out how this might best be played. When I record them myself, I often find much better ways of doing it than the tablature that I write out just by sight, but this one was rattled through in a morning without playing it (though I'm planning to record this one later on).
I'm really pleased to hear, by the way, that someone is actually using and playing the tab files - now I know they're actually being used I'll have to take more care with them ;) To be honest I had no idea how the superfast tremolo parts in the solo might reasonably be played either and had imagined some sort of tapping (I'm still not at the level of actually being able to play the vast majority of my own music) but I will certainly follow your recommendation! Thanks a lot for your thoughts.
Anyway - an interesting question! You're right that I didn't play the guitar when I started writing music - I used to use Modplug, where this didn't matter, but even since I moved to Guitar Pro 5, I still write music mostly without the aid of the guitar and then go back through it and attempt to do my best at working out how this might best be played. When I record them myself, I often find much better ways of doing it than the tablature that I write out just by sight, but this one was rattled through in a morning without playing it (though I'm planning to record this one later on).
I'm really pleased to hear, by the way, that someone is actually using and playing the tab files - now I know they're actually being used I'll have to take more care with them ;) To be honest I had no idea how the superfast tremolo parts in the solo might reasonably be played either and had imagined some sort of tapping (I'm still not at the level of actually being able to play the vast majority of my own music) but I will certainly follow your recommendation! Thanks a lot for your thoughts.
You realize that you made the MODPlug album version even sillier, and therefore even more lyrically dissonant. You have actually surpassed Helloween and Gamma Ray in that regard, so congratulations. I mean, you even kept both the Chrono Trigger Downer Ending reference and the ... splortch at the end. It's like you're trying to rip a hole in the space-time continuum by making me type sentences like "written by Zack de la Rocha (lyrics) and Jun Senoue (music), performed by Edguy."
I think this song needs an official music video, and that official music video needs to just be this GIF looping over and over for the song's entire duration.
I think this song needs an official music video, and that official music video needs to just be this GIF looping over and over for the song's entire duration.
This now has a very nice, sort of unique vibe from you musically! Massive like :) - also like the weird lyrics accompanying it, somehow the whole concept together reminded me a bit to The Grand Illusion by Styx (It is funny though that I have a midi with lyrics of that music, well that was composed somewhat more similar to this music of yours. This might explain if the similarity sounded weird at first). I always like these stuff, well, they deserve it, not? :p (And by the way that's probably nothing compared to that MESS what is here in Hungary these times. They are about to "renew" our constitution, one political party who managed to get legitime rights to do this, and anything all alone. I am so so happy we are already part of European Union, otherwise I would definitely rather pack up and run away).
I'd never heard The Grand Illusion before, but I love the sentiment of the lyrics :) Gamma Ray used to write music along those themes as well in their early days, with political songs and those that describe... sort of disillusionment with the rockstar lifestyle.
I was really hopeful with the direction America looked like it might go a couple of years ago, but - quite opposite from one party getting rights to do anything - they seemed to have the opposite problem of not really being able to do much effectively at all. Hence, the future refused to change!
I was really hopeful with the direction America looked like it might go a couple of years ago, but - quite opposite from one party getting rights to do anything - they seemed to have the opposite problem of not really being able to do much effectively at all. Hence, the future refused to change!
Styx's entire album "The Grand Illusion" is great, and with the exception of Come Sail Away (which, quite frankly isn't that well written at all, lyrics wise) has got great meaning to it.
Notably "Miss America" "The Grand Illusion" and Man in the Wilderness" are worth listening to. My favourite track is "Castle Walls." "The Angry Young Man [Fooling Yourself]" is also definitely worth mentioning. Suffice it to say, it's the best album they ever made.
Notably "Miss America" "The Grand Illusion" and Man in the Wilderness" are worth listening to. My favourite track is "Castle Walls." "The Angry Young Man [Fooling Yourself]" is also definitely worth mentioning. Suffice it to say, it's the best album they ever made.
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