THE SONG: The theme that runs through this album is a kind of rebirth or starting over.... forgetting the past... and yes, killing it! But only killing the stuff that's getting in the way of the present, I have nothing against nostalgia:)
It was really hard to see the dissolve of my band FALLBORN. We're all close friends (and they're all brothers!) and we had all worked incredibly hard at the band. When it ended I felt like a dream died... or that the dream killed me... so I had to kill it back! haha. All this killing talk is sounding a bit morbid! It's just a metaphor people!
This song is about all of those emotions funneled into the story of two people in love. The resonances of rebirth echoed through my band situation, but also through my marriage as well, so this song covers it all. I needed to find a new place to plant my flag (emotionally) and start over somehow. I had taken every inch of my desire to share my own music with the world, and put into my band (where I had once put it into my "solo" music)... is I felt like that chance had passed... I was older now... andy maybe on some level, I wanted to go back to the "solo" life as an artist... though I didn't know it at the time of the band breakup (early 2010).
I felt such a sense of relief, satisfaction and catharsis when I wrote this chorus. when the lyrics came out, it just felt good to put it all in such a way that felt sad but celebratory... "let's burn this city down, dance on the ashes". I loved the city... but it had to go:)
I knew when I finished this song that I was making a new album and I knew what to call it.
THE RECORDING: I'm a completely self taught piano player... so that means, I'm not a Pianist, I just play the piano:)... like a drummer. So thank the Lord for midi. In order tow write what I heard in my head and to be able to phrase like I wanted to vocally... I sequenced the piano for the verse and wrote over it... it's not the easiest thing to play and sing, with good feel. So that's how the recording started... as I was writing the song, as usual. I got all the way to the bridge then laid down drums and began building the track.
Drums: this is the custom Fatty Snare... built out of a 14"x12" OCDP Floor Tom and snare parts... with a tambourine mounted against the head (see INVENTIONS page:). Lots of room mic on this one... which would be the U47 through a distress or on Nuke. As well as a pair of miss inside my piano that I crank up and compress... love what those do to the kit.
this is the amazing Dave Carpenter on bass... he plays some beautiful stuff on this track.... yet again. He played a Hollowbody bass on this whole album. Juicy. He's going direct through a sans amp into a NEVE 1073, a distress or at 4:1 and into protools.
This vocal is through my Telefunken U47, Retro 176 compressor into protools.
The mix went out my Neve summing mixer, through an SSL Stereo Bus Compressor and through the HAMMER EQ into the LAVRY GOLD convertor.
:)Adam
Original Release Date: September 21, 2010