Hello everybody,
Here is a (hopefully) uplifting song about being overwhelmed. Hope you like it.
Put Your Hands Up !!Put Your Hands Up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands together & scream.
It's the year 2021.
It can`t be worse than last year but I might be wrong..
I've grown accustomed to my mask so it's staying on..it might disguise me.
God knows its going to get better..it couldn`t get much worse !
I´m at the end of my tether & driving in reverse.
Put Your Hands Up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands together & scream.
Straight from the mouth that bites me "10000 for your thoughts!"
Its strange I always try to play with things that can`t be bought.
Overslept through my wake up call..I`d been dreaming I was strapped to a cannonball.
When I woke up I discovered that it hadn`t been a dream at all.
Put Your Hands Up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands together & scream.
You say its going to get better?
I know my race is run.
You think I`m under the weather? I`m trying to find a gun.
Asking for help`s not a weakness.
Its not that easy when you`re proud but when you`re up all night sleepless.
Its time to shout it out loud !
Put Your Hands Up, put your hands up, put your hands up, put your hands together & scream.
Take your wishes & fly.
What originally started as a rap (?!) inspired by one of those US reality cop shows , started as a bile ridden ode for our magnificent leaders . Thankfully
@pompeyjazz said he would produce it for me & thinking about the homeless ,the lyrics changed to about getting overwhelmed (sometimes its all I can do to put the bins out at night ) but I wanted to make a song about depression/oppression sound joyous. Put your Hands Up can represent surrender but also solidarity & defiance.
As its only 3 chords I added a few riffs & noodles & ended up with a very basic home recording with 38 tracks! ;D..no jiggery & certainly no pokery, and gratefully handed them over to John
@pompeyjazz. I can`t say much about the production because his notes cover 3 pages & John did explain what he did & I still don`t understand it. ;D What I do know is that John transformed a very basic home recording dirge into a full scale production thing..very much what I heard in my head & just what I wanted. He added excellent backing vocals & loads of instruments & I`m very grateful to him & his brilliance.
The lyrics are nothing special..took the line "Straight from the mouth that bites me" from a John Lennon interview I heard. Its the best line in there & he`s been dead for 40 years, the swine ! Anyway, hope you can listen & be careful out there.
(At the time of writing its got 5 likes & 0 plays..gotta love Soundcloud!
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