https://soundcloud.com/lee-brown-75/think-it-through

"Think It Through" is my latest serious composition, following "Lights". I didn't consider "My Mate Jack" as a favourable representation, but more of a "fluff-piece" !!

This was intended to be a ballad, but I think it got away from me in the end, far too much electrification, instead of focusing on playing it acoustically. The subject matter also doesn't really lend well to a ballad, although having said that is "Happiness is a Warm Gun" a ballad? So lyrically, this is a very simplistic point of view about gun control. I've treated the subject with kid gloves really, as I know guns are seen as a right in some places. But the message is simple enough, in that they ruin lives, and more often than not it's the innocent who pay the ultimate price.

So, I did four vocal takes and selected the "optimum" track for the verse, doubled up vocals on the pre-chorus and four tracked the chorus. The doubling each time gave it extra weight and finally reached orgasm in the chorus. (can I say that?) The vocals are okay but I wouldn't say exceptional. Towards the end of the second chorus, you can make me out struggling for breath with some of the phrasing. The intro and outro lead guitar is myself and not BIAB, it worked okay, not Joe Satriani, but not bad for improv.

The Youtube video, I hate doing the videos too time consuming, is just illustrating that we all have options and it depends which door you decide to go through. I apologise for some of the odd subliminal images in the second half, I was just trying to visualise the darker side of the human psyche.

It's a wrap.... not a rap, hate rap!!!

BIAB Summary:
Style is _DRVBRTS.STY (Modern Groove Soloist, Brit Rock)
RealTracks in style: 1827:Bass, Electric, PopModernGrooveA-B Ev16 075
RealTracks in style: 1835:Guitar, Electric, Soloist PopModernGrooveGritty Ev16 075
RealTracks in style: 677:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm RockBritDriving Ev 085
RealTracks in style: 680:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm RockBritSoulful Ev 085
RealDrums in style:RockBritDrivingEv16^1-a:Snare, HiHat , b:Snare, Ride

Real Instruments:
Seagull Coastline acoustic guitar
Hils NEXT Headless HN5 electric guitar


Lyrics:
VERSE 1
Cradling my firearm, keeping safe from harm.
Holds at bay the darkness of the approaching storm.
A moment of tension, just one bad word.
It’s my voice of reason, waiting to be heard.
PRE-CHORUS
A shadow steps out in the night.
What’s it take to put the wrongs right.
CHORUS
So think it through, oooh, whatever’s hurting you.
The fog will clear by the morning.
Don’t look back or down the track.
There’s always someone behind you.
So think it through, oooh, what you’re gonna do, oooh.
Think it through, infamy is calling.
SOLO
VERSE 2
It’s funny how in an hour from now.
Not a single word will be spoken.
Wrong or right, I’m up for the fight
Don’t care what rules or lives broken.
PRE-CHORUS
The shadow lurking out of sight.
What wrongs will you settle tonight?
CHORUS
So think it through, oooh, whatever’s hurting you.
The fog will clear by the morning.
Don’t look back or down the track.
There’s always someone behind you.
So think it through, oooh, what you’re gonna do, oooh.
Think it through, infamy is calling.
Don’t look back y-yeah, don’t look back y-yeah,
Don’t look back behind you.
OUTRO