Head Game - 12/16/18 11:28 AM
This is an homage to one of my all-time favorite late-60's TV series, Mission Impossible.
For anyone of my age, the first few trilling notes of Lalo Shiffrin's theme immediately perk up your ears, and maybe hair stand up on the back of your neck!
Peter Graves, the star of the show, once said that "well, each mission was all just a big head game.."
I used a 9/8 time sig, to pay tribute to Shiffrin's 5/4 scheme, and then tried to use both music and lyric to create a mysterioso, covert, espionage feel.
Head Game
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We're true to a genius blueprint plan;
We launch by the dark of midnight skies
Blending in where we can;
Our accents fly, get us by--'cause we're spies in disguise.
The gist is a twist in train of thought;
That forms the nature of our scheme--
Teasing them out till they're caught.
And if the HEAD GAME's good--let it play--we recede, slip away.
With a little bit of know-how
And a modicum of chance;
Everything we've done they'll disavow;
As we paralyze their plants;
It's a lovey kind of HEAD GAME,
When they think the choice is theirs;
We control the way the story ends
When they waltz into our snares.
If we come through, if it works out,
Then the bad guys fall.
But if we screw up and they catch us
They'll deny it all.
It's played to a tee, with clockwork skill,
And one-by-one we capture pawns,
Then we plot the kill.
The HEAD GAME's done, we've withdrawn--
They catch on, but we're gone.
With our cagey little hustle
We've been turning trust to doubt;
Sure, we gotta use some muscle but
It's the brains that pull it out.
It's a lovey kind of HEAD GAME,
When they think the choice is theirs;
We control the way the story ends
When they waltz into our snares.
If we come through, if it works out,
Then the bad guys fall.
But if we screw up and they catch us
They'll deny it all.
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Style = TURK.STY (9/8 Turkish - World Styles 2)
Midi Elements: Fretless Bass, Celesta, Shamisen, Sitar, kalimba, Piano, Pad, Muted Trumpet, Udu Drum, Conga, Triangle
Audio Live: Shaker
RT: 1286 Guitar Solo, Country Waltz Brent
For anyone of my age, the first few trilling notes of Lalo Shiffrin's theme immediately perk up your ears, and maybe hair stand up on the back of your neck!
Peter Graves, the star of the show, once said that "well, each mission was all just a big head game.."
I used a 9/8 time sig, to pay tribute to Shiffrin's 5/4 scheme, and then tried to use both music and lyric to create a mysterioso, covert, espionage feel.
Head Game
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We're true to a genius blueprint plan;
We launch by the dark of midnight skies
Blending in where we can;
Our accents fly, get us by--'cause we're spies in disguise.
The gist is a twist in train of thought;
That forms the nature of our scheme--
Teasing them out till they're caught.
And if the HEAD GAME's good--let it play--we recede, slip away.
With a little bit of know-how
And a modicum of chance;
Everything we've done they'll disavow;
As we paralyze their plants;
It's a lovey kind of HEAD GAME,
When they think the choice is theirs;
We control the way the story ends
When they waltz into our snares.
If we come through, if it works out,
Then the bad guys fall.
But if we screw up and they catch us
They'll deny it all.
It's played to a tee, with clockwork skill,
And one-by-one we capture pawns,
Then we plot the kill.
The HEAD GAME's done, we've withdrawn--
They catch on, but we're gone.
With our cagey little hustle
We've been turning trust to doubt;
Sure, we gotta use some muscle but
It's the brains that pull it out.
It's a lovey kind of HEAD GAME,
When they think the choice is theirs;
We control the way the story ends
When they waltz into our snares.
If we come through, if it works out,
Then the bad guys fall.
But if we screw up and they catch us
They'll deny it all.
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Style = TURK.STY (9/8 Turkish - World Styles 2)
Midi Elements: Fretless Bass, Celesta, Shamisen, Sitar, kalimba, Piano, Pad, Muted Trumpet, Udu Drum, Conga, Triangle
Audio Live: Shaker
RT: 1286 Guitar Solo, Country Waltz Brent
