Here is another Spirit Level Project. This song got started by Ray sending me a backtrack for a listen. I loved the sound of it. Robert is on a bit of a sabbatical so Ray and I passed files back and forth replacing instruments with synths. Ray even sent about four tracks using a Mellotron effects pedal. Over a week or two the song started to take shape. We coerced Robert out of his sabbatical and he did a vocal and lyric for the song. This was very difficult as we did not want to change the key for him.
As the song was nearing completion Ray said he wanted to do a video and asked for some pictures or video of Robert and I playing to the song. So a first for us. Video no 1

Sound Cloud link
Broken Rhyme - Soundcloud

Youtube Link
Broken Rhyme - Video

BIAB
Drums - RealDrums=Grunge^4-a HiHat, b HiHatOpen
Organ - N A 671 Organ, B3, Background Southern Ev 120

Broken Rhyme
cochrane/Collingwood/Cordrey

Life on Earth’s not all it seemed,
Love’s something I could not have dreamed.
Tragedies compound,
my flights of fancy hit the ground.
Gravity,
Asserts itself:
Books fall from the shelf.

Secret thoughts, secret fears,
Covert love, hidden tears.
Broken rhythm, broken rhyme,
Severed in space and time.

Love on Earth’s not all it seemed,
Life’s something I could not have dreamed.
Happiness compounds,
Lighting a path across the ground.
Gravity,
Inverts itself:
The books back on the shelf.

Secret thoughts, secret fears,
Crypto love, cryptic tears.
Spoken rhythm, token rhyme,
A place in space and time.

Secret thoughts, secret fears,
Covert love, hidden tears.

Life on Earth was someone’s dream,
A lovely thought, not long to gleam.
Tragedies accrued,
All my lessons never used.
Gravity,
Asserts itself:
The books burn on the shelf.

Scott:
Gretsh Duojet
Gibson ES335
Eventide H9’s
Marshall 1974x
Guitars were double mic’d Rodes NT1A and Sunnheiser E906

Robert:
Mic: Shure sm27
Reaper/Waves vocal rider/Nectar2

Ray:
Vantage bass VS696B + Behringer BDI21
Harley Benton RB-612BK + Joyo ACToneClassic
Fender Squire Mustang Bullet HH + Mel9 Tape Replay Machine
Reaper & stock plugins
+ PSP Vintage Warmer 2, Focusrite Red Compressor, Ambience Reverb & Blockfish.
Mellotron .wav samples.

Scott Collingwood
https://soundcloud.com/scottt709
https://soundcloud.com/spiritlevel-ca
https://www.youtube.com/@SpiritLevel-ge3hm/