Day 29: Have You Had Enough? (with Leah Casper)

 

Day 29: Have You Had Enough? (with Leah Casper)

Part of my song-a-day writing project for January 2024

Lyrics:
Plant a seed and grow the branches
Let it rip and roll
Take a sip of murky water
Watch the undertow

Stress fracture on a femur
Keep it lifting up
ATP through the fibers
Has it had a enough?

Has it had enough?
Has it had enough?
Oh, has it had enough?

Perfect image visualized
Hidden Mise en scene
Take a picture, heads up, asshole
You stuck your dick in it

Your twisted timelines will unravel
Working off the cuff
Cortisol through the bloodline
Have you had enough?

Has it had enough?
Has it had enough?
Oh, has it had enough?

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Details: I worked a little bit with Leah just before the pandemic and haven't really followed up until now (aside from covering one of her songs "Alright" in the Summer of 2020-- you can find it on YouTube).

Leah reserved a space at The Music District in Fort Collins. OMG, it is aMAZing!!!! It's a huge building with tons of recording spaces for bands and other meeting rooms. We were in a sizable performance hall.

Leah had been listening to Tool lately, so that was on her mind. I don't know Tool that well, except that they were Ian Mackaye's follow-up project to Minor Threat, and that they had been part of the D.C. hardcore scene.

Anyway, Leah had suggested a cool process: we each wrote short words, phrases and sentences on a sheet of paper, then tore them off the page and mixed them up. We each chose a few of the scraps of paper and used them to guide where we went with the song. I can't remember the prompts, exactly, but it took us places.

Leah has more of a free association process, whereas I like to talk about specific meanings and how they fit into the parts of the song. I think we reached a relative balance with what we came up with.

We were running out of time with the room reservation, so we had to make some quick choices, like not including a bridge or a third verse. But the moodiness of the song may be enough.