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LNR2: Things in Your Head (2001)

# Tracks	14
Total Time	37:14
Source	Computer (.wav)
Src Date	1995 - 2001
Mixing	Cool Edit 96, DDClip, Acid
Mix Date	2001 Jul - Sep
Release Date	2001-09-01

Album Notes

Cover Art

Here's the "artwork" (covers) for this CD in the case that you never got a real copy or spilled coffee on the original. (These images are 150 dpi.)

• Front (51KB)
• Front (Compact) (76KB)
• Back (46KB)

Songs

1. Night Has Come

   Track		1
   Length		4:39
   Size		5.2 MB
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   Notes		I was just starting adding drums to songs so I didn't know what I was doing. It was written in October 1996 during some messy emotional crap with my then-girlfriend. I guess the ending lyrics gave the CD its title ("What is the thing that\'s in your head?"), but I was also noticing that I say the word "head" a lot in the first few songs.

   Lyrics

   The night has come, it's quiet and alone And outside the air is like cement And my window frames the street for me I'm in my chair swimming in defeat And I'm here thinking all is lost And I hear the whispering beneath And don't say that I shouldn't think About it 'cause I am (Then I will stop with nothing more to say I'm not going anywhere Left behind in the same place, nudged from time to time and caused to stir When I am here, she is content) The fire has burned out and has left Me ashes I use for my bed And my dead mind slips and circles round The insides of which I can't get out And I'm here thinking all is lost And I hear the whispering beneath And don't say that I shouldn't think About it 'cause I am And I I take everything that's on the floor Floor rots turn into what I want Want you flying crazy in the sky Sky and I lose And I I I can't reach and grab for what I want Want what is the thing that's in your head The thing that's in your head

2. D7

   Track		2
   Length		2:39
   Size		3.0 MB
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   Notes		I've never heard the original version of this song (by the Wipers). I've only heard the Nirvana cover. This song would be amazing to play live in a small club with a bunch of crazy moshers.

   Lyrics

   Standing on the stairs Cold cold morning Ghosts speak __ fear M'aidez m'aidez Gonna leave this region They'll take me with them Dimension seven Straight as an arrow Defect defect Not straight, not so straight Reject reject 'Cause antisocial So dull so dull Standing on the stairs Cold cold morning Go sleep into fear M'aidez m'aidez Gonna leave this region They'll take me with them Dimension seven

3. Reasons Lost

   Track		3
   Length		1:04
   Size		1.2 MB
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   Notes		This one is from February 1996 and the mp3 fits on a 3.5" floppy. I don't think there's any bass guitar in this or the last song. The magic came out when I added the "hey" during the chorus. Again, I mention the word "head": "It's all in your head."

   Lyrics

   Reasons lost and reasons hated Too bad for you 'cause I created Everything that you now see You can't change a single thing Just because that we don't care Doesn't mean it isn't there You don't notice You don't notice You don't notice You don't notice it's all in your head

4. Calculus

   Track		4
   Length		2:11
   Size		2.5 MB
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   Notes		Hmm... apparently this was written four days before "Reasons Lost". Oh, and I can now say that I no longer hate calculus. Good times with the three tracks of vocals for the verses, and I got to rhyme "rest" with "derivatives".

   Lyrics

   You know I really tried my best I just took a really hard test But I You know I really hate calculus Oh god, I really hate calculus You know I really hate calculus Studied today, I didn't get no rest Integrals and derivatives

5. Please Don't Call Now

   Track		5
   Length		4:19
   Size		4.8 MB
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   Notes		I recorded the guitar verses with my acoustic guitar intact. By the time I got to making up a large bridge/interlude/whatever, the plastic nut had broken and my fat E string was flopping around on the frets. (That's the rattle you hear at 1:53+.) I wrote the words in Aug 1999 and Jun 2000 and only finished in 2001. This song took longer to get around to finishing than any other.

   Lyrics

   I keep you alive Keep breathing, try Eyes roll back, no, damn And back you slide I realize You haven't much time You cough blood no damn oh Swing that side wall And please don't call me I can make you falling down Die off slowly Then look right through me I can make you falling down

6. project 06

   Track		6
   Length		1:54
   Size		2.1 MB
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   Notes		That's the AM dial you hear throughout. It was time for me to use the cliché.

   Lyrics

   [none]

7. Prime Us

   Track		7
   Length		2:37
   Size		3.1 MB
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   Notes		This has got to be from some time after 1998 since I used DDClip and its 4 tracks to make it. I placed each and every wav drum hit by hand. I think I used James Brown snare and hi-hat and RHCP kick. The guitar-sounding thing is from "Tommy the Cat" by Primus, hence the name.

   Lyrics

   [none]

8. Acoustic Thing

   Track		8
   Length		2:47
   Size		3.0 MB
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   Notes		This is one of the first things I did with DDClip at the end of 1998. I didn't realize that I should use a 44.1kHz sampling rate instead of 22. I didn't put this on Dead Pigs because I thought it sucked too much. But I relented when the fans petitioned. I put it up on mp3.com and some fool included it for the Folk Rock mp3.com radio station they created (however that works).

   Lyrics

   Leave it alone, it hasn't grown I haven't grown, leave me alone I'm not the same, am I insane? Is it ingrained or in the way? They sadly came and took away all the drowning carload That may be why I really die when I can find so why bother? By the way the bastards came and took away your sport coat I tried to say and take away but they just gave me another

9. i cannot see

   Track		9
   Length		1:22
   Size		1.5 MB
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   Notes		I don't know what I was thinking for this one. The melody came from a dream I had. I always dream of really bad-ass songs but can never remember them when I wake up.

   Lyrics

   I I cannot see I don't know why Don't ask me how come That you You are not me You never will be So don't sympathize Tell me what it means So I can walk across the sky And I will turn off all the lights And gather all the sympathy I'll ask you why are you like me When I accentuate your hate And you will clean off all your plate And then go hide between the trees

10. She Enters Smiling

    Track		10
    Length		2:46
    Size		3.1 MB
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    Notes		Based on actual events. A post-dumpage song. Very post as it was 9 months later. How about that disco drum ending? The original CD burning ended with this song. I eventually added 4 more songs and gave the first master CD away at an open mic night in exchange for the winner paying for my drink.

    Lyrics

    Clawing inner membrane tissue that leaves scratches in my head Even though she entered smiling, I remember all that she said It's hard to make myself realize That the scabbing is only now healing over If I let this achingly lonely aspect of my psyche Let it just take me over I would Back this up, slow it down Maybe give me more time Lay me down and let you read my mind Sitting on a stone bench carving watching thinking of what she said My response time lagging only now I'm realizing what she meant And I don't know fight come down Come inside Try to know me now Why should I cry somehow I move on

11. HS-500 Symphony

    Track		11
    Length		2:06
    Size		1.9 MB
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    Notes		I got an HS-500 Yamaha when I was 7 and I taught myself how to play christmas songs on it. This song was recorded in 1983. Okay... not really.

    Lyrics

    [none]

12. Open Ocean

    Track		12
    Length		2:15
    Size		2.4 MB
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    Notes		"Open Ocean" is my most favoritest song. Ever. It was recorded the same morning I wrote it. The first demo recording was screwed up by CoolEdit so what you hear is the second demo recording. I liked the way it sounded overall and didn't re-record it. The night before I was told to get over a girl who lived just too far away to be practical (1600 miles). When I woke up, I was listening to some sad Doo-Wop and decided to write something like that. I don't think I did, but I got a good song.

    Lyrics

    I'll apologize now for a sad song Sixteen hundred miles of open ocean Maybe I can row it Maybe I can swim it Maybe I would drown And if I were to go there Things might turn out badly Go back home Should have known And here is the dumb thing If she wasn't if she isn't wherever she's now I would still have to write her letters Instead of hearing her very sweet sound

13. Necessarily

    Track		13
    Length		2:20
    Size		2.7 MB
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    Notes		Written in May 1995, the same year as classics such as "It's Claire", "Running Down the Hall", "Is This the Way It Should Be?", "Oh Me", "Finding What I Want", "Bridge", and the hit "Butt Muffs", it was only in 2001 that music magic was maximized with bass and a guitar solo.

    Lyrics

    Don't whisper your name You are not the same As all the rest of them You don't sleep in your own bed Oh, you don't dream that you're ahead You don't necessarily

14. With My Cosmic Rays I Will Smite You

    Track		14
    Length		4:41
    Size		5.1 MB
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    Notes		The beat came into my head at work (physics student worker). I was working on a cosmic ray data acquisition system. All non-percussion sounds are from guitar, reworked with CoolEdit96.

    Lyrics

    [none]