Hey there guys and gals, Alec again! How are your lives? Are you following your hearts desires? Sticking to your ideological guns? Committing to the things that are important to you in life? Yeah, me neither.
Anyway, I’m here to give you a taste of my exploits as a lyricist and song writer. These are lyrics I’ve come back to on and off since like May, as per my usual habit of “Write an idea down, forget about it, look at it again like 2 months later, tweak it a little bit, repeat.” I spent most of it just changing word choices that I thought were cheesy, or obfuscated what I wanted to talk about. Anyway, I finally decided to just hammer it down and call them finished about a week ago, and as such, my friends at the Writer’s House suggested I show them off to you. Cause what good is creating something if you don’t have the pride to show it off, right?
This is a song about being generally sick of your own thought process. Being sick about not knowing what you want, being sick of how your brain works, being sick of the stupid shit people do around you, and the mixed messages you get. Most importantly, it’s a song about giving up on trying to be happy. Live it, love it, learn it, folks.
Set Phasers to Fail - by Alec Adams, written for solo voice and bass guitar in A Major but you could probably easily use other instruments too.
Drink me up and then lay me aside
Cause I prefer to stay an empty glass
Rescue me
And then bring me, once more
Into the alley where you kick my ass
And if all I ask is an empty flask
Why is it such daunting task
To break from my own damn cerebral noise?
Fuck you, girls and boys
Fuck your shiny toys
Fuck all of your
Plastic, fantastic, biodegradable
Joys
I’m finished with this shit
I’m gonna throw a fit
And make a blog of it
For all my best friends to see
On the internet
Take me away from
The things that make me love
Take me away from
The things that sing of fun
And upset my blood
And then let my angst choke ‘em all
And color me obsidian
All I know is that I can’t ignore
All the things that leave me in defeat
Go ahead
I still know what you said
Cause they’re the things that put the chill into me
And if all I do is insist it’s true
That I have problems just like you
Then why do I feel so damn insincere?
Wish that you were here
The shit’s just too unclear
And everything that’s near and that’s dear to me
Won’t interfere with me
When I feel the fear
I’m finished with this shit
I’m gonna throw a fit
And make a blog of it
For all my best friends to see
On the internet
Take me away from
The things that make me love
Take me away from
The things that sing of fun
And upset my blood
And then set my phasers to fail
And blow me to oblivion
