See-Man-Ski
Liner Notes

Well I did not expect to get this in. I have struggled with it all week and was close to just throwing in the towel but on Friday I decided to hell with it I'm just going to have a go and throw as much as it I can. Admittedly I just went preset mad with it but I really like the result. I have taken a risk, I didn't put the title in the song at all. I just felt it didn't need it and slipping it in somewhere was unnecessary and would cheapen it. I think I have taken the challenge on and that's what I'm going with.

The premise of the lyrics started off with, I miss you, I see you face in other people (quick fetch a bucket). However, I decided to go dark. I have been reading some crime thrillers and following the Song Maps book I read by Simon Hawkins I went for the role map. The first is from the perspective of a caught kidnapper, sitting in his cell longing to see his victim again and seeing their face in all they see. The second verse is about the victim reliving the moments and fearing the captor, seeing their face in everyone they see.

In my attempt to become a better song writer I have also been reading Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison. The idea that caught my eye was the idea that length of the stresses in a phrase and rhyming scheme decide the stability, so get rid of a few stresses and remove things where people expect rhymes will make it unstable. I removed some rhymes in the final cut to give it that effect.

Just to make things interesting I decided to employ a technique I learnt from last Nur Ein where you mix time signatures. I can't remember the fancy pants name for it though.

Finally, the backing vocals were done in a field, I went for a walk with my trusty Tascam DP-006, found a field and sang away.

If you watched that, I am very very sorry!

I peer out of a window
waiting at the door
I can't decide why I do this

I feed the obsessions
day by day
longing for a moment
that's long since
washed away

when they turn around
then I tell myself
that I'll see your face
instead of someone else

I cower in the corner
looking for an out
I find little comfort
in the walls that surround

I feel these eyes
burning
twisting the knife
and cherishing it all

when they turn around
then I tell myself
that I'll see your face
instead of someone else

when you turn around