NUR EIN
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4:04
Carte Blanche
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Jon Eric

Entry from Carte Blanche in Nur Ein XV.

Bond Theme

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Carte Blanche
by Jon Eric

The fires are burning brightly
And the sirens sound so clear
Tonight
With the violence mounting quickly,
Every conflict feels so near
Tonight

They'll place their gifts at your feet
And then burn you in effigy, effigy

How can you live
With a gun in your face
And the mutilated world inside your eye?
How can you stand
Anything in your way?
Either live carte blanche or die

There's a clarity that comes
From being so high off the ground
Up here
You can feel the brink of bedlam,
How we're all so tightly wound
Up here

Our moment of reckoning
Thanatos beckoning, beckoning

How can you live
With a gun in your face
And the mutilated world inside your eye?
How can you stand
Anything in your way?
Live carte blanche

Throwing your life away
For something you don't understand
Building to something great
A master plan

How can you live
With a gun in your face
And the mutilated world inside your eye?
How can you stand
Anything in your way?
Either live carte blanche or die

How can you live
With a knife at your throat
And the scars of every injury in mind?
How can you stand
Anything in your way?
Either live carte blanche
Or die
Or die

Reviews

2 posted notes

GlennCase

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You absolutely nailed the challenge with a top tier composition! This has the proper feel, and kudos for having the courage to tackle those notes at the end that you may have no business trying to hit, but you actually did fairly well overall! Mix is a bit messy, and doesn't feel cohesive. The vocals are noticeably too loud at spots.

LYRICS: [GOOD] 2 points
STRUCTURE: [GOOD] 2 points
PERFORMANCE: [OKAY] 1 point
CONCEPT/CHALLENGE: [GOOD] 2 points
DYNAMICS/MIX: [OKAY] 1 point
SCORE: 8 out of 10

vowlvom

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Your chorus melody is the one I find getting stuck in my head the most, which is a good sign. I generally think this is excellently written and performed, albeit held back slightly by the mix - your vocal feels like it shifts between too quiet and too loud in the mix, and there's a roomy feel to it that doesn't quite fit the song IMO - not sure if that's the recording or the reverb your're using. There's also one annoying glitch in the recording at 1:42 which I'm not going to hold against my ranking because it could be some encoding glitch or something but I hope you do a mix that fixes it! Nearly all of my complaints are technical though, in terms of the actual writing and performance my only real issue is that the occasional use of repeated words ("beckoning, beckoning") feel slightly awkward to me. On the whole I thought this was one of the strongest takes on the challenge and I enjoyed it a lot.

Jon Eric - Carte Blanche | Nur Ein