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Drag Me AroundNur Ein XVI
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Drag Me Around
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Entry from Drag Me Around in Nur Ein XVI.

Song must bridge your Round 0 and Round 1 songs

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Drag Me Around
Berkeley Social Scene

Liner Notes: Our round 0 song, Semiprecious, was from the perspective of the dog Precious of the movie The Silence of the Lambs, and is owned by its villain. Precious felt a bit down about things as his owner was spending ever more time on his gruesome hobby. In our round 1 song, Pareidolia, the narrator's romantic partner was feeling paranoid and upset - convinced they saw some scary person down at the train station. The narrator was convinced their partner had gone off the deep end with these fears. Here, in round 2, we have this narrator lamenting that their romantic partner (ie, the narrator from round 1) drags them around all over town without taking the time to understand them, including how fragile they are from being previously attacked and institutionalized. They even went to see The Silence of The Lambs, which really was a bad idea. And if you didn't know, Belleview was a well-known psychiatric hospital in NYC.

So, with the bridge of this round put in the right spot of the timeline....
o Round 0 - character from a scary movie
o Round 2 - character 1 explodes, this inappropriate scary movie showing pushes them over the edge
o Round 1 - character 2 sees that character 1 is going off the deep end, describes their behavior back to them and lets them know that what they see in the world may not be there

Geech: drums, vocals, acoustic guitars
Glenny: electric guitars
Martin: bass

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This one was really all too much
I’ll be haunted for so long
The dog in the well, the guy in the mask
Don’t you know, everything was wrong

I hid my eyes from the screen
I was shaken to the core
Women killed and skinned to make a dress
I just can’t anymore

You drag me around to these movies I don’t wanna see
You drag me around to these places I don’t wanna be
You drag me around without thinking how I feel
You drag me around, around and around

Why don’t you remember my story
Man I told it all before
I was attacked three years ago
At the threshold of my door

Now I am always wondering if
I see things that aren’t there
Maybe that man is following me
I’ve got to stay aware

You drag me around to do these things I don’t wanna do
You drag me around without thinking anything through
You drag me around without having just a clue
You drag me around, around and around

The weight can get so heavy
at times I even start to crack
I spent a month in Belleview
And sometimes I need to go back

You drag me around to these things I don’t wanna see
You drag me around to these places I don’t wanna be
You drag me around without thinking how I feel
You drag me around, around and around

You drag me around to do these things I don’t wanna do
You drag me around without thinking anything through
You drag me around without having just a clue
You drag me around, around and around

Reviews

2 posted notes

j$

Forum post

like the vaguely post-punk direction. Can't decide whether it's pretty catchy or slightly clunky. Both, probably.

JonPorobil

Forum post

It was pretty clear to me how this connected to your "Pareidolia," but I didn't get the connection to your "Semiprecious" until I read your liner notes. Honestly, I think it's a bit of a stretch, but hey, credit for effort. You had one of the harder pairs of songs to find a link between. You're rocking kind of a bar band vibe on this one, and it's a little more ramshackle than some previous BSS songs. I think the lead vocal is either a touch too high in the mix, or needs a little bit of EQ tamping, because it sticks out a little too much. I recommend that very cautiously, because it's at least as common to hear songs where the lead vocal gets buried, and you don't want to overcompensate, but it's tough for me to focus on where the music is guiding my ear behind the vocals at some points in the song. I also think the lead vocal lands flat on several notes in the verse, which isn't helping matters. Also, when I listen on headphones, I hear a few spots where something was cut for an edit. Most notably it sounds like the drum part is clipped between the first chorus and second verse. This wasn't apparent to me when I was listening on my studio monitors or car speakers, so it didn't factor into my rankings, but if you want to revisit this song later, that's something to look at in the mix.

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