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Everyone's Dying

from Artified by TestTubeBaby

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This was the first piece of music I started on after completing my last album. Initially an orchestral piece, it was interesting, but too similar to some other pieces I’ve composed through the years. The title comes from the fact that when I was composing it, I was acutely aware of the deteriorating health of a number of family members, friends and colleagues.

Through the months, I tried “messing up” this piece, but it just became less and less interesting through that process. It had a few sets up lyrics that I layered into it and then demolished (though you can still hear remnants of them). Finally one day I threw down the organ and bass lines on it and then it started asking for some new lyrics, which I wrote… very dubious, again, of how they might work out. My doubt waylaid doing anything with them for a while. When I finally recorded them, they felt clunky and disjoint.. but over time and with minimal tweaking, it seemed to me that “clunky and disjoint” was kind of the right mood for the moment.

I never imagined I’d sing a lyric like “Everything’s gonna be alright.” There is something tongue-in-cheek about that line here, but it also doesn’t ring disingenuous. Same with the line “Just find your passion/And follow it/And you’ll never doubt a thing.” I mean, you’ll doubt plenty, but not your presence. And… what else is there?

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from Artified, released May 29, 2022

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TestTubeBaby Vancouver, British Columbia

Just walked
On a long slab of concrete
Probably hundreds of metric tons
To the store
Thinking about the similarities
And differences
Between me and a squirrel

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