Great song! Haven't heard anything so brilliant lately! You rock!

You have no idea the winter we've just weathered... literally and figuratively... or maybe you do.

so good to finally hear the finished work. It's like hearing it for the first time, yet it's infused with memories.

This is the 2nd track of my Song-a-Month online album release. 'Ruin Your Life' describes the unsolicited advice of a true friend - welcome or not. It morphs from a folky, droning acoustic verse to a rocking chorus, with a combination of my own rhythm designs and Paul Gonzalez' fantastic drumming. The string arrangement consists of heavily twisted Turkish orchestra samples and the real-deal cello stylings of Portland's amazing Skip Von Kuske. BUY IT at https://gum.co/ruin

Mixed by Jon Rezin; mastered by Jamal Ruhe; artwork by Joshua Homnick.

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Ruin Your Life

Smooth but transposed to the whole tone scale as favored by schoenberg

grooming, intoxication, fear of what it might mean.

recorded on an iphone in the evening on day 155 of Covid-19 isolation.

Lyrics:
Wind he captured the wind 
And bent it to his will 
He seemed storied 
He seemed stable 
'n the melodies he built 

He took me 
Yes he took me 
And he laid me in the dirt 
And he wrote his notes upon me 

Did it hurt?
Did it hurt? Mmmmm did it hurt?
Did it hurt? Did it hurt? Mmmmm did it hurt?

Music changes but ne’er does sin 
And I wonder if this could be the wind he’s piping in 
And the mystery is that I long and dread to see him again 

Waking he kept me waking  
every waking hour  
He's faking  
He has to  
Look at all these wild flowers  

He picked me  
Yes he picked me  
Then he laid me in the dirt  
And he wrote his notes upon me  

does it hurt? does it hurt? does it hurt?
Mmmmm did it hurt? did it hurt Mmmmm?
yes it hurt it hurts it hurt...

Which piper calls me to the Throne 
Will I stumble and crawl on my way home 
Music changes but ne’er does sin  
And I wonder if this could be the wind he’s piping in  
And the mystery is that I long to see him again 

Did it hurt? 
Did it hurt? Did it hurt? Mmmmm did it hurt? 
Did it hurt? Did it hurt?
Mmmmm did it hurt? Did it hurt?

Reed

Reed- Isolation Tape

'Canadian freak-magic for your ear-bones.' - Rainn Wilson

Ruin Your Life

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