This is the original concept recording for my song 'Trebuchet'. It was recorded in Garageband on my roommates Macbook in 2009 with my voice and a Morgan Monroe acoustic/electric guitar. The song has a much different and more developed feel to it now. For example, the picking in the intro is different, the whole song is faster, and there's more lead guitar to it. The lyrics deal with the various ways I was throwing my life away at the time, and I knew it the whole time: including chemical dependancy and lack of faith in myself. At some point, I'll get around to doing a more current version of it.

The lyrics are as follows:

They left us sleeping by the river knowing when we woke, it'd be to funeral bells.
They left us standing in solitude.
There are so few familiar faces in Hell.

And I'm as remorseless as the day I left the womb.
You asked what I wanted, but I took just what I need from you.
And with crippled hands, I cast this blame without a hint of the truth.
But it'll have to do.

They spoke in a million tiny whispers, and with each word, they pulled another string
To watch the marionettes proceed-
Proceed to sway and to swing.

And they're as relentless as the day I crawled out of this bed,
With broken arms and scars across a hollow chest.
But with these chemical filters always keeping me in check, 
It's a little easier to forgive and forget.

N.Schotte