The Script - The Man Who Cant Be Moved ( cover )

My, if this one didn't take a long time to finish. I started this a year ago, around the 20th of December 2012. Why did it take so long? I had it 90% finished that next January, but I didn't get to the last passage of the choral section in time to have it finished before school started back up. So, the vocals had to wait. It wasn't until just recently that I was able to sit down with this song and really complete it.

But it's here, now, and I love that. This one's been a long time coming and features some of my best mixing to date. I had this mix near perfect months before I ever considered buying monitors, which is amazing to me. With the acquisition of more useful plugins, I put a little more critical listening work into the mix and the result is something I can call pleasing!

I'm more than excited to finally be able to release this. Many people requested it when I decided to cover something last year, and it's great to feel like it's worth something.

Production notes may come eventually, but for now I'll just run down the notables.

I used PreSonus's wonderful Studio One v.2 Pro to mix, utilizing its included compressors, EQs, and reverberators for the most part. Native Instruments' Guitar Rig 4 played a huge role in this like it does most of my music, being the tone shaper for the guitar/bass tracks and my key echo effect. I used Waves' Kramer Master Tape to fatten the sound in a good many places, and the Puigtec passive EQs as sweetening filters. Ozone 5 served as the master dynamics processor and topped everything off.

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[lyrics]


looking up at the sky in the night
all the stars they shine so bright
overdosing at the speed of light
traversing the multiverse tonight
flying round in the deep dark galaxy
mixing ket with methamphetamines
i just want one look at the moon
i promise ill be back by noon

i never meant to hurt you
i just love drugs so much
i promise i wont desert you
but i probably wont stay in touch
i didnt think i’d hit this low
shooting heroin mixing that with blow
a young dope fiend 18 and alone
a lost junkie barely skin & bone


thats the highs and the lows
feel the warmth feel the cold
at the atm fiending for money
she dont understand she finds my pain funny
got a dirty rig filled up with brown
deep inside my veins, relapse and drown
then i nod out feel so euphoric
listen to the noise its so symphonic
afghan cream got me grinning
opiate addict pupils constricting
thats the darkness thats trapped inside
devil on my shoulder till the day i die

i never meant to hurt you
i just love drugs so much
i promise i wont desert you
but i probably wont stay in touch
i didnt think i’d hit this low
shooting heroin mixing that with blow
a young dope fiend 18 and alone
a lost junkie barely skin & bone

im losing my mind now
i know my time is up
scratching hard at my skin
thats the feeling i love so much
borderline personality
im a self destructive tragedy
blood dripping in the sink
sliced my neck and wrists 
ive left the brink

i never meant to hurt you
i just love drugs so much
i promise i wont desert you
but i probably wont stay in touch
i didnt think i’d hit this low
shooting heroin mixing that with blow
a young dope fiend 18 and alone
a lost junkie barely skin & bone

a young dope fiend, eighteen & alone [gaxillic]

Going back to the corner where I first saw you
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I'm not gonna move
Got some words on cardboard, got your picture in my hand
Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am

Some try to hand me money, they don't understand
I'm not broke I'm just a broken hearted man
I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do
How can I move on when I've been in love with you

'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street

So I'm not moving
I'm not moving

Policeman says son you can't stay here
I said there's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go

'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you see me waiting for you on the corner of the street

So I'm not moving
I'm not moving
I'm not moving
I'm not moving

People talk about the guy
Who's waiting on a girl, oh whoa
There are no holes in his shoes
But a big hole in his world

Maybe I'll get famous as the man who can't be moved
And maybe you won't mean to but you'll see me on the news
And you'll come running to the corner
'Cause you'll know it's just for you

I'm the man who can't be moved
I'm the man who can't be moved

'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we meet
Oh, you see me waiting for you on a corner of the street

So I'm not moving
('Cause if one day you wake up, find that you're missing me)
I'm not moving
(And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be)
I'm not moving
(Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet)
I'm not moving
(Oh, you see me waiting for you on a corner of the street)

Going back to the corner where I first saw you
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I'm not gonna move



The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved

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I'm starting to enjoy music more, which means I'll most likely be trying more than I had been. Thanks to my new inspiration.

The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved

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