LEMONS

I might add words to this in the future, but for now I just needed to upload it so I can stop paying attention to it.

DESTINY

The Bread Will Rise

MIDNIGHT

Originally conceived for a song battle I occasionally have with my friend Sir Thomas, this was the first track I created after downloading a large amount of free orchestral VSTs through Spitfire Labs and SINE Player. There exists a version of this track with vocals, but the lyrics are based on an inside joke between the two of us and I felt the song would work better without vocals as an ending for the album. The heavy synth in the third section would go on to be one I used for Zen Diagram and look forward to including in future tracks. This project took 2 hours and 19 minutes to finish.

Eclectic

The Ocean

The longest track on the album and the longest track I’ve ever produced. Initially it was just the sort of circusy part with the arpeggios and goofy walking bassline and I wasn’t very fond of it, I just needed to do something in FL Studio as I hadn’t produced in some time. After a while I began adding more, and more, and more, and it grew and grew on me. The guitar I use is an LTD MH-400 and it has an absolutely stellar tone for solos. Combined with Guitar Rig 6 to get the distortion going and it created something magical. This project took 17 hours and 23 minutes to complete.

Pinnacle

This track was the last project to be started and was only initially conceived 3 weeks before the album was uploaded. The initial plan was for a piano and acoustic guitar duet, but I ended up adding in several ambient effects like the crackling fireplace, the rainstorm, and the crowd chatter, and felt that acoustic guitar would add a bit too much clutter. The SFX were all sourced from copyright free videos on YouTube. I attempted to record my cat Geraldine for the purring and meowing but she wouldn’t cooperate while the mic was recording. Oh well. This project took 2 hours and 56 minutes to complete.

Home

Originally a beat titled ROW, this track was made while livestreaming on Twitch and taking audience suggestions. My friend Justin suggested the idea of using Seth Rogen’s laughs while my friend Ash suggested I rap about tacos. The initial beat was finished over about a 5 hour and 30 minute stream, and the lyrics and vocal recording themselves didn’t get finished until the day of uploading the album. This project took 8 hours and 39 minutes to complete, and was the very last song to be finished for the album.

Out Getting Tacos with my Homie Seth Rogen Lyrics:

Verse 1:

Building up a hunger, building up a thirst
Wanna stuff my gullet til my stomach full to burst
‘Bout to make some noise, Botany be on the verse
Ridin’ round with the boys, funny people in a hearse
We been lookin’ for the place with the best carnitas
To get a little taste and some mamacitas
Couple freaks gettin’ geeked, got the sweetest chiba
Barbacoa beef cheek, three feet of cotija

See ya, sliding on to the next spot
Gotta get a torta full of carne asade
Green Hornet got his thoughts on those empanadas
Scoring salsa and chips like Erik Estrada
De nada, lemme have some more elote
Oh babe, saffron arroz, frijoles
Hold me, I’m full up on guacamole
Gotta make a little space-a for them cervezas

Rogen got the tacos with the haddock
Cilantro doin’ magic, a little pickled radish
Onions so thin lookin’ like a dime edge
Finish with a squeeze, know you need the lime wedge
Measurin’ more Houseplant in a Swisher
Pot man doin’ pottery and motion pictures
Top lads gettin’ Superbad with a mixture
Of horchata, Kahlua, sippin’ elixir

Me and Dirty Randy on foot patrol
Strolling to the next watering hole to strike gold
Queso, it ain’t cost a peso, case closed
Picante like Pace makin’ my face glow, ohhhhh
Let’s keep the party goin’
Meet up with the frat pack, get the bottles flowin’
Order up of nachos before we get smokin’
I’m out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen

Chorus:

Out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen
Out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen
Out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen
Out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen

Verse 2:

Next stop on the Pineapple Express
El Taco Riendo, my friends know, impressed
By the texture, the flavor of al pastor
Before we out the door you’re gonna order more
Got the pollo rojo in a fresh tortilla
Pico de gallo, just what I need, ya
Better prepare yourself when you’re in the area
The consommé is consummate when you get the birria

It ain’t a mystery
When the crew riding through your food is history
Leave a taqueria flash with a stack of cash
And the fridges all skint, turning grass to ash
Burning sesh with Seth, oh we fresh to death
But now this is the end, let me catch my breath
Clout nettin’, the potholes got my only whip broken
While out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen

Chorus:

Out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen
Out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen
Out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen
Order up of nachos before we get smokin’
I’m out gettin’ tacos with my homie Seth Rogen

Out Getting Tacos with my Homie Seth Rogen

The fourth project that I started for this album and the first track I’ve ever recorded where all instruments are actual instruments instead of digital plugins. I recorded everything but the vocals in a single night back in January without any idea of what I was going to be playing going into the office. The lyrics themselves took until May to actually finish writing, going through several drafts before settling on the final product. This project took 7 hours to complete.

Hope Don’t Float Lyrics:

Verse 1:

Hope don’t float
Else I’d be on my feet
The radio glow
Same song on repeat
Sun ain’t shining
Moonlight guides me home
Running sideways
Ain’t no way to roam

Chorus:

But the clock is ticking away too fast
Spent too much time trying to fix the past
Only to lose
But there’s nothing I won’t do
That it takes to get back to you

Verse 2:

Cause I am ever the fool
And I don’t know any other way
So don’t play these notes
Don’t read these words
Don’t hear what they say

Chorus:

But the tide is rising a little too quick
Spent too much time trying the same old tricks
No way to win
Left wondering where you’ve been

But the clock is ticking away too fast
Spent too much time trying to fix the past
Only to lose
But there’s nothing I won’t do

Hope Don't Float

I’ve had the idea for this song in my head for several years now but could never figure out just how to get it sounding the way I wanted. By coincidence I ended up plunking a few notes down to test out some things I had read about developing simple synths, and they became the melody and bassline heard during the verses of the track. I wasn’t sure how to work in the chorus because the simple beat didn’t have the drum sound I was looking for, but luckily when I downloaded the free VSTs through Spitfire LABS there was a perfect fit in their percussion sounds that filled out the whole vibe for what I needed. After hearing them laugh one day while working on the track, I asked my friend Kit to provide the audio clip heard at the very beginning of the song. This project took 11 hours and 27 minutes to complete.

Bubblegum Lyrics:

(lighthearted chuckle)

Verse 1:

Oh me, oh my
It would seem you’re past your prime
Yes you’re like writing in the sky
That’s fading out

And I’ve arrived
Oh I’ve come to take your pride
Yes I’ll defeat you in your
Final title bout

You’re quite the fool (the fool)
If you think you could defeat me
You will never, ever beat me
You’re a tool

Without a use (no use)
When we step into the ring
The only thing that you’ll be feeling
Is abuse

Chorus:

You seem alarmed
You’ve come to harm
And now the table’s turning
Your will to win
Has hit the wind
And it’s no longer burning

The fight is won
Cause you’re a knife
And I’m a gun
And I’m fresh out of
Bubblegum
You’d better turn your tail
And run away

Verse 2:

It’s all a game (a game)
And the ringing of the bell
Will make you feel like you’re in Hell
Among the flames

And all your fame (your fame)
Will not help you out today
No, no, my fist will make you
Hang your head in shame

Chorus

Bubblegum

I had been listening to a lot of soundtrack music for TV shows, specifically the Westworld and Severance soundtracks, and I wanted to do something in the same vein. I had also recently downloaded a large amount of free orchestral VSTs that created much more realistic piano, string, and orchestral instrument sounds than I had been used to working with. I spent an afternoon diving headfirst into my work and this is the result. This project took 4 hours and 6 minutes to complete.

The Forest

This was the first project I worked on when deciding to complete an album back in December 2021, and also the second track to be completely finished. Though it sounds like it was meticulously thought, the electric piano melody line during the verse sections was made using the FL Studio randomizer, which I hit on accident when trying to quantize a badly played C# minor chord. The blips and weird wah wah sounding noises underneath the chaos at the end of the song were created by humming into a microphone and then adding heavy distortion and auto-tune. This project took 15 hours and 14 minutes to complete.

Guillotine Lyrics:

(ominous laughter)

Verse:

You’ve got to move it
Got to groove it
Got to get on up
And do it

You can feel it
You can wheel it
You can reel it in
And deal it

If you try it
And you like it
You can get on out
And buy it

Cause it’s
Money money money
When you’re searching
For this honey

X2

Chorus:

GO!

X2

Verse

Chorus

Bridge:

I wanna go wild

x32

Guillotine

I came up with this little guitar ditty earlier in 2022 and had a rough recording in place for album listenings when trying to decide on a track order and working on mastering, however the actual song heard on the album was recorded the day before the album was uploaded to Soundcloud, on June 5th 2022. The percussive noises heard are just me slapping my acoustic guitar. There was minimal work to be done in FL Studio for this, only adding effects and the steam train sound I sourced from YouTube, so the project time is listed at 30 minutes though with recording both my early version and my finished product I would put it closer to 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Westbound

Originally titled “Goose”, the beat for this track was the second project I started on for the album way back in December 2021. For the main part of the song I wanted the beat to feel a little uneasy but still pleasant to listen to, so I went with a chord progression that completely ignores the root chord of the key it’s in, making it seem unresolved. Though I started it in December, I didn’t actually record the lyrics until May 2022 as I couldn’t figure out exactly how to work some of the rhyme schemes. It’s about butts. This project took 16 hours and 33 minutes.

Booty Lyrics:

Chorus:

Drop that beat make it sound so moody
Make em move feet like a young Doug Judy
On the high seas tryna’ catch some cooties
Y’all know me I’m in love with the booty, oh oh

Nose turned up so snooty
Lookin’ for tang but my name ain’t Pooty
Up in them cheeks, a millennial foody
Y’all know me I’m in love with the booty, ooh ooh

New lifeguard on duty
Wanna get you draped in my favorite hoodie
Everything I make so clean so groovy
Y’all know me I’m in love with the booty, ooh ooh

Life just like a movie
Sittin’ in shade while I’m blazin’ a doobie
Up in them cheeks, a millennial foody
Y’all know me I’m in love with the booty

Verse 1:

Avast ye mates, ahoy
G marks the spot where you find the boy
Botany, the boatswain, the buccaneer
Giving no quarter ‘cept to butts and rears
Been a rough go but the dust has cleared
Tryna’ turn my luck, ain’t nut in years
Weighing my anchor to sup and cheers
With a supple rump and a couple beers

Got a letter of marque at the bar tonight
Gonna parlay every sweet lass in sight
Tellin’ this wench I’m hung like Jack Ketch
Got a peg third leg and it’s dynamite
Been mutinied and feel real marooned
Be true to me and get these dubloons
I’m a swashbucklin’ picaroon
Carousin’ around from night to noon

Goin’ overboard and I start to drown
Three sheets to the wind and I run aground
On shore leave tryna’ hit the damn town
Lookin’ for a strumpet to blow the man down
Got my eyes on your treasure chest
Forget the crows, this a pleasure nest
But ain’t no landlubber takin’ my plunder
I will heave-this-ho right in the bilge water

Out here tryna’ find my Black Pearl
Unfurl my jib, get ribbed, and set sail
Just one glance and my timber shivers
She can walk my plank, I would swim her river
I’m a jolly rodger when the lights go out
It’s all what pirate life’s about
Never been one to be so studious
Y’all know me I’m in love with the gluteus

Chorus

(Land ho, ha ha ha ha ha)

Verse 2:

Problems with my options
I ain’t got nowhere to run
I been lost inside my conscience
‘Nother obstacle to jump
All this acid in my basket
Has a grasp upon my thoughts
And the fiendin’ make my dreams
Feel so surreal it’s like I’m drunk

Wonderin’ where I’m goin’ tonight
Tryna’ feed my appetite
Wanna hit the cities but I’m
Sittin’ ‘til the feeling’s right
Probably staying home again
Waiting on this medicine
Hoping that it fixes me
At least enough to call a friend

Wishing for a lover
Want a honey call me witty
It don’t matter think you’re chubby
We could fuck each other skinny
You got issues that’s a given girl
We’re all a little different
But I’m honest when I’m offerin’
To come and help you fix it

Booty

This track was surprisingly difficult to finish. It started off much more upbeat and happy, then slowly as more additions were made and earlier parts were removed it took on a much more melancholy vibe. It went through several revisions, one of which being the removal of an extensive rock part at the end of the track complete with drum fills and recorded electric guitar parts, but it just didn’t fit the vibe and I went with the acoustic guitar fade out that you hear in the finished product. This project took 11 hours and 4 minutes.

Zen Diagram

This was the third project I ended up starting for the album and the first one that was completely finished. It started off as just the rising scale with the hard saw synth at the end of the song, simply as a way to figure out more of how to apply modes, in this case Lydian on D#. Everything started to come together and really had a sort of uneasy feeling to it, hence the addition of the background sort of wispy dissonant arpeggiators that fade in and out. This project took 17 hours and 13 minutes to complete.

Inner Workings

This is not a song, this is a book report.

Space Botany - The 5laughterhouse Jive

Flavor Science. Space Botany. 5400.

Lyrics:
I roll up in my hover Cadillac
So low key it's like I'm undercover, matter-of-fact
I got a prosti-bot for you and your brother back at home
Two big electric titties filled with silicone, ohh

So go ahead grind gears, push buttons
Have a cheers, eat computer chips, get your glutton on
It goes great with lustin' for that rusty bottomed fat one
If you'da dropped more dollars you'd get hours with Ms. Platinum

But now I gotta jet son, lest him get cross
Talkin' 'bout the top of the trim, the head boss
An old Eagle 1600 pimpin' them best broads
Hard to believe he still runs off of MS-DOS

And they got the best cost, come try us
Don't stick your hard drive in that bitch you'll get a virus
From here to Taipei they's the only ladies I trust
And when you finish don't forget to wipe off the pie crust

Ohhhhhhh let's hit the bars
Pint of magnesium freezin' and make it large
Sit next to a girl with curls that got my eyes glaring
A coy lookin' android who thinks in binary

Oh damn, check out her circuitry
It's perfect, I want this chick to come work with me
But her flirt's gettin' berserk with jealousy
And tellin' his mercs to start committin' felonies

Hell no, like I'ma let them be the boss of me
They messin' with the raw, ruthless, robotic Botany
After leavin' them toothless I grab the hotty
And bounce en-route to my house for somethin' naughty

She's riding shotty and she really got me goin'
Her top is fallin' off and her CPU is showin'
Slow trot shuffle inside, say "You comin'"
A robot hustler's life in 5400

In the bedroom lay her down, she's somethin'
Back crackin' from pneumatic actuator pumpin'
Reachin' clock skew from the velocity of humpin'
Seepin' cock spew upon the tops of her pumpkins

Hop out the hay, leave her where she sleep mode
Just another day, just another crazy freak ho
Gotta say so far been a mighty fine weekend
On my way to blaze, still early in the evenin'

Currently I am yearnin' for some cabbage
The green I demand it, swiftly on a platter
Blue Dream, Mad Hatter, find seeds? Don't matter
We recycle with the hydro in my attic

Step out on the patio, phasers set to blunted
Initiate vacuum intake function
Smoke hot combustible sweet leaf lovin'
A robot hustler's life in 5400

Flavor Science and Space Botany - "5400"

A song a wrote for my Curse of Strahd group.

Lyrics:
Miles away from home, the skyline hazy and gray
What brought you here alone, or set your path astray?
Your soul is slipping, your mind is gripping at what remains

As you walk into the valley, the belly of the beast
Are you just another tally, or the famine for the feast?
The fear is in you, yet you continue ill at ease

Now that you've come this far
Where do you think you are and where do you stand?
You're hiding away your scars
Who do you think you are in this land?

I'm always watching, I see your trouble, turns, and twists
My hilt could use another notching, and you're high up on my list
You're looking guarded, I see your heart and its true wish
You'd like to find your chance and take it, you'll never make it past the mist

Now that you've come this far
Where do you think you are and where do you stand?
You're hiding away your scars
Who do you think you are in this land?

Now that you've come this far
Who do you think you are?

Space Botany

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