This was written for the r/wearethemusicmakers monthly contest for July 2021, where we all made a song based off that image of the bus there.

I'm pretty happy with the arrangement but this recording is really rough. The pieces took a while to come together, and despite having a whole month I did all the vocal tracking on the very last day, which was just a really terrible idea.

Lyrics:

They say
That I have to work today
But i think I'll stay
And watch the waves

They say
You've only got one life to waste
So i think I'll take
My time today

If i could tell you what i really mean,
All my component atoms say let me at 'em,
Today is the day i will take,
This time, it isn't yours, it's mine

Well it ain't a revolution
But i'll keep my head high and dry
Yeah, i'll keep my head if I
Play it off right
I can play it off right, right?

Tried to sell me on some bullshit, though
A cog incognizant of a rolling stone,
I said i only go where there's roads
And i keep my eyes on those roads

Well it ain't a revolution
But i'll keep these wheels spinning
Yeah, i'll keep spinning my wheels
Even when it's not enough,
And it's never enough
 
They say,
That i have to work today
But i think i'll stay
And watch the waves

They say
You've only got one life to waste
So i think i'll take
My time today

They say,
That i have to work tomorrow,
Well,
Okay

The Waves

Molasses Onassis was Will Smith, Josh Mills, Aaron Holm and myself. This song was recorded in 2010. It was meant to be released on a 6 song EP which never saw the light of day. All recording was done in my bedroom.

Molasses Onassis - Circumstance Road

This track was recorded in a bedroom. It has since been remastered, hard. This track will remain for posterity for a little while.

Molasses Onassis - Saucy Pickles Original

Boleras Sevillanas, as performed by Paul Witkamp and William Smith in Letterman Studio, June 2014. 

William Smith and Paul Witkamp - Boleras Sevillanas

Cantar Montanes, as performed by Paul Witkamp and William Smith in Letterman Studio, June 2014.

William Smith and Paul Witkamp - Cantar Montanes

This track was recorded in Fall of 2011 in a bedroom with one microphone, one Tape Deck Robot, and a handful of the sauciest pickles to ever grace Muncie, IN.


Molasses Onassis - Saucy Pickles (Re-mastered)

The apple of my eye is the one that fell on Isaac Newton's head.

Tape Deck Robot - Apples (No Vocals)

TAPE DECK ROBOT

Amidst these right angles
Exists something almost natural
Which is to say that it is inhuman

(And though we've come so far
There's still so far to go)

Apples Instrumental

TAPE DECK ROBOT

Skipping like a scratched disk,
Over and over-analytic, sick
Thoughts spinning 'round my head

Scratched Disk Instrumental

Kept short, so you don't lose your bone density.

Anti-Gravity

Why did Dr. Lovelace insist on bringing a specimen back? That damn corpse will be the end of us...

These spores can't be contained. We saw what they do.

I... I can feel them. I swear I can feel them, growing slowly... inside me.

Only a matter of time now...

Never Coming Home

Tape Deck Robot records.
Tape Deck Robot plays back.

(Producer. Audio Engineer.
Musician. Artist.)

Tape Deck Robot

Popular tracks