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(One Take) Spooky - Mike Sharpe Cover

I wrote this song while enrolled in LIT155, Vampire Literature at UC Santa Cruz. It's based off the movie Martin(1978), which I think provides a great interpretation of a non-magical, modern day vampire.

Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Am
Martin was a mountain man
who lived in castle high

E
born into the family of count 
he lived his life

Am
but soon the day would come that
                         
Martin's head began to
B7
crack
E
And very soon the looney toon
would be found on the tracks
 
[Break]
Am E Am
 









[Verse 2]
Am
Martin was a highwayman
 
a traveler by trade
E
spent many days and sleepless nights
 
in endless valley haze
Am
he tried the towns so carefully
                B7
evaded by the lights
E
a thoughtful motion symphony
Am
that ends in thoughtless bites
 


[Break]
Am E








 


[Verse 3]
Am               E                  
Martin said he's 84 
Am
but looks like 22
Am             E
Doesn't often say a word
                          
and when he does 
       Am
they're few
B7
the puller of the curtain, snake oil salesman's pen
E                                               
Martin doesn't know 
         Am
himself when he will kill again
C
Drawn to haunting images that bleach and black his mind












[Chorus]
G
triggered by retention repetition undefined
C
nightmares of ancient history and stories of the vine
B7/E                         E               Am
Martin plays the radio and steps in perfect time
 
G
triggered by retention repetition undefined
C
nightmares of ancient history and stories of the vine
B7/E                         E               Am
Martin plays the radio and steps in perfect time
 
G
triggered by retention repetition undefined
C
nightmares of ancient history and stories of the vine
B7/E                         E               Am
Martin plays the radio and steps in perfect time
 
[Break]
Am E Am B7 E Am






[Verse 4]
Am
Martin dialed the stations
 
reaching for a reaching hand
E
an unlead thought like he forgot
 
would echo through the lands
Am
the historyless mystery
                 B7
no one would understand
    E
was killing and instilling fear
 
while predating the man
 
[Break]
Am E Am
 



















[Verse 5]
Am
From far away DJ would say
 
the words he thought were wise
E
and Martin answered thoughtfully
 
a fiction in the eyes
B7
of listeners so dreadfully
 
entranced by words and act
E
so one by one the bodies run
                       Am
black velvet red and slack

[Break]
Am E Am B7 E Am

Am E Am B7 E Am

C G C B7/E E Am

Am E













 
[Verse 6]
Am                                           
good cuda kept his 
E      
distance from the
Am
discourse of today
Am                                                
a good god-fearing 
E 
preacher in the past 
Am
and in the way
B7/E
the little town of aged crowns would all show up to see
E                                                       
the word of god in doubtless light which
Am
none would disagree
 
[Break]
Am E Am
 





















                                              
[Verse 7]
He set his household
           E  
 holily with garlic on
    Am
 the frame
                                                Am
prepared to host the 
E 
devil's ghost who
Am
shared the family name
B7/E
the bloodline of a vampire that just nearly missed his veins
E                                                       
good cuda must enforce

remorse and end the
         Am
families pains
 























[Chorus 2]
C
A godful place the city face
 
was covered in the times
G
the leper's cross and
 
steely moss were growing with the vines
 
C
trapped inside a legend
C
as a monster of a man
B7/E
a demon's smote by satans coat
       C      E     Am
when spirit's in demand

Martin (Original)

Moody's Mood for Love - James Moody Cover

What Gives (Original)

Moon River - Breakfast At Tiffany's, Audrey Hepburn Cover

My Jean - Mac Demarco Cover

Go without
'Til the need seeps in
You're low, anymore
Collect your novel petals for the stem
And glow
Glow
Melt and flow
Eviscerate your fragile frame
And spill it out on the ragged floor
A thousand different versions of yourself
And if the old guard still offend
They got nothing left on which you depend
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood
And off with their heads
Jump from the hook
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise
See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life
And they got no right
As sure as you have eyes
They got no right
Just put yourself in my new shoes
And see that I do what I do
Because the old guard still offend (Their pudgy hearts and shiny hands)
They've got nothing left on which we depend
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood
And off with their heads
Jump from the hook
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise
That you despise
That you despise
That you despise
That you despise

Last Christmas (Original) / Sleeping Lesson (The Shins) Medley

Ram On - Paul & Linda McCartney Cover

Sometimes I need to get away
Somewhere no one can hear me screaming
I make myself a secret place
I (tear/break/fall) apart to fight this(demons,feeling,dreaming)

Falling into the sound
Rising up from the earth
Running my heart around
Sometimes it has to hurt

Away

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Spring Dew (lyric version)

A Ready Gun Sketch

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I'm An Alcoholic - Dent May Cover

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Cover of Amy Winehouse's Help Yourself
Lyrics:
 When I walk in your shoes
I understand a man confused
They much too big, but I don't care
I feel the weight your shoulders bear
Darling they empathize
Looking through your bloodshot eyes
And I know you, you're so frustrated
Above we all become what we once hated
Besides, nobody can be that wise

I can't help you if you won't help yourself
(Help yourself, help yourself)
No, I can't help you if you don't help yourself
(Help yourself, no no no)
You can only get so much from someone else
(Get so much from, yeah)
I can't help you if you won't help yourself
(You can't help yourself)

You got a degree in philosophy (philosophy)
So, you think you're cleverer than me ('cause you're so smart)
But, I'm not just some drama queen (drama queen)
'Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been
So, what do you expect from me (what do you want)
To hold your head above the sea (keep you high and dry)
And carry you even though you're bigger
'Cause don't you know you crush my tiny figure
And anyway, we're still so young (yeah, I'm so young)
And this isn't yesterday

I can't help you if you won't help yourself
(I can't help you)
No, I can't help you if you don't help yourself
(You won't help yourself)
You can only get so much from someone else
I can't help you if you won't help yourself

You might be twenty-five but in my mind
I see you at sixteen years oh most of the time
And I'm, I'm just a child and you're full grown
And no I'm nothing like I've ever known yeah
You are like nothing that I ever knew

Help Yourself - Amy Winehouse Cover

Well I guess you're just going to sit there and die then? Is that how this is all supposed to Work?

Lysergic Bliss - Of Montreal Cover

Always more on the way :D

...

equipment:
TASCAMDP008 - digital track recorder
YAMAHA REFACE CS - polyphonic synthesizer
Taylor 214ce - acoustic guitar

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Tony Coan

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