It will hunte until it kills me one day....

thank you @heavyhorses for this song i heard it playing last of us (beside a few other songs with the wild west touch) and it was the best expirience

This is an idea for a community project that involves video game soundtrack remixes/reimaginings. I'm not super skilled at composition or arrangement, so finding a song that I could reasonably cover proved tricky. A good friend came through in a pinch with the idea to try and work with something from the Bastion soundtrack...leave it to him to give me an idea that's been staring me right in the face this whole time. >_<

I decided to try and cover the track "Spike in a Rail". I removed the electronic trip-hop percussion, changed the key slightly (guitar's tuned to BF#BF#BB), wrote some lyrics and vocals inspired by the game, and gave it an acoustic backwoods stomp. I didn't transcribe the guitar lines note for note, since I felt kind of impatient and didn't want to just burn time tracing the original. But I did try and carry over at least the simple, base feeling of the main riffs.

Lyrics:

Sitting in the ruins what's left of the city
Sitting in the ruins of an age gone by
Sitting in the ruins what's left of the city
No one left to say goodbye

No use to hold up the gates
the Rapture's come and it's far too late
No use to pick up the bricks
the world's all gone and it's past the end
No use putting spikes in the rails
the trains are all one-way rides to hell
No use it's gone to black
and what's the use of bringing it back

Spike In A Rail (Bastion Soundtrack Cover)

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Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs is the debut album by The Heavy Horses, the pseudonym under which Canadian musician Justin Mahoney writes and records songs about outlaws, angels, and murder. 

The album was recorded and mixed in Toronto by Laurence Currie (Amelia Curran/Wintersleep/The Once), and features Canadian talents including Andrew Collins (Creaking Tree String Quartet, The Foggy Hogtown Boys), Max Heineman (The Foggy Hogtown Boys), Christine Bougie (The Good Lovelies, Amy Millan), and Brad Kilpatrick (Hawksley Workman), among others.

﻿Steeped in tradition, and raised on a healthy diet of "the old country", The Heavy Horses are naturally drawn to writing in the same style of music, and make no excuses for it. Although they have never raised a pistol to a man, fled to Mexico, murdered out of love, anger, or murdered "just to watch him die" as Johnny Cash once put it, these themes are abundant in the writing.

If you’ve always wanted to relive the Wild West, or the 70's outlaw country movement – well, those days are gone, but The Heavy Horses aim to get you pretty damn close...

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