JJ Cale meets Kenny Burrell (I wish) with a song re what can actually be perfect in the imperfect world as per Plato

Lyrics: Must be Perfect (Plato)
I’m looking for something 
It has to be the perfect kind
I’m looking for something 
So far it is just in my mind

Chorus
It needs to be perfect
With no sign of a flaw
It needs to be perfect
All rejects will be shown the door

I know I won’t find it
Walking down the street
I know I won’t find it 
If I do I will be complete

Every facet,
Every curve,
A perfect body to observe
The ideal form in every line
Perfection is so divine

I’m looking for something 
It has to be the perfect form
I’m looking for something 
It certainly not the form

Must be Perfect (Plato 424/423 – 348/347 BC)

Distorted Clock

Estela

Some songs are more personal than others. 

This one began with me soloing on my guitar. For some reason, what I was playing registered with the same emotion I felt when I learned my dad was going to prison. So, I created a song around that soloing and story. 

But what I felt in relation to my own biography has been recreated millions of times across this country. After all, we don’t call it _mass_ incarceration for nothing. 

Song songs that are deeply personal turn out to be deeply collective as well. 

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Notes
Made in Ableton Live 11.

Much thanks to Andrew Fraser for his comments on earlier versions of this song.

Artwork by El Sanadaji [ElSanandaji.com; @FullTonalRag]
Mixed by Marc Felish, Dominion Mastering [https://www.dominionmastering.com/]
Produced by Autonomous Cultural Productions


Tags: mass incarceration, private prisons, prison abolition, federal prison, USP Atlanta, drug war, people not prisons, criminal justice reform, mandatory minimum, drug sentencing, war on drugs, drug policy reform, end the war on drugs, end the drug war, sentencing reform

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A non-singer songwriter! Writing a series of songs (Double Album) about western philosophy and philosophers while trying to keep them rockin'. These song explore western philosophy inspire by Nigel Warburton's Book "A Little History of Philosophy" and I started writing them to aid my poor muddle memory.

Picked up the Electric Guitar during lockdown after 20 years and haven't looked back - why did I put it away!

Looking at recruiting a proper singer and other band members to make live music once again.

Writing music and playing guitars (inc bass) keeping me sane in a mad world!

Main influence is 70s Rock, but into blues, soul, funk and jazz. I also play the spanish guitar classical guitar and dabble with the ukelele!

Drums provided by Roland "The Boss"

All songs recorded mainly in my kitchen on a Boss BR 80 and refined/remixed (badly) on Audacity!

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