Name: Clean Yourself - The Bones Of JR Jones by Chasing The Blues
Duration: 3 min 23 s
Description: Original music from the film "Chasing The Blues"

Tell Me How You Died

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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What's that creepin' 'cross my floor?
Didn't I tell you shut the door?
'Cause that snake ain't leavin' us now
No that snake ain't leavin' us now
And what kind of dreams did you tell?
To the darkness at the bottom of the well
'Cause you are never in this alone
Now you gone give the devil our home
Now you gone give the devil our home
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What did you wish on that stone?
Was it worth It saving your soul?
And I've been around enough to see
Once you let them In they won't leave
Once you let them in they won't leave
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Clean Yourself - The Bones Of JR Jones

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