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'Vacant Lot' Unfinished Home Studio Demo (Guide Vocal Only) - Recorded 17th May 1998 Gregorian
Joining me (Guide Vocal / Acoustic Guitar / Drum Programming) are:
Bass-Martin Hynes, Electric Guitar-Scott Wheatley, Drums-Roland (The Drum Machine!)
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(Chords and Lyrics)
© Project Freeman Music
(19th February 1998 Gregorian)
Here I am
Adrift at sea
I'm searching for the island
Where I can just be me
So will you come
And help me row my boat
Without your help it could be hard
To keep myself afloat
Don’t let me drift away
Share my thoughts today
Help me spread the word
Throughout a soul un-searching world
Chorus:
Educate to hate the hate
Intolerance is the only thing you shouldn’t tolerate
The only thing worth hating is the hate
Intolerance is the only thing you shouldn’t tolerate
It’s just a drug
Driven by a small mind
A negativity
Is it swamping me
Know who I am?
Don’t let the feeling spread
If you give a damn
We can try
Argue in defiance
In our self defence
Self awareness
Brings a self reliance
So find out who you are
Repeat Chorus
Instrumental
Repeat Chorus x 2
Never got around to finishing the vocals on this one, so there are no harmonies and it's just a guide vocal, but as my aim is to get demos of all my songs on line this will do for now.
Inspired by Martin Hynes. Hynesey said this phrase to me, while we were in a curry house in Birmingham somewhere if memory serves me right, we were there for a Man Utd away game at Villa Park I think... Anyway, he said that the only thing we should hate is hate itself and that the only thing we should not tolerate was intolerance!
I loved this idea and its meaning and so, inspired, wrote the rest of the words not long afterwards. The best key for singing still needs sorting before I hopefully, eventually get around to recording a proper version, but I hope you like the sentiment behind the song, even in its poor, current (24 year old!) state
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© Project Freeman Music (1998 Gregorian)