| gNASHVILLE! |
| 1. I Want to be a Christian -- Intro 2. Read it in a Letter 3. Barbie Dolls 4. Wake 5. Closer to You 6. Arise, My Soul 7. Gnashville 8. Radiation 9. Johnny's Dead 10. Perish Hilton 11. Thelma and Louise were a Couple of Dishes 12. Loser's Lament 13. Leper's Logic 14. My Hope is Built 15. Zaccheus 16. Television Anesthesia 17. Hypocrisy 18. I Want to be a Christian 19. Joy 20. Rejoice 21. How Firm a Foundation |
| Track 4: Wake |
| Written by: Bob Brown Date of Writing: October 30, 2008 |
| Notes For all moron songs with lyrics, I have always done a write-up of them on a 6-inch by 9-inch piece of paper: lyrics, notes (not just of the melody, but of the other instruments--like bass and keyboard), chords, tempo, Bible reference (if any), month/year of composition, etc. For moron songs that are instrumental, such is not always the case: I have written up some; others can be found only in the pages of my notebooks where I sketch out ideas. These notebooks are basically my musical diaries (with a tiny bit of personal, non-musical stuff thrown in as well.) However, some of the instrumental pieces referenced only in the notebooks do not have all of their parts written down. Such is the case for "Wake." A few ideas are written down for it in a notebook with the date in the margin 10-30 (2008.) There is a repeated element in the song that sounds like a tiny pebble hitting a pane of glass, which is followed by a steam-hiss. My original recording had the pebble hitting the glass just once (per measure), but Doug beautifully dressed it up by making the pebble bounce a few times. Listen to the song; you'll know what I mean. That very subtle change was brilliant on Doug's part. A "wake" is a "watch held over the body of a dead person until buried" (www. merriam-webster.com). You can probably guess why this song follows "Barbie Dolls" on the CD. When I wrote and recorded this song, I wasn't thinking of a particular event at the Operation Rescue 20 Conference in Philadelphia over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007. However, there was a strange (in my perspective) episode there on Friday night, with all conference attendees gathered in the convention center, involving dimmed lights, candles, and the body of an aborted baby in a box--that may have had a subconscious influence on me when I was writing this song. |