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The Air As Witness (acoustic)

from (Free Collection of nonActuals) by Nothingful

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This is a straight live acoustic recording I did
the other night (3/31/12) downstairs in my house.
You will hear my percussive hits on my bass.
I wrote this song just as I started playing with
my first real drummer, Matt Pahler. So I bring
it along all eager, to one of our many practices
and he just adds this amazing hip-hop triple
bass drum beat to it which I loved, and these
different, sometimes sloppy fills.
After he moved up north, away, I found playing
this song to be kinda too empty, personally
a bit boring or lacking-- until I started
replicating his drumpart on my bass.
Props to Matt, missya buddy.
THE END
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lyrics

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Colored wax to break my back
So many colors here
Building nothing out of something
Up nights and wasted tears
Coulda kept a garden alive
A life on wheels, it just feels
like I've missed on the kiss

Pet ethiopia
I got today's paper and someone's got philophobia
and the car's got water vapor
and someone's laughing too much
and someone has to go and ruin the party
and someone's feelings are a crutch
and we'll be gone but what will remain is our art

Some don't like to think,
we don't like to drink,
There's all this talk of the elephant in the room
well I want some ivory real soon
Portable fruit and a cross to bare
I've got so much better I would like to share
Pick an object at random and an animal
A barrel and a goat, or a bear

Sew me something nice and useful
Can you sew my mouth shut
I don't want to speak any more
I don't want to have to say it
with the air as witness

This is a goodbye
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from (Free Collection of nonActuals), released February 26, 2011
Sasha is playing acoustic bass 'n' singin'.

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Nothingful San Diego, California

Spangles of opportunity in which to dimension
into the angles of music and rhythms written in the air.
Sings, plays acoustic bass guitar, dobro, sax..
The songs are uncoventional in as so many
ways as he is musically untrained.
To play the bass in the way that Nothingful
makes it would be to so as in a tuning other than standard.
I am inspired by Laziness and randomness.

I LOVE LAST SECOND SHOWS.
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