Smiling Bill Malone

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So. In the past week or so I’ve been sort of inundated with concern from friends and family about my mental condition. Which is all fine, you know – nothing’s worse than being in a terrible way with nothing there to cheer you back up, you know?

It did make me all of a sudden a bit more self conscious about what I have been putting up here, though. So I tried to write about it with sort of a high concept metaphor, where there’s some other guy who is running around being upbeat and being a go-getter and all that, who sort of stole that ability from me sometime in elementary I guess. Lyric writing being what it is, much clarifying information was dropped on the floor, so the result is maybe open to misinterpretation.

But I added a bunch of electric guitars and reverb and echo and stuff so it doesn’t sound so “raw” and “close”, like a bedroom confessional thing.

Oh, and I figured out that the speaker actually was not plugged in on my amplifier. Which explains most of the problems I was having.

Enjoy!