Robots and Aliens

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03/10/09 • -1 min

I started this song aiming for something calmer than the others I’ve posted so far, so before I laid down a single note, I set a slow tempo.Â Proving that music is never simple, this song ended up being relatively energetic anyway. Once I realized what was happening, I made no effort to change it because it seemed the song was trying to go someplace in particular. My task was to figure out where. Well, here’s that someplace. As usual, lyrics after the break.

Robots and Aliens
music and lyrics by Ahd Child

Verse
I find my thoughts are strange
I know that thatâ€s OK
But sometimes I wonder if I should change
I get these strange looks for all my deviations
And they’re so devastating cuz Iâ€m cast out on a lonely . . .
But where should I go, if not the status quo
Perhaps a journey far far far from my earthly home
Iâ€m blasting off with turbo boosters and no space suit
Iâ€m open to the universe with few expectations
Who knows the sensations Iâ€ll find in outer space
Iâ€ll walk my lonely path until I find my own place
I canâ€t be grounded here, Iâ€m floating in the wind
Like a feather in sky, so I might as well fly high
Iâ€ll leave this static orbit like a new comet forming
Iâ€ll find a path thatâ€s chaotic and less boring
Iâ€ll find the spot where the cosmos first exploded
Examine the beginning as Iâ€m floating

Chorus
Commune with aliens
Different intelligence
Observe new substances
And unique elements

Robots and Aliens
music and lyrics by Ahd Child

Chorus
Commune with aliens
Different intelligence
Observe new substances
And unique elements

Previous Episode

The Life of a Mouse

I guess it’s normal for me to come up with music first, then start writing words that seem to fit it. Life of a Mouse started that way. A few lines in, the idea for the final song started forming and I ended up rewriting the lines that had come before the idea. File this one under angry hip-hop. Read on for lyrics.

The Life of a Mouse

Lyrics and music by Ahd Child

Verse 1
I see fluorescent white lights and steel in my sleep
I can’t be free from these concrete dreams
As I scream at the bars at the side of my cage
I get no where with my rage
I am a lab rat for experiments
I’m unimportant and irrelevant
The white coats don’t care about my struggle for the cheese
I mean, who stops to listen to a lab rat’s pleas?
I’m stuck walking the maze, always running from the shocks
The turns always change, and I’m always so lost
It’s not even a game, there’s no pleasure that’s gained
They just do what they do, immune to my pain
You see the mice always pay for the scientists’ mistakes
As they fiddle around making changes to our brains
They alter DNA and infect us with disease
And at the end of the day they’re all free to leave

Chorus
I hate the life of a mouse
Constantly trying to sneak around
Always hiding, can’t make a sound
Cuz they hate a mouse

Verse 2
I’m stuck crawling through walls
Finding passage through the gaps
Trying to survive without sticking to a trap
I need to eat to live, but there’s poison in the food
So I starve if I don’t but I’m damned if I do
I chew through their wires and I hope I’m starting fires
But I can do so little before I feel so tired
I spend most my time hiding, the alternative to dieing
I feel so weak, I should be fighting
But I’m so easily damaged, I pose no challenge
I’m just a minor annoyance when I’m doing my damnedest
My bones are so brittle, there is little I can do
Whenever I try something new, they are not fooled
They may scream if they see me running around freely
But they just catch me and lock in my cage with my feces
They say I’m so cute, perfect for a pet
Fuck that!
I’d rather be dead

Chorus

Verse 3
I can’t shake this funny feeling that there’s a cat at my back
Lurking in the shadows, just waiting to attack
I know I might get snatched, but I think I need a snack
You see I’m forced to act when my stomach makes demands
I have basic needs that its dangerous to meet
I’m forced to sneak just to live and to breathe
Cats and traps and hands and feet
Make it hard to exist, hard to just be
Is it worth being free?
This freedom’s so limiting
And the gains of this lifestyle seem to keep diminishing
There’sÂ no time for joy, just running and escaping
With death around the corner constantly waiting
I hate them!
But I can’t change this situation
I could face extermination, give in to experimentation
Or perhaps domestication, but nah, no escaping
No escaping!

Chorus

Next Episode

Summertime Rain

Lyrically speaking, Summertime Rain is an odd song for me. Instead of trying to tell a story, when I wrote this, I was trying to tell a particular feeling. If you mix feelings of expectation, uncertainty, mortality, and happiness, you will have the feeling I was trying to capture. Musically, I was going for something that’s kind of funk and kind of calm at the same time. This is a song that is easy for me to see imagine as a video. Maybe someday . . .

Lyrics are after the break.

Summertime Rain
lyrics and music by Ahd Child

Chorus
I’m gonna wait
For that summertime rain
I’m gonna wait
To get washed away

Verse 1
Standing by the curb looking down at the dirt
I’m waiting for the rain to kiss the earth
Up in the sky, all I see is the sun
But the weatherman promised, so I know it’s gonna come

I been waiting all year, So what’s one more day
If the cutter of threads will let me stay
It’s been a whole year since I wet my throat
So the grim reaper might make me go

Chorus

Verse 2
My life hasn’t been long, but I’ve loved what I’ve had
So if I don’t see this water, you don’t be sad
Sometimes the drops fall and sometimes they wait
I’m in the hands of the clouds and at the mercy of fate

I been waiting all year so what’s one more day
If the cutter of threads will let me stay
It’s been a whole year since I wet my throat
So the grim reaper might make me go

Chorus

Bridge
I’ve seen a lot of rivers and I’ve seen a lot of lakes
But in the end it’s for these drops that I wait
Waiting for the rain

Chorus

Verse 3
My life hasn’t been long, but I’ve loved what I’ve had
So if I don’t see this water, you don’t be sad
Sometimes the drops fall and sometimes they wait
I’m in the hands of the clouds and at the mercy of fate

I been waiting all year so what’s one more day
If the cutter of threads will let me stay
It’s been a whole year since I wet my throat
So the grim reaper might make me go

Chorus

Bridge 2
I don’t want to be saved or to go back in time
I just want the water to fall on these eyes