Spinning THings

On saturday September 25th m1 brought these lyrics over and at the same time I had been working on some chord changes. It just so happened that the two ideas blended well together. We spent about two hours trying various things and edited the lyrics as the melodty started taking shape. Below is the orginal lyrics as written and the revised lyrics after a few run throughs. Clicking on the link when active will get you a early pre-production version of Spinning Things with piano, guitar and vocal.

A note about the proproduction mix. Recorded live into the MOTU with a MXL990 mic on vocal and a MXL2001 on guitar. I think the guitar mic was a bit too close to center line and thus the sound was skewed to the mids a bit too strong. The Piano was run through a keyboard amp mixer and sent to the motu 828 as a mono signal. I put a little eVerb, small hall room on the master channel and that was pretty much it. If you are lucky you will get a really early take on this before I dubbed the vocals in and fixed the lyrical flubs in the pre-mix.

Spinning Things

Humming goes the spinning things
Of blurry roads and distant trees
And lines on maps, and gasoline
Fast food stops and tears unseen

Treading on the miles passing
Impatiently as hours passing
Dropping baggage on the way
Drifting through another day

The one you loved is
Miles away
The spinning things
Take you away
The distant dreams begins to fade
The one you pushed, pushed you away

Listening as the day dreams
Blowing through your silent screams
The humming noise of spinning things
And endless paths of mingled streams

Swerving through the thoughts that frighten
Thunder claps and darkness lightens
On the road you might have been
To make the turn you understand



Spinning Things
(c) 2004 Fisk/Odland

Humming goes the spinning things
Of blurry roads and distant trees
Feeding on the miles passing

Fast food stops and unseen tears
lines on maps, and gasoline
Dropping baggage on the way

The one you loved is
Miles away
The spinning things
Take you away
The perfect dream begins to fade
The one you pushed, pushed you away

Listening as the day dreams
Blowing through your silent screams
And endless paths of merging streams

Swerving through the thoughts that frighten
Thunder claps and darkness lightens
On the road you might have been