The United Dictators Of Mars - SONG

Frame Of Mind

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(re-invigorated)

Music: Mody, Words: Harris/Mody

When all alone is one really alone?
Does the hair on the nap of the neck stand on end?
Could that be the breath of a presence behind?
Turn and see nothing and yet it surrounds.
Sees .. feels.. wants.. knows.

When all is still is all really still
The eyes well with water the nightmare begins.
Could that be the breath of a whispering wind?
Turn and see something but nothing is there.
Sees .. feels.. wants.. knows.

Watching, Waiting. Always cautious, hesitating. Sleep in Limbo

Is the conscious a state of mind?
Or perhaps, frame of mind?
Wake Up, Wake Up, Wake Up. Just Wake Up

Sees .. feels.. wants.. knows.
Terror, whispers, horror... ha, ha, ha
Watching, Waiting. Waiting, Watching... ha, ha, ha.

Jeff never does as I expect. Here's another song he rejected from past projects. I wrote the music around a bass riff our old Archivon '94 bass player Bob Heath used to warm up. It was a slap and hammer technique but I can't do that so I used the slap bass on the drum machine for the entire song. The guitar is a slap harmonic technique of my own I use often which is probably why I was so attached to the song. The song was never properly recorded so when I laid the music down, this time Jeff was a bit more amicable. I knew it still needed something so I finished it off with the synth bends to give it a little update. I always felt the song was up-beat and even funky. So, to my surprise I was HIGHLY annoyed when Jeff wanted to develop lyrics around a concept of fear. Where was he getting that from? But I played along as usual. We sat down and set up a format that avoided the words like "you", "I", "he", etc. It focuses strictly on the perception of fear in general. I wasn't finding anything exciting in his melody either but we worked through the chorus a bit and I could hear the eeriness of a particular take just make it all work. As usual we disagreed and I had to convince him to not mess with it anymore. Over time I began to hear a kind of sinister mood to my opening guitar piece so again all credit to Jeff for finding a fresh groove to an old piece of luggage

God I love this one. Can't believe I rejected this in the past. The original concept of this song is a bass line created by Bob Heath. I really enjoy getting under Tom's skin sometimes with my "go against the grain" mind set. It's not really anti-establishment or anything like that. It's just my way of shaking things up a bit to stay away from the main stream and be creative, original if you will. I dislike predictability...almost fear it.When Tom re-presented the music to this one, I heard eerie. Tom and I have the same vision with different maps to arrive there. This is the best way I can explain our partnership. One can only imagine the difficulties faced in a partnership where there are four to five road maps. It took me some time to adjust to editing a lyrically written song of Tom's so that it would fit his musical piece and also be something which he would grow to embrace. Convincing him of it is sometimes difficult. We are both stubborn. When he finally conceded to my theme for this song, it became intensely exciting to collaborate with him in lyric writing dissecting every line and word. We used this method for a handful of the songs on this CD and I must say, I really enjoyed that part of the process and hope to do so in the future. We both agreed to write in tense where pronouns would not be used. Anyhow, every time I listen to this one, the intro gives me the same eerie feeling as when we recorded it. I couldn't even listen to it for some time upon completion. Especially while alone.

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