★3★ when the ghosts in us are gone

4 days ago by @burrMod

★3★ when the ghosts in us are gone

burr

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Liner Notes

#LoFi #BedroomPop #Cassette #DrumMachine #Bass #Rock #Llama #Feast

i enjoyed writing a 4-song EP in FAWM week 1. so after a creative drought in week 2 where i hated everything i did, i decided to try it again...

this time i asked 🦙🤖 llama 3.3 (open-source chatgpt alternative) to give me a "roadmap" for a 5-song EP, suggesting BPM, time signature, song structure, chord changes, and which instruments to use (out of a handful of options i provided) in a lo-fi 4-track cassette recording.

amazingly, it mostly understood what i was asking 🤯, so i used its output to guide the creation of these 5 songs.

the original AI output is below, but i did take some liberties. i built these up in a passes (track 1 for all songs, then track 2, then 3+4, then mixing). i'll post them as i finish mixing them...

==== SONG-SPECIFIC NOTES ====
for some reason i started singing "when the ghosts in us are gone" instead of the "ghosts of summer" AI title, and it went surprisingly fast from there. lyrics mostly from snippets i've jotted in my phone's notes app over time. i don't drop f-bombs often, but it felt right — so much so i had to re-re-re-do the vocals because i kept choking up at that line. instead of using a whole track for just a glockenspiel solo, i punched that into the vocal track and put percussion on track 4.

==== ORIGINAL LLAMA 3.3 OUTPUT ====
Song 3: "Ghosts of Summer"
BPM: 110
Time signature: 4/4
Song structure: Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Outro

Chord progressions:
Verse: Fmaj7−C−G−Am−E7
Chorus: C−G−Fmaj7−Am
Bridge: Am−Fmaj7−G−C
Outro: Fmaj7−C

Track assignments:
Track 1: univox sr-55 and bass guitar
Track 2: electric guitar
Track 3: vocals
Track 4: glockenspiel

==== ALL THE SONGS IN THIS EP ====
1 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/312138
2 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/312151
3 ◉ THIS!
4 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/312192
5 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/312207

Lyrics

to be present to the pain
without needing to fix it
to welcome what remains
without feeling fatalistic
these wounds we know well
this wilderness we trod
a journey through hell (and back)
is a way to get to god

when the ghosts in us are gone
we see the strength in our scars
all the maps will be redrawn
to point us to the stars
like a phoenix from the reliquiae
we rise and carry on
the past can be a memory
when the ghosts in us are gone

take a tome of transgressions
and shove back it on a shelf
and fuck anyone who's mad at you
for taking care of yourself
we ride our monsters all the way
it's full steam ahead
don't slay your demons
give them a high five instead

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