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Sometimes you can fix something by reducing the problem to an abstracted version of the problem, so you don't get distracted by details
Sometimes you can fix something by breaking the problem into multiple sub-problems, each far less insurmountable-seeming than the last.
Sometimes you can fix something by reading a book called The Nature Doctor
And supporting the disease in doing its healing as opposed to suppressing the symptoms.
Sometimes you can fix something by using a ton of fucking discipline
And not using words like fuck in your vocabulary unnecessarily.
Sometimes you can fix something by giving it attention in the middle of the night when aspects of life like the phone bill are sleeping.
Sometimes you can fix something by not being afraid of your own power
Feel that? The universe is offering it for a reason.
Sometimes you can fix something by just writing a letter
Whether or not you ever send it.
Sometimes you can fix something by not racially stereotyping
Not every Puerto Rican is a Jewish banker with a giant penis
Sometimes you can fix something by just going to bed
When the phone bill is starting to wonder if it's time for breakfast.
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Well I really should be going back to bed now. It's 4:17 am on April Fools day. It feels like a good time to eat a psychedelic mushroom, but there are none here and sleep can be kind of psychedelic too - and sometimes more restful than tripping.
So this is another experiment with the at-times-rediculously-cheesy-sounding-like-casio-instrumental but in ways quite amusing and fun U-Jam beta site.
I am submitting two versions of it. So we'll see if either gets used.
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Mike iLL |
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Sometimes ya can fix something by
Just making a list
Sometimes ya can fix something by
Looking at the list
Sometimes ya can fix something by
Just ignoring it
Sometimes ya can fix something by singing everything that's on it
Preceded by the words, "sometimes you can fix something by".
Sometimes you can fix somethings by accepting that it's broken
'Supposed to have your kids making each other scream
Sometimes ya can fix somethings by
Just going to school
Sometimes ya can fix somethings by
Not having a reason why
Sometimes ya can fix somethings by
Just letting them scream
Sometimes ya can fix somethings by
Just being a bug
Sometimes ya can fix somethings by... by... by
Singin' bye 'n' bye
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After spending an inordinate amount of time listening to many many segments and incarnations of this "verse" or "outro" as the case may be - I've been pondering the various ways that the project speaks about the participants, many of whom happen to have one degree of separation from the recording studio in Hoboken, New Jersey through which I kind of entered the music industry - which I think I've hopefully left (he lied).
I am humbled by the cleverness of so many of the tracks. This one doesn't offer much in the way of textual content, but it is a use of the syllables that hadn't been in there yet.
It was done using uJam - just singing a capella at the breakfast table with Rinah and Ashirah (and a bug), then selecting an instrumental - one uJam called "baby pop" or something.
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Mike iLL |
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Sometimes ya can fix something by removing the melody
So no one notices you're tone deaf
Sometimes ya can fix something by ignoring the rhyme scheme
So you can focus on the substance
Sometimes ya can fix something by making up the words as ya go
So you can sound rather hesitant
Sometimes you can fix something by getting little girls dressed in the morning
So you can go out to the craft store
Sometimes you can fix something by making them record something
"Can you put my shoes on me, Daddy?" Of course, darling.
Sometimes you can fix something by asking the older one to say something (say something)
And then she's shy
Sometimes ya can fix something by pressing the stop button
And saying, "Rinah, would you please say something?"
Sometimes you can fix something by letting the dog out in the backyard
So he can poop and pee in the morning
Sometimes ya can fix something by waking up early enough
To have a little bit of down time.
Sometimes you can fix something by staying up late enough
To make up something that is a meaningless rhyme or a crime
Oh Gosh, I'm stuck in the rhyme circle of meaninglessness
Noooooooo! Stop!
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Here I'm trying this again after having changed a setting so that the overdub and backing tracks will line up properly. or at least more properly.
lyrics are coming soon, i promise. first i need to make it so that i can actually play the damn track from this page where you input the lyrics. that would help. but when i send chris an invoice he says "this has got to stop."
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