{"id":3356,"date":"2017-05-25T23:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T06:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2018-06-28T18:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T01:28:32","slug":"anvilicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/music\/anvilicious","title":{"rendered":"Anvilicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anvilicious<\/A><\/p>\n

Lyrics:<\/p>\n

Little bits of paper
\nOnes and zeros online
\nMatter more to you
\nThan live hearts and minds<\/p>\n

You tell yourselves lies
\nAbout where the poor have been
\nYou say they\u2019re all just lazy
\nYou don\u2019t understand<\/p>\n

The system we built
\nDoesn\u2019t put you back up when you fall
\nInstead it locks you behind another prison wall<\/p>\n

And while you stand there
\nIn your ivory tower on the green
\nAnother kid gets crushed between the wheels of the machine<\/p>\n

Money is not value
\nIt\u2019s just the corpse and the cost
\nValue is the things you really need
\nBut that idea gets lost
\nWhen your mind is obsessed
\nWith how rich you could be
\nYou don\u2019t see how if we left it behind we\u2019d all be set free<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re telling me
\nYou want things to stay the same
\nWhich is just another way of saying conservative
\nWith just another name<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, man, you don\u2019t see the fall
\nStaying the same is another way of dying
\nThat\u2019s the writing on the wall<\/p>\n

And if you don\u2019t want to join me in this dream
\nAt least admit you\u2019re making hell
\nWith the tools and the means<\/p>\n

You\u2019re making weapons.. Shoot the guns and drop the bombs
\nTo kill another innocent<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obvious to me
\nFrom where I stand
\nWe can all be unimaginably wealthy
\nIf you just lend a hand<\/p>\n

Stop thinking of this as a zero sum game
\nWith what we know now, the rules are not the same<\/p>\n

Think about virtual reality
\nThink about gifts – a race set free
\nNot even Jesus could see the whole picture yet
\nWhen he said the poor are with you always – he missed a bet.<\/p>\n

Biological systems, the most powerful computers yet known
\nIf we could load the right software, paradise could be homegrown
\nWhlie our bodies kept the wheels moving
\nOur minds could be alive and free
\nInside our own envelope
\nFreedom, inevitably<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m guessing that aint what you\u2019re about
\nYou\u2019re about ownership, and power, and making sure you leave the rest of us out
\nSo you\u2019ll forgive me if I sometimes don\u2019t see your side
\nIf I think you\u2019re either evil or stupid, or have something big to hide<\/p>\n

The story:<\/p>\n

So, I was testing out Waves’ new grand piano (this<\/A>), and I decided to track vox and the piano and just kind of spin some lyrics as I went. I liked what I got enough to add some layers and post it here, and hopefully some of you will enjoy it as well. I think my favorite bit is where the acoustic guitar comes in..<\/p>\n

The title is definitely a nod to the trope<\/A>, although, then again, maybe some anvils need to be dropped<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anvilicious Lyrics: Little bits of paper Ones and zeros online Matter more to you Than live hearts and minds You tell yourselves lies About where the poor have been You say they\u2019re all just lazy You don\u2019t understand The system we built Doesn\u2019t put you back up when you fall Instead it locks you behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}