JPF Home Page Forums Week 37 MP3/Lyric Pick: "The Grind"

Hi Dana - Thankyou! & for coming back twice as well...

It's cool, if you don't listen to alot of rock bands mainly from 1990 - 2008 this kinda stuff will really seem off center. So you're right not being familar with this style is the trouble many here are having. It's so clear to me just in the way some talk/write and words & examples they use.

Anyhow - The story is never meant to progress or conclude. So really it's no hope at the end of the tunnel
But hope only lying in the fact that the person realizes there situation. In turn he or she is making the listener realize they may be in the same kind of situation. We all have it in some way or another. Everyones "Grind" is different The trap, the rut we all fall into.

“I didn't see the signs I drove a hundred miles the other way”

Is also my favorite line in the song

The singer tells you clearly how he feels, why he feels that way is left out purposely. I left specifics out intentionally, I often do that, and it's actually not easy to do lol...

"Desperation" is the key to the second verse, All of my life i have worked and went along in a pretty normal way. I would never think about doing something bad or doing something improper.. And I could NEVER accept why someone would do somethings. Now when i see how people get screwed over from OTHER people.. I can see more clearly Why it happens.
"Perspective" - I used to make $25 an hour on my job and at night I'd make $500 playing on recording sessions in an only an hour..

Now I pick through other peoples garbage cans! for stuff to sell.

Never would have dreamed that possible...
When your desperate you'd be amazed at what you'd do! It has a huge impact on your life.

He is taking responsibility but he's saying - Anyones situation may have put them in this position. It's not there fault perhaps, it's there choice now they realized maybe it wasn't the best choice... or they had no choice (have to feed those kids) now they live with it for 10- 20 years. Wake up call, Sticking it out doesn't always make it right!

As for explaining the craft and all that goes into all this is hard, you just have to come over and sit in the studio with me. I had some videos up that discuss the writing and other processes. In it it shows me talking about just the metronome.

Do you know I put more time & thought into just the tempo of a song than some do in there whole song lol Really! You'll have to ask John Daubert what goes on here, he's been involved.

When I'm using the metronome and finding the tempo, I go through each section of the song. To make sure that FEEL is always right. Singing is never too fast or too slow for any section. Then I do it all over again one click up or down..
Who do you know who does that? People are saying Here's a song I wrote & recorded today" That never happens to me, I'm not that gifted, I gotta work on it.

This is just scratching the surface of all the work that goes in, that work is all part of the craft.

Thanks Dana