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O<\/span>ne of the things that happens when you write songs — especially if you record them yourself — is that by the time you have anything presentable to the public, you, youself, already hate the song. Or are at least totally sick of it.<\/p>\n So I’m here to share that with you in the form of what I’m calling a songwriter demo, essentially a rough first draft production, with keyboards, drums, back up vocals and so forth — of “Chain of Mondays,” which, no, you’re not mistaken, was also the subject of last Tuesday’s “Monday on Tuesday” post commemorating the first workday of the new year.<\/p>\n And today is the first Monday.<\/p>\n So it’s all legit.<\/p>\n And, besides, this song has never had a proper rough production demo and it’s almost a year old — so, it’s all for a good cause.<\/p>\n I started out looking for an anthem but what I’ve got so far is a kind of garage rock…<\/p>\n chain of mondays [UPDATE: I decided the recording I’d posted here was just too flawed to put up on the web. Imagine, if you can. Please feel free to enjoy one of the previous versions…] chain of mondays<\/span><\/p>\n a thousand mondays before you know it chain of mondays<\/span> I’m good at what I do what’s it all for chain of mondays…<\/span><\/p>\n don’t take off my shackles been at the grindstone chain of mondays…<\/span><\/p>\n (C)2006, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the things that happens when you write songs — especially if you record them yourself — is that by the time you have anything presentable to the public, you, youself, already hate the song. Or are at least totally sick of it. So I’m here to share that with you in the form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[563,566,565,567,872,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>songwriter demo (first draft full production)<\/p>\n
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\nprevious AYoS versions<\/span><\/span>
\nMonday, February 13, 2006<\/a>
\nMonday, April 03, 2006<\/a>
\nTuesday, January 02, 2007<\/a><\/p>\n
\nthat’s just 19 years
\nput your head down
\nput yourself in gear<\/p>\n
\nthe day is done
\nfall asleep
\nand there’s another one<\/p>\n
\nwrapped round my life<\/span>
\nchain of mondays <\/span>
\nuntil the day I die<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbut what I do is dumb
\npushing things around
\nall day long<\/p>\n
\ndon’t ask me
\ni’m just a well-worn gear
\nin the big machine<\/p>\n
\ni don’t want to be free
\ncause theres nowhere to go
\nand no one to be<\/p>\n
\nfor so damn long
\nthere’s nothing much left
\nexcept this song:<\/p>\n