S1E3: Taping Down Your Earlobe

Jam Mechanics

On the 3rd episode of Jam Mechanics, we cement BUG's legacy forever. This one feels right out of a dream within a dream Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we challenge each other to write a song demo from scratch every episode. If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us! Our Music: ⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

---------- BUG'S SONG Matt's challenge: Songception

Title: Song Lyrics: I just woke up here

I am 7 seconds old

I go in your ears

I am exactly what you told me to be and I

I will never change or mould

At least not for long

You are my dad

I am your song

It’s been 30 seconds now and

Boy feels good to stretch these legs

Pick up the pace and run and jump

And see how far this road’ll take me

Oh hey, what’s that? I found this chord, oh please dad, can we keep it?

You say: song that there’s a minor chord, its only good for somber feelings

So I put it back down where it was

You teach me right from wrong

You are my dad

And I am your song

But look at me, a minute in

And now I’ve found some friends

They back me up, they make me fuller,

Act as perfect complements

And now people keep on stopping me

To tell me what I am

What this sound is all about

And what it means to all of them

I am anguish, I am heartache

I am unbearable to hear

I am closure, I am power,

I am brutally sincere

But dad you never told me I could make these people cry

I thought you brought me here so I could be something they like

You say you didn’t mean it, never wanted this for me, I may not

Be the song you meant to write, but I’m the one they need

The one they need

Sometimes you get it right, even if they take it wrong

You are my dad

But I’m their song -------

MATT'S SONG Bug's Challenge: The song must have the initials B.U.G. Title: Buried Under Gary Lyrics:

why do you come here they say

every summer

don't you have anywhere better to be

you arrive with the butterfly weed

blow into town like a cottonwood seed

something's buried under Gary Indiana

something's buried under Gary Indiana

there's blood on the lake shore

keening from the wild

haven't you felt it moving

deep in the soil

so i have coming for years

every summer

cause that's when the symptoms appear

ask your friends bout their prophetic dreams

ask your kids bout the shadows they've seen

seems like everyone but you's got a feeling

something's buried under Gary Indiana

something's buried under Gary Indiana

it'll swallow the steel mills

the lake's gonna boil

haven't you felt it crawling

deep in the soil

something's buried under Gary Indiana

something's buried under Gary Indiana