Ballad of Good Intentions
Added 2025-02-18 18:10:11 +0000 UTCA few years ago I covered the acapella song "The Ballad of David Icke" by Clem Snide with a full-band arrangement, and this song was an attempt to write something new with a similar feel to that cover. I like the instrumental part at the end of this, and there's a few sections that use a sample from Yoshi's Island (lol) but it's so decontextualized it's hard to tell. The vocals are at the bottom of my range so they feel pretty strained as a result, these days I'm trying to be conscientious about avoiding that, which is one reason I'm sort of "over it" with this song.
BALLAD OF GOOD INTENTIONS
the road ahead rewinds
just as freedom's last bell chimes
light frost on city streetlights
a permanent design
a devastating haze
signals centuries of rain
all best and worst intentions
washed in the scent of sage
roads ahead rewind
just as freedom's last bell chimes
those ghosts of good intentions
lie sleeping in your mind
the only ones who stayed
flowing into unmarked graves
reciting history's pages
in perfect paraphrase
roads ahead rewind
just as freedom's last bell chimes
those ghosts of good intentions
still sleeping in your mind
