From the recording 4. Compli-intricated Life
This song was inspired by a picking pattern that is intricate, because embedded in the pattern one plays the same note 4-times very quickly (what I call a "tetra grace note" sequence). The song refers to life being both complicated and intricate, just like the syncopated grace notes that are slipped in throughout the song. The extremely high notes that you will also hear are played beyond the frets of an electric guitar, using a bottleneck.
Lyrics
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COMPLI-INTRICATED LIFE
Michael Dyer
© 2007
Lately, my life has gotten so compli-intricated,
Even this song, now grace-note intra-syncopated.
My obsessive mind is just so compuls-inebriated,
Even my dreams are roco-co-llated.
A playing mannequin, incarcerated by my sins.
Can I extricate my soul from this excavated hole?
Sinkin' more each day and date. Maybe that’s just my fate.
To be inhalated, sedated, and then too late.
How can I reach your psyche when I can’t feel like me?
We need a break, but together. How about Waikiki?
We need an escape from every clock and key!
My compli-intricated life is consuming me,
Both slowly and ever so quick-i-ly.
Beating me down like a flickerin’ light switch,
Like a ceaseless itch, like some muscle twitch.
My intra-syncopated life, so much sin mixed in,
Playin’ mannequin.
Don’t know where to go or where I've been.
My blood’s inoculated. My lungs, intubated.
My brain’s all saturated with ... thoughts of you.
My gut rots/plots its decoherence and destruction.
Adherence to appearance, now a reduction,
Into insanity.
Or is it just my own vanity?
We shall just have to wait and see,
If you can still stand to love me.
Still stand to love me.