Trip trip trip on the trolley

Here’s some rhythmic chaos badly sung with too much enthusiasm backwards once and forward twice and forward once and backwards twice.

Jammed yesterday with Peter Ball, the Apartment One musical consortium.

I didn’t like my voice on the first try so Peter turned the track backward and used it as rhythm for our second attempt. Then we added a third track. So cut one is two tracks forward over one track backwards.

Then he reversed the whole thing so cut two is two backward tracks over one forward track. It’s rather difficult listening at first (at times unpleasant) but it all gets more rhythmically interesting as it disintegrates.

Not that I would say either is good or enjoyable. They are what they is. Different.

I liked the first version in initial playback (though not the 2nd) but absolutely intensely unequivocally hated both when I got home and listened again. I cringed. But this morning I find while both begin badly, they degenerate into a rather crude nasty sweetness.

But I could be wrong . . . it may be just the sweet sun shining through our third floor window falling on my sun-starved face.

Proufound & Lost Department: 2 forwards over 1 backward: reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12821367.

Proufound & Lost Department: 2 backwards over 1 forward: reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12821378.

ProFound & Lost Department

Trip trip trip on the trolley
Bet bet bet on the bang
World wide weird really wobbly
Everybody heading for the hang

Be glad in sadness since sadness abounds
From earth’s first flatness till tomorrow’s surround
Be spark in darkness, be kind in the rough
Lessen life’s starkness, tender the tough

   Look for the am, give thanks for the journey
   Forgive the sham and work on the worry
   Look for the sham, give thanks for the worry
   Forgive the am and work on the journey

Find silver lining, there’s joy around
To be one living, to walk higher ground
In dark of the day best make your own light
Wrest worry away, don’t beget blight

Fight for the funness, brighten the road
Promulgate oneness, lighten the load
Keep your head up as you run it all down
Go for the full cup, not collapse into clown

   Thanks for the journey and its poignant plan
   I wrestle with worry while working on am
   Thanks for the worry and its poignant am
   I wrestle with journey while working on plan

— Smith, poem 4.2011, rewritten & chorus added 4.2012

42 Ball & Smith songs available for listening or free download at reverbnation.com/MutantSmith.