You already know how this one's gonna go

Got all my music software working on a new computer and ready to get back to compo! Almost caught myself just going accoustic and organic sounding on this so decided to mix it up a little bit halfway.

an axe to the trunk

would've been enough

but we let this fester

far too long

foundations built

on shallow soil

yet we're so embroiled

tension builds

blood boils

initials

carved into the bark

lost forever to the dark

how did this all start?

years rooted in resentment

all these generations spent

grasping for land

yet when we're faced

with all the rot

we wonder how it got

this bad

"99 Tree Stumps sitting on the floor. 99 Tree Stumps sitting on the floor. One came down, chopped it all around. 98 Tree Stumps sitting on the floor"

This is a different beat from normal (Not that i've ever done normal lol), comprising of a continuous drone and a arp that is very slowly but surely descending in tempo. The drone is playing a non stop c note, whilst the chords are more closer to an Augmented 4th (I don't know the exact chord, but it's mystical). Tree sound effects such as cutting, chopping and falling are present and dowsed in reverb for a wide swell effect, and soft pad sounds are added in the background to make it very unusually unsettling. Lastly towards the end we have a bit of a vocal sample that is also processed, but mostly to fill in the background. Extremely simple yes, but the weight is carried by the arp and the chords, which don't always swell on beat. Put it this way, i wanted to be different for a change. Enjoy!

vocals are kinda a vibe and many parts are improvised and i'm too tired to transcribe them tonight so here's just the chorus -

Once so proud and, now it leans so still,
Nature’s touch has crushed its will,
Roots deep in shadowed past,
Each moment, too sweet to last

trees

That is our inescapable end, sometimes met sooner, sometimes met later.

This really needed a few more takes, and I ran out of time to finish the arrangement part too

I recognize the forest’s breath

This trail was our ancient way

In the misty woods the secret safe with us

The trees stayed out of our way

When I saw this fallen stump

I knew what I had to say

And with you beside me I could

Say all the tender things I felt for you

Only the leaves and fallen logs

Observed what we wanted to be true

Between our secret love

And the forest’s misty day