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Brick
There’s an exhibition of my inhibition
Showing in a cupboard in the room down the hall
Hopes of selling out have come to no fruition
Probably ’cos the paintings are all face into the wall
But I find her so appealing that I can’t make my appeal
And you can’t say what you’re feeling when you don’t know how you feel
It’s no fun being in love with a brick
Maybe if she got to get to know me better
She would see it’s me that her life really lacks
Maybe I should try to write it in a letter
But then I wouldn’t get to see the way she reacts ...
Maybe I’ve just got a dodgy transmitter
My kisses and hugs seem to bite her and hit her
And that leaves me feeling all worthless and bitter
But maybe she’s just got a dodgy receiver
She says that she cares, but I don’t quite believe her
’Cos each time I leave her it seems to relieve her
There’s an exhibition of my inhibition
But I doubt that I’ll ever get a red dot
Due to recent showings, it’s in poor condition
’Cos inhibitions hate being stared at a lot ...
© Mal Webb 1994-2012
I wrote this song in about 1994 when my sister Cath
struggling with the idea of putting on an exhibition, whence I got the
idea for an "inhibition" of art, presented in a hidden cupboard (very
hipster, in a post modern way!) She did exhibit in the end, with great
success. Essentially Brick is more about communication struggles in
relationships. Yes, the word "Brick" is often missheard as "prick", but
that kinda works in the song too! I arranged it for the Oxo Cubans in
clumsy ska groove and we played it many times but never recorded it.
Around 2003 I came up with a guitar version, around which all the
chords are the notes A, B and E with different bass notes undernaeth
(every note is used except Bb, which is horrid!) But I really got
excited when I came up with the idea of the shifting loops. The 3
beatbox loop layers (spitty crunch, cloppy clicks and straight Ps and
Bs) are 16 beats long and run for the whole song... simple! BUT the
"one" (the first beat of the groove) is shifted by what the voice and
other instruments do, such that throughout the song, nearly every one
of the 16ths is felt as the one as some point! And the middle
instrumental section goes from 16 to 15 to 14 to 13 to 12 to 11 to 10
to 9 to 8 beats (Kylie and I had to practice that part A LOT!) But my
aim was to make it so all that complexity washes over you unless you
actually listen in for. Let me know what you think! Oh, and the ambient
loop is 17 beats long... just for fun!
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