Christopher Blog

14) Inside This Place (5:20)

Not available since 1999

Another reprieve from the negativity. It seems to ebb and flow with `Orchid.’ Unlike the previous song, I don’t get the feeling of bile rising up within me with `Inside This Place’ even though it is much more `desperate’ emotionally than `My Love.’ I remember that I wrote this song based on the drum beat from the ending of `My Love,’ except I sped it up. So, it stays true to the rules of the other 2 song cycles; borrowing from the previous song.

And just like the 2 other cycles, the third song is always palatable, yet yields some major discomfort for the author.

Aside from some rather daft shoe-horning of multi-syllabic words, I like this track.

The Pen Is Mightier Than….

The scribbling you hear in the background is me writing out lyrics of the song as I sing them.

“I thought about love, I thought about home” etc. I am writing the words in unison.

I wish I still had those pieces of paper because the scribbling is astonishingly messy. I could barely keep up with the words and keep in time with the phrasing. But it was worth the effort. It adds colour and character to a concept that’s getting bleaker by the minute.

I appropriated a drum sample from the Tapping the Vein song `Numb’ for this track. As you can tell, my sound library in 1999 was limited to whatever I could afford and local artists. But it worked.

Memories:

Drinking cold Cabernet in a bar with a cherry oak counter. Writing out the second draft of the lyrics.

Orchid Outtake: Inside This Place (Original Version)

I think this version isn’t too different from the final version I did. I think I re-recorded `Inside This Place’ to make it more hateful. That’s about it.