S2E2: Smooth E-Boy

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On Episode Two, we catch up with Bug Hunter's drummer Kyle Hodgkinson to talk about college hijinks -- and get a couple of song prompts!

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --
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Challenge: Change one letter of one of the other's song
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BUG'S SONG
Title: Both
Lyrics:
Dear captain Stanley I hope this note finds me well
I hope you're reading this tomorrow from inside my empty cell
the bars won't budge at all and all the guards they watch me well

oh Captain Stanley I just really have to say
after I dodged you in dubai and cleared your checkpoint in LA
I began to thing that you just liked to watch me get away
which you'll be doing...

Soon as I get this door unlocked
well as soon as I get this bar removed
or as soon as I bribe this guard outside

I'm finally screwed! My Game to lose
I was the best there ever was at what I did (but so were you)
I'm finally screwed! I have no chance
I am the fattest, slowest rat in a castle full of cats

It came down to freedom or to gold
I got caught 'cause I tried to choose both

Oh captain Stanley I think you have proved your point
this staring contest through the bars won't serve a purpose in this joint
and the sniper pointed at me, well, is certainly a choice

but Captain Stnaley you seem to forget
There's a reason there's 100 million bounty on my head
all the governments have sought me but no one has claimed me yet

so as soon as I (pow!)
well maybe if I (ping!)
uh... oh... noooooo

I'm finally screwed! Here comes the noose
I was the best there ever was at what I did (but so were you)
I'm finally screwed! I had my chance
Now I'm the fattest, slowest rat in a castle full of cats

A final fatal path forked in my road
I got caught 'cause I tried to choose both
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MATT'S SONG
Title: Piano Beacher
Lyrics:
driftwood body and razorclam keys
sea glass pedals and mica dust shimmer and shine
come sing with me
i want to break you open like a scallopshell
figure out what makes you sound so beautiful

all i know are the simplest chords
triads fifths and rootnotes, but you make them more
come sing with me
i want to peer inside you with a microscope

you washed up here from god only knows where
in perfect tune and i can't bear to not understand things
so here i go once again
you think i'd have learned it by now man
some things shouldn't be figured out and
by peeking behind every curtain you find
sometimes
you see what you shouldn't
some remedies don't need a hammer
some mysteries don't have an answer
but when all you have is a scalpel
then everything looks like a cadaver

driftwood body and razorclam keys
beach piano, all covered in seaweed and salt
come sing with me
i want to crack you open just to see your pearl
i want to learn what makes you sound so beautiful

you washed up here from god only knows where
in perfect tune and i can't bear to not understand things
so here i go once again
you think i'd have thought to correct it
you can't keep the frog and dissect it
by cutting the guts out of everything
all you get is blood on the carpet
some remedies don't need a hammer
some mysteries don't have an answer
but when all you have is a scalpel
then everything looks like a cadaver