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Blink: 10th Anniversary Remix (fdm122)

by Chris Anderson

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1.
Used Car 05:35
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open, the scene is in a used car driven so open, maybe too far there we were, hoping to be seen alive - alive dust bowl, the envy of this mad rush to breathe or not, it's something we must believe before we hit the big crush lies - all lies you've known it you're not the first to see it just how beautiful the lights are, here tonight you've shown it but still we can't believe our eyes rainclouds will never carry me far too bad it's not the ever after where we dissolve into the ether high - high stigma is nothing we can shed off when we are thinking that we're so tough these eyes erupt into a field of lies, all lies you've known it you're not the first to see it just how beautiful the lights are, here tonight you've shown it but still we can't believe our eyes drifting in/out of every season could be but maybe not the reason sad songs, they work as well as books of lies, all lies enough, we've had it, now we're done, yeah renew, rebirth, and redirect, yeah belief, it's something to be shown the light, that light you've known it you're not the first to see it just how beautiful the lights are, here tonight you've shown it but still we can't believe our eyes -2/1/10
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Wither 04:17
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watch what you say as you wither away don't come off lost or inflated or cross silence is gold but sometimes it's a curse but who am i now to be wondering how it's a line, it's a line we are feeding on in good time, in good time, we'll be moving on what would you do if it wasn't in front of you would you adlib your lines and pretend that you're fine or would you just choke in the swirl of verbal smoke or cover your face and retreat from the race it's a line, it's a line we are feeding on in good time, in good time, we'll be moving on how would you feel if you gave up the steering wheel? would you think it was wise to look though some other's eyes would you prefer to lie still or be stirred? it's a matter of poise, how rotten the noise it's a line, it's a line we are feeding on in good time, in good time, we'll be moving on watch what you say as you wither away -2/2/10
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Squeeze 04:26
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i had a dream such a crazy kind of dream last night where the mountains flickered like a flashlight pools of snakes and shiny things and diamond rings and the choir gathered up to sing sweet hallelujah songs amidst the caterwauls they're longing for the dust and i swear i heard the big dam bust i toss and i turn with the cross that i burn with the load that i carry every day still here on the ground when there's no one around st. peter's always turning me away "come back in a day when you're old and you're grey maybe, if you've got the guts to stay i had a dream such a crazy kind of dream i walked through the storm and i shattered all the crossbeams in the cold, in the garden of the old i danced and i sang until the morning bells rang hallelujah, i shook off that old cliche and wiped my eyes of all the blackened disarray i swear i heard her walk away i toss and i turn with the cross that i burn with the load that i carry every day still here on the ground when there's no one around st. peter's always turning me away "come back in a day when you're old and you're grey maybe, if you've got the guts to stay i had a dream such a simple kind of dream i was lying in a field and pretending that i was the king and all the ghosts and reminders rode away and they waited for the moment to stage another squeeze play hallelujah, it ain't nothing but a scheme of my subconscious, lost inside the shepherd's dream that's when i heard the exit theme i toss and i turn with the cross that i burn with the load that i carry every day still here on the ground when there's no one around st. peter's always turning me away "come back in a day when you're old and you're grey maybe, if you've got the guts to stay -2/3/10
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Breathe 04:22
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we can hold the silence in the foothills that we climb you and i can taste the gold and wait until the light dance a do-si, fire song amidst the howling moon or take a moment out to breathe between two lazy afternoons we breathe between the sheets we leave these feeble weeds we see there's nothing more we need we can build on nothing they say nothing comes for free but i would blow through millions if they were in front of me you and i, we have our jokes a language, names, and ways yeah, nothing is as righteous as those moments when we steal away we breathe between the sheets we leave these feeble weeds we see there's nothing more we need nothing lasts forever but i beg to disagree tell that to the matter that comprises you and me if love is a time bomb then i'd say i had no use and dismantle the charge and burn my fingers on the fuse -2/2/10
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Alamosa 08:55
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kicking up dust on the road fifteen miles from alamosa come quick, the rust in the dirty field where nothing hardly grows there thirty below it's a good day to watch the fire glow thirty below it's a good way to keep you on your toes you can see the storm raging down the road just north of alamosa seventeen, san luis is quiet and as barren as the tundra thirty below it's a good day to watch the fire glow thirty below it's a good way to keep you on your toes alamosa smiles and tilts her crown she likes to watch the blood spill from the mountains to the east alamosa knows she's barely just a diamond in the dust like the rio grande all that flows moves on down south from alamosa where the highway cries that same old song we sang when we dropped the rose there thirty below it's a good day to watch the fire glow thirty below it's a good way to keep you on your toes -2/2/10
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See For Yourself 05:09
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when it's cold, i settle in when it's hot, i settle down sometimes i settle for a stolen moment on the floor and as the seasons move it's all that i can do to open up the door you've seen it all before you'll probably deal with it some more it's true when the stormy weather breaks me down i realize that you're still around i realize that you said back then that you're never going anywhere you, there ain't a lot that you won't do and so, my dear, i gotta say i love you you can see for yourself it's true in the song that i sing for you open doors may pull me in beyond my withered, weary mind when the forecast looks just fine it's just another hidden sign the seasons always change though we're not rearranged it's always something new one ends as one begins these changes, they're not here to always be your friend but you... when the stormy weather breaks me down i realize that you're still around i realize that you said back then that you're never going anywhere you, there ain't a lot that you won't do and so, my dear, i gotta say i love you you can see for yourself it's true in the song that i sing for you sometimes i can't breathe sometimes i can't see sometimes i can feel it somewhere in the back of my mind, yeah sometimes i hold it close sometimes i let it go and sometimes i come around sometimes i'm lost and then i'm found when the stormy weather breaks me down i realize that you're still around i realize that you said back then that you're never going anywhere you, there ain't a lot that you won't do and so, my dear, i gotta say i love you you can see for yourself it's true in the song that i sing for you -2/1/10
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Blink 05:48
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so tough do you think you've seen enough of all the ways we keep erasing every day we need a song that everyone can sing along just like the one where the boss said we were born to run blink once if you can hear me blink twice if you can see me blink three times if you wanna walk out blink four times if you wanna crawl blink five times if you wanna stay and watch it all just fade away and so we're here and we're waiting for the dust to clear out in the field where they gather up and burn the yield who thought it wise to try and see it all through jaded eyes it's like a curse the way they keep the world in reverse blink once if you can hear me blink twice if you can see me blink three times if you wanna walk out blink four times if you wanna crawl blink five times if you wanna stay and watch it all just fade away alive we sent the needle into overdrive we heard them cry from the iris of the dragon's eye falling out above a whimper and beyond a shout we felt it there when were were drunk and falling down the stairs blink once if you can hear me blink twice if you can see me blink three times if you wanna walk out blink four times if you wanna crawl blink five times if you wanna stay and watch it all just fade away -2/4/10
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Speak Up 05:57
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i saw the ticker tape it said something post-impossible will come and infiltrate the scene with dirty secrets, lies, and magazines that try and bill themselves as news but no one cares, so what's the use but still it sells and sells i turn my head instead of giving hell it's just implausible a great magnificentish waste of time i started walking out when the mirror slapped my face and began to shout "speak up or you're gonna lose your mind speak up or you're gonna waste your precious time just thinking to yourself" i heard the news, oh boy it was something most peculiar but devoid of any context, just an abstract sketch of talking teeth and eyes opinions on a screen with nothing tangible to back them up just like a fountain full of gasoline let the pigeons fill their cup it's just implausible a great magnificentish waste of time i started walking out when the mirror caught my eye and made me shout "speak up or you're gonna lose your mind speak up or you're gonna waste your precious time just thinking to yourself" i saw the photos, the analyses, rebuttals, butting heads they say the camera adds a stone to every ego in the room there's nothing like the look of shame upon the face of those who fall or so the TV says when there's nothing left but cracks upon the wall it's just implausible a great magnificentish waste of time i started walking out when the mirror caught my eye and made me shout "speak up or you're gonna lose your mind speak up or you're gonna waste your precious time just thinking to yourself" -2/1/10
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Old 78's 04:45
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i'm sittin' here, spinnin' old 78s i got a tall glass of water and too much on my plate i wanna get back now to the way taht it was when the whole wide world fit inside of my buzz we got a good thing now there's no room for debate but still i pull out another old 78 i gotta know right now is this the way it'll be when there's nothing left standing but the records and me how high the moon, how high the wall it flutters like a junebug underneath the weight of it all when the sun goes down it's only half past late but the one o'clock jumped to a quarter to eight i feel like a kid with a rip in my pants i got the fox trot fever but you know i don't dance i got the sugar foot strut at the jazz band hall i heard the theme to the west at the carnival i'm sittin' here, spinnin' old 78s i got a tall glass of water and too much on my plate i wanna get back now to the way taht it was when the whole wide world fit inside of my buzz we got a good thing now there's no room for debate but still i pull out another old 78 i gotta know right now is this the way it'll be when there's nothing left standing but the records and me i'm in the mood to hear a sweet melody a sinner kissed an angel and her name was marie she got a little bit of heaven in her tonic and gin you know i'll never say "never again" again i would get sentimental but i don't know the time lover come back, rosalie, it's a crime you oughta be in pictures by the way that you walk solid sam and smokey mary said it's all just talk i'm sittin' here, spinnin' old 78s i got a tall glass of water and too much on my plate i wanna get back now to the way taht it was when the whole wide world fit inside of my buzz we got a good thing now there's no room for debate but still i pull out another old 78 i gotta know right now is this the way it'll be when there's nothing left standing but the records and me my mother was a lady but she never got far it's a lonesome old town, you and my old guitar... -2/3/10
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Giving Up The Ghost 05:46
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if every circle isn't round it's still a circus in this beat-up, weathered town beyond their sights, we hit the ground and we're running out of reasons to stick around and every time we move out of the light and every time we wait until another night every time we think about our place we're giving up the ghost just to see his face and every time we run instead of crawl and every time we're backed up against the wall every time we drop out of the race we're giving up the ghost just to see his face we feel the yearn, we feel the haste to break this cycle just to step around the waste ten thousand movements of your face tell another story, another bitter taste and every time we lose the woods for trees and every time we run just to feel the breeze every time we're gone without a trace we're giving up the ghost just to see his face and every time we fall out of the sky and every time we take it but don't wonder why every time we lose sight of her grace we're giving up the ghost just to see his face this fever's not the hurtin' kind we take the boards down from the windows but we claim that we're not blind if everyone is feeling fine then why do we keep drawing darker lines and every time we move out of the light and every time we wait until another night every time we think about our place we're giving up the ghost just to see his face and every time we run instead of crawl and every time we're backed up against the wall every time we drop out of the race we're giving up the ghost just to see his face and every time we lose the woods for trees and every time we run just to feel the breeze every time we're gone without a trace we're giving up the ghost just to see his face and every time we fall out of the sky and every time we take it but don't wonder why every time we lose sight of her grace we're giving up the ghost just to see his face and every time we shout instead of talk and every time we crouch instead of walk every time we blindly join the chase we're giving up the ghost just to see his face and every time we break instead of bend and every time we choke in the slightest wind every time we change our mood and pace we're giving up the ghost just to see his face -2/2/10
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Movin' On 04:15
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i've seen that face a million times before every time i see the mirror i just turn and hit the door mary, she's a beauty, but she never wears her wings and sometimes she collides within the circus that she brings and still i sing that same old song those words belonging to another place and time perhaps we'd better move along there's nothing wrong but there's another hill to climb and so i'm movin' on best be gettin' gone i'm movin' on into the light i'm movin' on best be gettin' gone tonight before i waste it all just tryin' to get it right i've played these chords a million times before every time a melody creeps in, just begging me for more sweet mary can be scary when she wears her stolen crown that she pulled off from that beggar everyone has seen around and still i sing that same old song i switch it up but it's the one that lets me be perhaps i'd better move along there's nothing wrong but still there's nothing here for me and so i'm movin' on best be gettin' gone i'm movin' on into the light i'm movin' on best be gettin' gone tonight before i waste it all just tryin' to get it right i've talked this talk a million times before and every time i talk, i see 'em scatter from the floor and mary, so contrary, how she burned that mother down if you're quiet for a second, you can hear it in the sound when i sing that same old song i get confused, i lose the words, and mumble on it just cannonballs along it's time to stop and stumble to the dawn and so i'm movin' on best be gettin' gone i'm movin' on into the light i'm movin' on best be gettin' gone tonight before i waste it all just tryin' to get it right -2/4/10
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Yeah Yeah 05:00
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crawling out on sunday morning to watch the sun rise in the snow we set a blaze without a warning and still we didn't know where to go your eyes were wondrous that night your eyes were marvelous that day yeah, yeah set adrift on an open sea between the eyes of two hurricanes i cannot say what came over me coz i don't believe in anything your eyes were wondrous that night your eyes were marvelous that day yeah, yeah there was no talk, there was no being there was just something never said it stood right there, we didn't see it or was it in my head your eyes were wondrous that night your eyes were marvelous that day yeah, yeah -2/1/10

about

Chris Anderson's 81st full-length album release, and first-ever remix/reissue.

So the story goes....the first day of February 2010 and it was time to get started on that year's RPM Challenge, which was my 4th. The first week of that month featured a great deal of songwriting. 18 songs were written in the first seven days of the month, which also featured one of the most intense blizzards this area has ever seen. On the eighth day....I slipped on ice and shattered my ankle. Given the weather and state of the roads ans such, it was several days before I could even see a surgeon, and another week before I could have the surgery. So I spent that down time recording most of those new songs. I had to alter my setup - I couldn't quite sit crosslegged on the floor with a shattered ankle, so I sat at my desk, as still as I could be (any movement would rattle my bone fragments like dice in a Yahtzee cup), completely whacked out of my gourd on painkillers, and I blasted through these new songs. 14 of them were recorded and mixed before going under the knife which was wise since, after my surgery, I was pretty much useless for over a month.

I originally wanted to call the album Giving Up The Ghost and I had a cover idea in mind which would feature a sepia-toned photo of me, dressed in old time garb, laying on my back with giant 19th century pennies on my eyes - macabre, I know, but still pretty awesome. That was not possible and I wanted to go for something totally different, aesthetically, so I quickly came up with the original blue & yellow sleeve with the simple title of Blink.

For an album created under such odd circumstances, the material on this album is surprisingly strong. Lots of catchy poppy songs, a few interesting experiments, and some songs that stuck around in rotation for a long time. The only issue I had was that the mix was very flat and the album was far too quiet. Over the years I made a few attempts to rectify that with mastering - boosting volume, tweaking the EQ, stuff like that. Unfortunately the issues were at the root so, given the landmark of a decade passing, the only choice was to remix it from the ground up. That also gave me a chance to change the drum settings, from the old "live" sound that I used to use to the tighter drum sound I now use. Tightening up the drum sound allowed the rest of the instrumentation to open up which made the tracks sound a lot bigger than before. I constantly resisted temptation to add new recordings to the tracks. I could have added a few things, replaced a few others, revised a lyric or two, but I decided that the songs themselves should remain intact, as it is a snapshot of its time. There were a few changes, in the editing department, most noticeably in the extended ending of "Breathe". While it fades out on the original version of the album, it turns out that the actual recording goes on for more than a minute longer than the original released version, and the jam descends into absolute madness before it ends. I decided to leave that in for this version of the album because while it stands in contrast to the more accessible nature of this album it also perfectly captures the spirit of those times.

I wrestled with the idea of adding bonus tracks for this remix but decided against it in the end. Of the six leftover songs, only two of them were recorded during the sessions and both were remixed and released on other albums in recent years - "Fever Dream" appeared on Begging For The Dawn in 2017 while "Light Of My Life" appeared on 2019's rarities comp, Bastards In The Arcade. The other four songs exist in demo form - available on What (bg086) - but those tracks would have sounded weird alongside these recordings, so it was decided that the album should remain intact.

While it is very possible that this new mix is a bit too much, it is still awesome to hear it sounding closer than ever to how I heard it in my head all those years ago.

-CA, 8/12/20

credits

released August 14, 2020

"produced" by Chris Anderson
Recorded in The Sidebar, February 2010
For the RPM Challenge
Mixed in The Room, March 2020

CA: acoustic & electric guitars, bass, mandolin, drum programming, percussion, vocals, other shit.


All songs written by Chris Anderson
(c) CA / Flying Dachshund Music (BMI)


Special thanks to my beloved Krissy.



(p) (c) 2010/2020 Chris Anderson / Flying Dachshund Music. All rights reserved. Violators will be buried alive somewhere outside Alamosa.

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Chris is a wildly prolific songwriter who has hovered among the outskirts of the music world for over 30 years. On his own label, Flying Dachshund Music, Chris has released 154 CDs, 96 of them being full-length albums. That's just the tip of the iceberg and there are no signs of stopping. Ever.

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