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Mate (1999)

by greatFox

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1.
Mediocre 04:22
You said you'd comfort me you said you'd be with me Spend your whole life with me now I can hardly see You'd never trouble me never be a burden to me Always have value to me now I can't see You said you didn't want me to be a mediocre man Couldn't stand to see me as a mediocre man But if I were always with you even though all we've been through I could very gladly be a mediocre man I'm floating without your love can't focus without your love No direction without your love and you're so high above Say you're OK without my love you can deal without my love Was all a burden all along my love so high above
2.
Syndrome 04:49
Excuse me mister violin let me tell you About my life about my life You think your petty chores and troubles Qualify you in strife so much strife Well let me tap you on your privileged shoulder Look at what you see what you see What do your little tribulations compare to What is built in me built in me I have the syndrome I cannot walk I cannot sleep Everything hurts to me Everything you take for granted everyday I have to fight always fight Imagine what you'd have to do just to make it Through to the night to the night So stuff your chubby self and throw your Little problems to the wind to the wind What I have to do to face another day You couldn’t begin couldn’t even begin I'll see better on the night side
3.
Gave Up 05:25
4.
I can see your delusion from your eyes And that confusion on your face That I can walk around existing In my personal contradiction with myself The world could end around me And you'll never see me moving from my place Sticks and stones and missile launchers Could never get me down from my shelf I get dragged around when I'm with you I get paralyzed when I'm not I get lost when I'm looking for you But I'm in apathy when I'm not If I could just only be with you And be fully a man when I'm not I'd be strong and happy when with you And be just as well when I'm not You could say I'm only trapped in myself Just hanging on to someone else I can't even tell the difference between The world and me other and self You might be right but listen
5.
Let Us Alone 05:27
I'm sure I go against your sensibilities and purity I'm everything that you're afraid of The dirty scum of society You'd like to change me Change who I am and go away But you can't dismiss me No I'm here to stay Can't you see who I'm in love with? Can't you see who I'm in love with? Can't you see? Why can't you just let us be? Everything you see in me Warning bells go off in your head But the more you try and push me back The closer I come instead I'm not going to stay away from the one I love because of you It's too late for your tactics now There's nothing you can do
6.
If Life 04:33
Crudely-designed marked chemical stains Actions gone but thought remains Through everyday it's all the same Energy lost but nothing is gained You try so hard to deal with you Racing fears and self-doubt anew From fertile soil bitter flowers grew Nothing in life remains true If life just gets too hard don't let it get to you But through all of this there has to be A shining stone in this black I see There has to be some hope for me Crumpling stone on wounded knee And then I crack and stand alone I'll challenge you I won't atone I've found within new strength has grown And look at these bright new seeds that I've sewn
7.
Devil's Arms 05:03
The new year begins with new and sharp emotions from my mind Strange thoughts and fears intensely growing more as passes time I strive again just when I thought I had myself explained I’m starting over again just struggling to stay maintained And I was lost in devil's arms And I was lost with you I feel helpless as a child and sometimes as a child is what I am My mood and temper owns me and sometimes I don’t really give a damn I want to smash the foot of my boot into a condescending patronizing face And punch a hole in all the walls of every fucking side of this place But sometimes I just lay here and cry I don’t know where it comes from and why Someone protect me from this life From all the happens and what might
8.
Justify 04:11
I try to live up to your expectations I try to live down with your aggravation Somehow I get lost in your aggregation Brought into your life by assimilation I got something better to do than to justify myself to you Everything I do is never good enough for you Every idea is never good enough to fly All my feelings are always just beside the point You never let me up so I can fly I'm doing something better than you I want something better than you I need something more than you I can stand right up to you
9.
Too Late 05:43
You feel like a loser and you got it bad So many things going on in life Think you can live the American dream With 6 rugrats and a husband or wife You think you can get along by yourself Without a care or a life to live But you can only go so far alone Without feeling hope and a need to give Come on and dance now before it’s too late Get on the dance floor and seal your fate Come on and dance now before it’s too late It’s all on you so you better not wait You feel like the whole world will end Just because someone tells you when to go to bed You're a grown up now and you can do anything You just can't get it through their head But I can tell you when you're out on your own You're gonna want the security and freedom you had The reality of life will smack you hard And then you'll know you never really had it so bad
10.
One Weekend 04:52
Hello everyone and welcome once again to my pride To all my fears and uncertainties that I have packed inside You see I've meddled with powers and emotions that I can't control Every wrong turn and mistake I make takes it's unknown toll We got so much hours in a day So many days in a year But we got only one weekend together I feel that all of this responsibility is on me Cause you're just starting out How could you know what to do or be? What’s that you say? That I can't take all of this on my head? Then forget about what I just said and let's just go to bed
11.
(Instrumental)
12.
Scratch 04:31
Who am I to say what I can do one day Who am I to know how high or low I can go Who am I to care what happens anywhere Look inside myself or do I dare? If I have all this potential why am I stuck in this shell Or is constant frustration someone's idea of hell Everyone tells me i have so much to say But who will notice if no one pays attention anyway? I’m getting out to the light self-proclamation Where am I supposed to find the energy to be What everyone demands and expects of me I don't understand how people can face a new day How am I supposed to win when I don’t know how to play?

about

A collection of mods with vocals added, from the classic greatFox era. These files have been sweetened a bit with some modern processing, but they definitely are a bit rusty sounding, mainly due to the limitations of the mod tracker.

Oh yeah, and the vocals were recorded on the stock microphone that came with my Packard Bell. Hah! I hope you still enjoy the songs! I plan to revisit this album with a version 2.0 in the coming years. Enjoy!

credits

released June 1, 1999

Produced, arranged and performed by Todd Guilmette except where otherwise noted.

Written by Todd Guilmette except “Gave Up” written by Trent Reznor
Copyright 1992 leaving hope/tvt music.
“Gave Up” contains a sample from “Of These, Hope - Reprise” as performed by Peter Gabriel
Copyright 1989 Realworld/Virgin Records Ltd.

Composed on the Fasttracker modtracker.
Thanks to Triton productions.

Thanks to various individuals on efnet #trax, exiles, r00t and hate98.

Special thanks to Delphis. I will not forget you. --Love Todd.

Respect to all the real electronic engineers on earth, Europe and the UK, and all American devotees of the next genre. All American fools who still rock out, wake up. Rock is dead.

I get my spirituality from an electronic mentality.

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