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about
This beat was made on the 27th June 2011 would you believe...!
Originally titled: “Decent idea but meh” I revived it while
looking through possible beats for this project, as I wanted to
produce everything, but was also too lazy to be making ALL
NEW beats, so to speak. When I made it, judging by the name,
I didn’t think I was on to much, I’d probably heard the break
from that Carpenters song and thought it’d make a good loop.
To be honest it wasn’t until I’d got a chorus for it that it really
started to make sense, I knew I wanted it to follow on from
“Unremarkable” but I was never sure of the first two tracks in
the early stages, maybe still now, but having played their early
incarnations to people and getting decent feedback, I thought
they could work.
Having Ange on the chorus really helped bring a nice voice
to the table and I had that bass riff in my head and sang it to
Steve when he came over to record some bits and it sounded
as good in real life as it did in my head (RARE) so pretty
chuffed with the final outcome. Ange also suggested that vocal
idea at the beginning of the second verse that kinda drops
out to change up the vibe of the track. The album was always
intended to be upbeat and positive and it could be argued this
has a level of melancholy to it but I personally feel it’s more
triumphant, I hoped people would understand it’s more about
you being amazing for just existing, than accomplishing what
society considers you should have by now.
lyrics
CHORUS
So don’t worry if you think you’re not remarkable/
Most humans think they haven’t come far at all/
And that’s the truth but don’t just take it from me...
You were made in a star and every particle/
Came together to make you the finished article/
The chance of you defies all probability (believe, so leave, it be, you’ll see)//
You are the infinitesimal un-likeliness/
The result of everything since the big bang provided us/
With all the elements that make life from dust/
And enough time to go from simple life to... “huh?”/
Somehow we perceive and have a consciousness/
But there’s a consequence, what we want is just/
Confused between our instincts from prehistoric times/
Food, shelter and passing our genetics down the line/
And modern times, how we feel, how they feel about you/
What you think, what you want, what you needed to do/
We’re the intellectual equivalent of supermarket shopping/
Too much choice, too much freedom, too much option/
Some take what they see: get straight off the aisle/
Some stand making decisions, it may take them a while/
Some of them are straight in denial and often miss out/
But I tell you I hate shopping, I’m forever in doubt/
I’m not one of the celebrities - done nothing with my life/
My accomplishments are minimal, got lucky with my wife/
I got lucky with my current job and lucky with my family/
Got lucky being born at all, but luck is not a plan B/
It’s not a fall back - it’s funny how we exist/
Just keep on plodding up a mountain of mist/
Knowing at some point: we’ll fall down off a cliff/
And your brain gets the better of you, drowns you in lists/
...You can’t relax before you tick ‘em off/
For every little job you do another sixty’s not/
I’ve discovered you’re either a pessimist with too much to do/
Or a hedonist who snoozed and he losed... lost//
CHORUS
I knew I wanted to make music for the rest of my days/
...And that’s all I’ve done and now the time is ebbing away/
And I’ve killed many projects cos they weren’t the best ones I made/
And then I wrote this stuff and still thought that the message was vague/
And recently I’ve been waking every day in a rage/
Angry at each and every thing I feel that gets in my way/
Until I realised everything I have is not here to stay/
And I should even be thankful for things that feel like a pain/
Cos feeling feelings is the very definition of life/
And needing reasons for existing’s inefficient on time/
And each and every person feels they need a piece of the pie/
They’re either greedy or they seem to lose their seat in the line/
I’ve been in pieces recently, the Grim Reaper will hide/
And wait until you breathe easy then unreasonably strike/
And leave your family devastated who plea for rewind/
...But this is all part of a human being’s design/
And we’re so quick to forget that we’re a miracle/
The statistics on people’s happiness these days is pitiful/
They’ll say you should become something to be an individual/
But you’re the original and greatest there’s ever been of you//
CHORUS
credits
from RemarkableUnremarkable (better price on ExP.uk),
released July 14, 2017
Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Ben “ExP” Goodwin
Mastered by Ben “DivKid” Wilson
Guitar/Bass by Steve Ling
Additional Vocals by Angela Goodwin
Contains samples from:
“Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” on
The Carpenters “Passage” 1977
