Bleach
from Chris Merritt:
Pixie And The Bear (2008)
disc one
I will erase my brain
I’ll have a blank in the A: drive
There is a giant blue stain
Still on my heart I don’t know why
I thought that you cared
It’s not that I’m upset, but I thought that you cared
It’s not that I’m upset
I’m gonna flush my blood
Get all the bruises out
I’m gonna flush my blood
Get all that poison out
I thought that you cared
It’s not that I’m upset, but I thought that you cared
It’s not that I’m upset
We fell asleep in your bedroom back in the summer
All right, okay, well I’m sorry for the unrest
I think you get off on it
It hurts bad, I know
I do too
You know what? Do you know what I think? you get off on it
I’m gonna bleach my bones
I don’t even know what that means
But I’m gonna bleach my bones
Again, I don’t know what that means
I thought that you cared
It’s not that I’m upset, but I thought that you cared
It’s not that I’m upset
We should have stayed in the ocean all through the winter
All right, okay, well I’m sorry for the unrest
I think you get off on it
It hurts bad, I know
Well I know, yeah
You know what I think? you get off on it
You made me think that I was crazy – well I’m a happy little lunatic alone
And it was starting to phase me – I did my best when you were crying on the phone
You were the sweetest of the daisies – but you were growing on the hardest of stone
You were the sweetest of the daisies – but you were growing on the hardest of stone
You make no sense
Not even a little bit
Bleached, the last track on this side of the record, is a fade-in continuation of the fade-out end of Bleach. I heard Third Eye Blind do it and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I programmed these sounds using LSDJ for Nintendo GameBoy (an original gray one) and by programming
directly into an old SNES compiler and using an emulator. Check out Bleached for even more 8-bit stuff.
Original demo in “Media”.
There are all these posers that use these cheesy, easy-to-use, watered-down programs for like Nintendo DS now. It bugs me.
Just because you have 8-bit sounds doesn’t make it cool. It has to make sense melodically/musically, and you can have fun
with the retro context as well, but most people just make lame little dance beats and boring non-riffs and think they are cool.
But to their credit, the stupid masses can’t really tell the difference, so I guess I’m the one with egg on my face.
Original demo:
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