Carnage Carnival (Blackjackalope feat. Scurvy Rickets)
Featured on the album Carnage Carnival.
Carnage Carnival starts off with an atmospheric, fast-paced groove that slows and slows and lands into the hook which was the starting point for what became one of the most unique and sophisticated songs I’ve worked on to date.
Mickey (Black Jackalope) had sent me a memo recording of him singing the hook acapella and told me a bit about what the song was about. The next morning, Justus (Becker, my partner's oldest son) played a beautiful and moody piece on the piano that caught my ear and I immediately put the two together in my head. It was fairly quick work to record Justus on my electric keyboard and arrange a hip hop song around it. I love to use orchestral instruments with hip hop - clarinets and bassoons, cellos and violins, trombones and horns, and of course the piano. I used the bassoon in particular to flesh out a melody that could drift over, around, and down below Justus’ arpeggio.
We wrote our verses. We performed and recorded them, giving each other feedback and encouragement. It was crazy fun. The song has a unique sound, and a potent message, and eventually weaves itself into a moody, groovy tapestry of sound and song.
Reflection got these people stressing
second guessing theyself
I always see you staring, I'd be happy to help
if you you could only just acknowledge,
You're a blessing, yourself
There'd be no need for this
Carnage carnival…I see you staring at the air not caring
A crack in your armor needs repairing
Not sharing, tearing at the seems
Of the threads that keep us pairing
Bearing you down and I’ll fall in a heap
At your feet cause I can’t stop caring
Or daring to hope that this time around
We can talk, no tempers flaring
I see you caught the disease
A silent killer it seams
We cannot find a relief
If you cannot find it in me
If you cannot find it in me
Then let it beReflection got these people stressing
second guessing theyself
I always see you staring, I'd be happy to help
if you you could only just acknowledge,
You're a blessing, yourself
There'd be no need for this
Carnage carnival…See I been movin', runnin', on my way to get to you
Just to break your ego that's the only way to get to you
Told you I was fading slowly that did not mean shit to you
I feel alive when I'm by your side but I don't wanna speak to you
Like cool, cool, what do I do? I got lost all in your sauce
That's true, true, but what about you? You won't flinch to be a bitch
But who, who, who do I blame? When we both do the same old thing
I lose you, but I don't want to. but I don't see no other place for meWe think of ourselves, we lean on ourselves
We bleed on each other, we steal from each otherAnd we can go from sex, drugs, and rock n' roll
To something with a substance, feed your mortal soul
Look, I can stick to spittin' bout the icky and murder songs
But I'm just tryin' to tell you if you wit me we on to somethin'.Reflection got these people stressing
second guessing theyself
I always see you staring, I'd be happy to help
if you you could only just acknowledge,
You're a blessing, yourself
There'd be no need for this
Carnage carnival…We think of ourselves, we lean on ourselves
We bleed on each other, we steal from each otherMovin', runnin', on my way to get to you
Just to break your ego that's the only way to get to you
Movin', runnin', on my way to get to you
Just to break your ego that's the only way
That's the only wayThere's no need for this
There's no need for this
Carnage
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