Monday, May 4, 2020

New Song - I've Seen the Worst in You (Gumi)

Hey, everybody! I hope you all are hanging in there. It's a strange time, for sure. You know, in school, you learn about wars, The Great Depression, and going way, way back, The Black Death--but you never think about living through a period where people will learn about the things you lived through in a future history class. You just live through it, just like all those people lived through World War II.

Anyway, me and Yasuko are hunkered down while Megumi is busy writing in her home. I mean, she's been really busy. We've been passing files back and forth over the Internet since we can't be together in one space.

We've just wrapped up Megumi's latest song, I've Seen the Worst in You. She wanted kind of a shoegazy sound to it, so we added a bunch of reverb and delays, and Megumi added a really heavy guitar on the track. Megumi also had her friends Ken and Kaori sing a bit of background vocals on it along with Yasuko.





I've Seen the Worst in You

I've been rejected for a long time
social distance is a daily practice of mine
If you want, I can drive your guests away
I do it every day

All I have to do is show up
then watch the roaches leave everything in the dust

Over there is a fat kid getting bullied
I don't care 'cause that fat boy stole my lunch money
It never pays to try and do a good deed
This is advice you should heed

I stop caring so long ago
I just do my best and try to keep the status quo

I've seen the worst in you
You can't hide what will always come through
You like to claim it will be great again
Fat chance! We've reached the end

Who the hell is hoarding all the toilet paper?
Pretty sad that it's coming down to neighbor vs. neighbor
I'm not surprised--but know this
I won't lose to a piece of shit

I stop caring so long ago
I just do my best and try to keep the status quo

I've seen the worst in you
You can't hide what will always come through
You like to claim it will be great again
Fat chance! We've reached the end  (x3)

I've seen the worst
It's not getting any better
I've seen the worst
It's not-
It's not-
It's not getting better