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SLIPPING
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"My request is a little bit different from normal, but something I hope fits your style. I'd like this song to be made nearly entirely of 'found sound' from your area- anything from creaking doors to engines to halogen lights to wind. The theme is up to you, but to get you started I might suggest day/night cycles. Lyrics as necessary"
-PTTG (paid)
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 time | object
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0'00" | a small mechanical clock
0'00" | a hand drill
0'06" | a cordless electric screwdriver
0'06" | water being poured onto an extremely hot metal surface
0'24" | kick - a big cardboard box open at one end being hit
0'24" | bass - a lathe motor running with the mechanics detached
0'40" | arp - the same lathe running with the drive belt tightened
0'40" | singing - the guy who was in the cardboard box when i found it
0'40" | a bicycle bell
0'40" | snare - a carrot being cut on a wooden chopping board
0'48" | pad - more lathe
0'48" | a boatswain's call
1'10" | cymbals/open hi-hat - the trailing edge of the water onto hot metal sample
1'11" | closed hi-hat - a low-decay section of the water sample and also trenchfoot
1'44" | bell arp - a double-edged hand saw
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i've been slipping out of sync
i've been sleeping out of sync

i've been slipping out of sync
and every time i blink
it's like my mind is undergoing an attack again

and when i have returned
i think "by now i should have learned"
i fall away again
i suddenly come back again

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CHORUS
i'm out of sync
the world is losing hours every day
i fall behind
the clock inside me badly misaligned

but life goes on
i'm waking up at six PM, i fall asleep at ten
and i can't get in sync again
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i've been slipping out of sync
i've been sleeping out of sync

on average, i would say
i've lost three hours every day
that means my months are consequently three days shorter

and every time i go around
i think there must be solid ground
before i know it i have lost another quarter

i'm out of sync

i'm out of sync
i'm out of sync

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CHORUS
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