Bottom of the Well

from Rough Time Demos by Jesse LeBourdais

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First track from the forthcoming EP, Rough Time Demos. Recorded at home during the pandemmy and produced with the highest levels of 2007 technology and plug-ins, which is all my old recording laptop can handle.

The song itself originates from watching the episode of the Simpson's where Bart pretends to fall down a well and then actually falls down a well. Having spent most of my 20's thinking it was cool to be poor and broke all the time, and then landing at the end of my 30's poor and broke all the time, I though it was a good metaphor.

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I've been falling in a well of my own design, and I've been drowning in the water. I've been taking all the ropes they've been dropping me and turning them to useless art. I ain't listened to advice I've been given, cuz I don't wanna hear that shit anyway. So at the bottom of the well is where I stay.

It's really not too bad down here, there is always lots to drink! Everyone leaves me alone or brings something to eat. In the middle of the night, when it's dark and when it's cold, I swear I hear the voices of other people who have fallen and are living at the bottom but still just staring at the sky. It's about as much as we can see anyway. No, it ain't lonely at the bottom of the well.

I've been falling in a well of my own design, and I've been drowning in the water. I've been taking all the ropes they've been dropping me and turning them to useless art. I ain't listened to advice I've been given, cuz I don't wanna hear that shit anyway. So at the bottom of the well is where I stay, or at least just for another couple days.

But if I'm being honest there is some things that I would change. Not much room to move down here or space to re-arrange, but I guess I should have thought of that, when I was up above but I had made all my decisions and I wasn't gonna budge. So the nights keep getting longer and with it comes the cold. All those other voices are starting to get old, they tell the same stories and I'm getting fucking bored.

I've been falling in a well of my own design, and I've been drowning in the water. I've been taking all the ropes they've been dropping me and turning them to useless art. I ain't listened to advice I've been given, cuz I don't wanna hear that shit anyway. So at the bottom of the well is where I stay but maybe you could check on me in a couple days.

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from Rough Time Demos, released January 4, 2022
Guitar, Piano, Bass, Vocals, and Whistle Solo - Jesse LeBourdais
Mixed by Jesse LeBourdais
Artwork by Jesse LeBourdais and Denise Cymbalist

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Jesse LeBourdais Vancouver, British Columbia

Punk rocker/folk singer, now an author, apparently.

Breaking strings and writing words since 1998.

New Single "We Howl" out March 1st, 2024

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