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'Mercy Killing' - Contest Demo (Spintunes #1 Rd 3)

from Invisible Girl by D

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    I released this last minute as a "shadow" entry in the First ever Spintunes Song Contest. It was one of those One Take sorts of recordings, not really mastered at all.

    There is a video for this, similar to the other sorts of videos I was doing at the time:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVW7OaG2cA&feature=channel_video_title
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about

a few of these lyrics were written in 2008 and were waiting to be torn up and repurposed.
This was the challenge:
(spintunes.blogspot.com/2010/07/spintunes-1-round-3-challenge.html)

I don't know what I feel about this song anymore, particularly since the "me-too" era and all the things that have happened since the year 2010 when I put this song out. It can’t help but be from my perspective so I have complicated feelings about it all. Comparatively, collective minds have opened up concerning gender, sexuality, and the way we discuss things. But back then, here is what I wrote about it, at the time, on the Spintunes bandcamp page

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This song is about a few things.

1. The birth of doubt. Doubt of all kinds, both general and specific
2. The birth and youth of my specific doubt
3. Cowardice, ignorance, and passing the buck
4. The subject of abortion, from a woman’s perspective.. not for or against- just that it’s terrible, tragic, hard, awful, and heartbreaking.
5. Suicide. We know for sure, at least, that it IS a death.

In a way, the whole song is about apathy, fatigue, sexuality, birth, death, and choice.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I live in Texas now, in 2023 so Today I will just say
Ps.
Abortion can still be safe and legal—for all people who need it regardless of income, race, religion, gender identity, or political philosophy.
www.ineedana.com

lyrics

meet me at the back of the alley, mr. x
you know what it's for, but it's not for that
better make it fast ... think I paid enough for the
mercy killing.

i changed my mind -
i don't really wanna know how it's gonna go down
i think maybe i'd like a lotta people around
so gun me down ...

... in a crowd
then just fade out
and i won't hear the sounds
from your mercy killing

when i decide that it's time
i don't wanna hide
i wanna do this right
remove the option
and give someone else a try
why shouldn't i?

i .......

maybe i'll give a little signal if I panic
if i'd like my dreams back

meet me at the back of the alley, mr. x
you know what it's for
this time it's for that
now i think that this time i might really
want .........

credits

from Invisible Girl, track released August 13, 2010
Denise Hudson. piano. vocals.


Cover:
Hieronymus Bosch
Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things

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I am DJ Ranger Den. This is the main musician alias for Denise Hudson. She is neither DJ or Ranger. Things change and develop around here a lot.

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