The guitarist that I play music with and our working on two new arrangements. The first is "Non-Contradiction Suite for Power Trio", we are two movements into that thus far and we are introducing a few new ideas. For the second arrangement, we will be utilizing a bass singer that is singing an octave below the typical range. For lyrics, we are compiling some very interesting poems from various writers. The first poem is called "To a Baby Born Without Limbs" by Kingsley Amis. It is a very witty mockery of god from god's perspective speaking to an infant born without limbs, you may get a kick out of it.
This is just to show you whose boss around here.
It’ll keep you on your toes, so to speak,
Make you put your best foot forward, so to speak,
And give you something to turn your hand to, so to speak.
You can face up to it like a man,
Or snivvle and blubber like a baby.
That’s up to you. Nothing to do with Me.
If you take it in the right spirit,
You can have a bloody marvelous life,
With the great rewards courage brings,
And the beauty of accepting your LOT.
And think how much good it’ll do your Mum and Dad,
And your Grans and Gramps and the rest of the shower,
To be stopped being complacent.
Make sure they baptise you, though,
In case some murdering bastard
Decides to put you away quick,
Which would send you straight to LIMB-O, ha ha ha.
But just a word in your ear, if you’ve got one.
Mind you DO take this in the right spirit,
And keep a civil tongue in your head about Me.
Because if you DON’T,
I’ve got plenty of other stuff up My sleeve,
Such as Leukemia and polio,
(Which incidentally your welcome to any time,
Whatever spirit you take this in.)
I’ve given you one love-pat, right?
You don’t want another.
So watch it, Jack.
We will be removing the final line along with a number of others, do to the fact that we found them either unnecessary or too tricky to squeeze in timing wise. The music is written entirely around the poem but it is based on the infant's perspective. It's been the most difficult yet in terms of timing and changes. It's relevance to this thread is the fact that I've been and am still trying to play it all of the way through without getting entirely tongue (finger) twisted. I hope some of you may get a kick out of it.