"Your Ontario Town is a Burial Ground" - Used in a film/tv or techno remix?

David Gold

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In our lifetimes, could you imagine the song "Your Ontario Town is a Burial Ground" being used in an Ontario film production or an Ontario based television series? How about a hard hitting techno dance remix? How about a hip-hop remix? Could the same lyrics translate into urban music and retain a similar meaning?

Please discuss. [5 points]



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OupMgo_pIBI&feature=related[/ame]

WOODS OF YPRES - "Your Ontario Town is a Burial Ground"

Ever since I was born in a northern town
I've been digging myself out
From a time when I hadn't seen
Anything worth remembering

I would aspire to better life
To feast my eyes and expand my mind
I'd lie awake, I could not wait
To leave this place behind

Your Ontario town is just a burial ground
For old friends
Your Ontario town is just a burial ground

Inspired by hopelessness
From where my discontent once began
I miss the nature and the wilderness
But not the people there

As old stores will close their doors
Other ones may change their names
But old friends still live their lives
Where I would have died of shame
Your Ontario town is just a burial ground
For old friends
Your Ontario town is just a burial ground

You say that you grew up
You say that you tried
I think you took the easy way out
I say you gave up
I say you died

You'll say that you're content
You'll say there's no regrets
But I think you took the easy way out
For if you're not dreaming anymore
You're already dead

What a shame for those who chose
To be wasted in the north
What a shame to know nothing more
Than the town where you were born
Your Ontario town is just a burial ground
For old friends
Your Ontario town is just a burial ground

Kick over the stone that bares your name
I spit on the snow that covers your grave

I see more potential in this one.

DG - \w/ :kickass:
 
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If you're ever looking to do an electronic remix I'd love to give it a go. I can totally see this song in an industrial/EBM context. I don't see why the same meaning and vibe couldn't translate across genres.
 
:kickass:

I'll give a techno remix a shot. I think this could really work.

Awesome idea, David
 
David, you gonna post the individual instruments? I am really interested in this since the the riff is really good for a remix.