You are allowed to enjoy this…

This is more like the flipside to “Give It To You”. It’s one thing to give something away willingly than to have someone come along and take something from you. One thing I’ve learnt over the past couple of years is that there are plenty of people out there who will fuck you over for the sake of a penny. That’s what this song is about. It’s about those petty-minded simplefolk who are just rotten to their fucking core. The one’s who spend their whole life making a game of fucking people over. You know who you are. I know who you are. The thing is that I am not slave to money, you are. So fuck you, slave. I am free.
As we have young kiddiwinks in the house, I have adopted a new style of singing (if it can be called singing). It’s more lips pressed against the mike and plenty of articulation rather than the process of expelling air from my lungs. Volume is a minimum and then maximised in the recording software using plenty of EQ and gain. I hate my voice. I think it sucks. I am still of the belief that guitarists should keep their traps shut and play their fucking guitars. But sometimes you build up a body of lyrics that need to be articulated. And this is that time. So I apologise for offending your sensibilities. This glitch in the matrix will be momentary. Normal service will be resumed once the new collection of recordings is finished. Title of the new album is: “The Luckiest Man in the World”.
Here are the words to this little ditty so you can sing-along in the bouncy ball stylee…

Never Enough
The arrogance and ignorance
Means its never enough
To steal what is mine
And lie to my face
When confronted
Act like a mistake
The greed is one thing
But the games you play
And the things you say
Are beyond the pale
Didn’t you think
I could work it all out
It’s never enough
Never enough
I could give you everything I have
And you’d smile at me and extend a hand
Because it’s never enough
Never enough
You could take everything I own
And still be hungry and want more
Because it’s never enough
Never enough
Never enough
Never enough
You know the price of everything, but the value of nothing
And while you do your best to amass your pile
The more you need, the more you want
And money can buy you love and influence and power
But remember that the wages of sin is death
The learning curve gets steeper
As the malevolence gets deeper
But this is an education
You can’t afford to buy
The thing is I can always change
But you will always stay the same
Like a book left open at the same old page
It’s never enough
Never enough
I could give you everything I have
And you’d pretend that you could be a friend
Because it’s never enough
Never enough
You could take everything I own
But you’d still leave the knife sticking out my back
Because it’s never enough
Never enough
Never enough
Never enough
Every man, woman and child has their price
From a million pounds to a bar of chocolate
In this world it appears anyone can be bought
By while you have to take the things I’ve earned
I transcend the need to worship at the shrine of the false idol: money

This is the bedding track for a song with words called “Never Enough”. The lyric concerns greed and the age-old fact that the more money you want the more money you need. So many people chase the dollar and find themselves corrupted by their need for cold, hard cash. But more so, it is about those people who will stab you in the back for the chance to screw you out of a pound.
The interesting thing about this track is that it is the first time I’ve used the Superior Drummer 2.0 software I purchased a month or so ago in order to generate the drum track. In the past, I’ve programmed the drums myself using a Boss DR880, but this new software allows me to drag and drop pre-rendered midifiles onto a grid and come up with realistic sounding drumparts on the fly. So yes, it is another way for me to cheat – so no more crappy drum programming for me, perhaps? No, I still love my DR-880 and it is good to get your hands dirty.