This is the first (of two) parts of a piece I recorded that started as a recording of me, Rose Mase, Amber Scanlan and Seth Heart from 2009 in Amber's old Turquoise convertible behind Burger King in East Falmouth. The sound effects that make up the beat, which kind of sounds like a cash register endorsing a check, were recorded at UMass Lowell during my first semester there in fall 2009, and they include clicks, clacks, me sniffling, and other sounds. This piece, as well as its second half, includes MIDI instruments, like simulated acoustic bass, strings and other instruments forming different background ambience and/or chords.
lyrics
Rose Mase: Seventy-five seconds.
Amber Scanlan: I needa find a lighter.
RM: I have a lighter.
AS: Can I hold it? You’re scarin’--scaring the hens. I can smell Big Red from a mile away. (a characteristically Amber-style spontaneous change of voice tone) I wonder if Big Red chews Big Red gum!
Reuben Walton: Big what--Big Red what?
AS: Big Red.
RW: I know, but…why did you smell Big Red?
RM: I knew you dropped it, that’s why I didn’t give you my phone!
SH: The phone I can hold with my whole hand, I have to fuckin’ hold the lighter with this side. It’s the lighter that--
RW: Ain’t no--
RW: Yeah.
AS: I know, right? God! I don’t feel one bit bad.
RM: I would feel what.
RW: Yeah, me neither. Although…
RM: Now that you said somethin’!
RW: Now that you said somethin’! (high-pitched laugh) Oh..Yeah. I did.
RM: Stop the guy, if he won’t go shoppin’.
RW: Guy with a cart.
RM: Hang yours, by who? Yeah!
AS: Poke number two.
RW: Deuce on the poke.
AS: Quats on the Rose.
RW: I can’t believe they fucked that girl.
RM: Who?
RW: The ten-year-old.
RM: Who? Just tell me, I won’t tell anyone.
RW: The one who lives there.
AS: No they didn’t!
RW: Didn’t he say they all did?
AS: No, he was kidding.
RW: Oh.
AS: Sarcasm.
RM: Hah!
AS: Forget that. Oh, I got yelled at today!
RM: By who?
AS: It was..Cassie, some…(indistinct)
RM: Where are we goin’? Oh yeah, Seth’s 21! High five, Seth. Happy Birthday. I’m so sorry, Seth, I swear to God. I’m sorry, Seth, I really, like, if you take it, like, I was thinking about what we were doing, you know, like, I didn’t know which burgular--
SH: Well, like, I mean, that shit wouldn’t even-a happened if…
RM: I told her, I did. Amber, do you remember me telling you let’s not (indistinct).
AS: When?
SH: Yeah right, dude, you called and said “Hey, come hang out with me”…(indistinct).
RM: Oh yeah, yeah, but w--if we didn’t go to White Hen that would--that shit wouldn’t have been thrown out if we didn’t go to White Hen.
SH: (indistinct)
RM: I didn’t know she was drunk, they tell me she wasn’t drunk. She wasn’t that drunk when she picked me up and then she…(indistinct)
AS: Well I can hate the phone call.
SH: Well you would…(indistinct)
AS: No!
SH: (laughs) Yeah, Scott told me you did…(indistinct)
AS: No, I didn’t! You can look at the fuckin’ alcohol (indistinct).
SH: And then you copped at it. Dude, Scott told me he did, you sat there hoping to get with his sister and, fuckin’, you were over there, and Rose, Rose knew you were smokin’ then you were, like, “His sister’s hot” and then you were like smokin’ up and shitfaced and (indistinct, jumbled) Where are we going?
RM: Just go to Teaticket.
SH: I can’t. Take a left.
AS: Go where?
RM: You gotta go all the way to Mashpee?
SH: Yup.
AS: Yeah, ‘cause they’re fuckin’, gay, and they’re, like…(indistinct)
RM: Go to John’s, John’s has (indistinct)
AS: We already did…(indistinct)
AS: I’m sorry that you look like you’re 30, Rose.
RM: (laughs)
AS: (indistinct) Or, now that you have connections, going to (indistinct)
RW: (laughs)
AS: You never got carded at John’s, right?
RM: Nope. And now I know somebody who works there.
AS: (indistinct) I know. Wow!
RW: (coughs)
RM: Stop at…(indistinct) college… (indistinct) like, fuckin’, I respect you, I look up to you for that.
RW: Good.
RM: You have mad shit goin’ on in your life, like, honestly, if I was you, like, I’d be too scared to go.
RW: Yeah.
RM: But you still went. Half the people that don’t go to college just say “Oh, I don’t care, I’m too cool for college,” but you put everything else in your life aside and still went, and I have respect for that.
credits
from Bits and Pieces,
released August 19, 2012
Vocals by Reuben Walton, Rose Mase, Amber Scanlan and Seth Heart
Lyrics written by Reuben Walton, Rose Mase, Amber Scanlan and Seth Heart
Composed by Reuben Walton
Produced by Reuben Walton
Recorded by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Mixed by Reuben Walton
Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in
Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
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