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What Will It Take? (ft Distant Social Club)

from 2020 by ZeCoop

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Check out the album by Distant Social Club here:
distantsocialclub.bandcamp.com

Completed by the amazing Helen Robertson with lyrics/vocals!!

guatecoop:
My brother, @zecoop, has been here for the weekend and it has been GREAT! So great. I love hanging with my brother in any way, but especially when we can write and record music.
He asked me to record a drum track (as in, make it up and record it on the fly....) on his cassette 8 track recorder. Well, I did with his help and then we wrote this song based on that structure and rhythm. I played my favorite guitar (and first)--my SG through a Traynor YBA1. So fun.
What a great finish to a great weekend! Enjoy.

ZeCoop:
Yep, a fantastic weekend full of long nights and loud noises (and ringing ears, maybe). So good to dedicate time with him and my parents. Rob and I write so differently that it sometimes seems at the start we won't come up with anything. Most of the time, though, it suddenly pops and we have something that was unexpected to both of us. This was true here for sure. , and although my idea of recording everything on the 8-track didn't happen (since I haven't used the 8-track since last FAWM and forgot some things), it still was great. We played bass and guitar live at the same time to finish the song. An awesome way to end the weekend although I am sure we'll collaborate more this February. I played my Fender Jazz bass.

In the town we grew up in, when I (ZeCoop) was in junior high, whenever someone wanted to have a fight, they'd say, "Behind the Armory, after school". Next to the Junior High was the venerable old armory building and there was a walking trail with lots of tree cover behind it, and that's where the fights would be. I was a shrimpy studious kid and never was a part of that (and Rob was in kindergarten at the time so get didn’t fight either,lol) but you often heard that from the fighting/bully kids...

lyrics

You always liked to play the
Knight in shining armour
Out to save the damsel in distress

But life is not a series of
Trials and monsters and fights to be won
Life is so much more complex

Someone
Stop me
Don't let me go
Help me
Climb back
Up again

Your fairytale would never
Come to anything
You're too caught up to see reality

Someone
Stop me
Don't let me go
Help me
Climb back
Up again

What will it take to see you?
What will it take to free you?
I'm on the edge
I'm looking down
I'm on the edge
I'm hanging on
With fingertips but I am not gonna fall

It won't take valour or brawn
To win this fight
Compassion takes so much more

Someone
Stop me
Don't let me go
Help me
Climb back
Up again

What will it take to see you?
What will it take to free you?
I'm on the edge
I'm looking down
I'm on the edge
I'm hanging on
With fingertips but I am not gonna fall

credits

from 2020, released June 19, 2020
Rob Cooperider: electric guitar, drums
ZeCoop: bass guitar
Helen: lyrics and vocals

Check out more from Helen here:
helenrobertson.bandcamp.com

Check out more from Rob here:
www.31pumpkins.com

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ZeCoop Kalamazoo, Michigan

I love playing music and keep learning new instruments. My songs are in a wide range of styles, from indie-rock to surf, to folk to rock to electronic... I never know. I record at home in a studio I put together in a spare room. I work (via the web) with a lot of vocal/lyric collaborators from all over the world.

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