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Us Mere Mortals

from Being Strangled (Single) by Golden Veins

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One night while screwing around with beats and keyboards, we came up with the foundation for “Us Mere Mortals”. I made the initial beat and put in the harp notes, Ryan added the keyboard trills and Scott basically wrote the other two sections of the song. I tried writing words and melody to the whole song, and we even thought about getting in someone to rap over a part, but ultimately we felt the song worked best with main vocals saved to the very end. Scott also added in the various spoken-word samples. Hopefully the cumulative effect of these elements makes up, at least in some part, for the lack of rapping.

-G.

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And through it all
Us mere mortals carry on
By the whims of the world

And through it all
Us mere mortals soldier on
By the whims of the world

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from Being Strangled (Single), released February 8, 2011
Written by GOODE/MEIER/O’GARA/
Produced by GOLDEN VEINS
Engineered & Mixed by SCOTT O’GARA
Recorded at SMOKING GUN STUDIOS, IOWA CITY, IA 2009/2010
Mastered by DOUG VAN SLOUN
Artwork by MICHELLE HOLLEY

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