Leave Me (inspired by the Columbine High School shootings)
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Just posted the song "Leave Me". It was written, guitared, and sung by Jan Antonie Baars, my old music writing partner back in 2009. I added piano and a low string sound to provide a sense of warmth and foreboding. I also wanted to add other parts such as a ticking clock, like on an old fashioned time bomb, but Jan didn't like the idea.
The logistics of our partnership was interesting because I was living in Thailand at the time, and Jan was living in the Netherlands. We became friends through MySpace. What we would do was e-mail each other with musical ideas and WAV files. We had to agree on a tempo so that when one of us would send the other a track it would already be perfectly in time with the project we were putting together. This is one such song. There will be others as I dredge them up.