Ben Gott | "The Great Forever" (Mostly Live) (2019)

"The Great Forever" is a song about feeling helpless while dealing with someone who is suffering from mental illness. Everything-including the overdubs-was done in one take. There was no trickery involved (unless you count the -0.25% pitch adjustment I had to make in Audacity so that the clock speeds would match!) I played all the instruments and mixed and mastered the track, too.
320kbps MP3 available here: bit.ly/2sbXZsp
"The Great Forever"
Everybody knows it
And everybody says
Can’t stop feeling it
Can’t let it go to your head
The way you go showing it
Was it something I said?
I’d better be going
The clouds moving in overhead
Taking some time and we’re
Doing that thing
That thing that we do when we
Can’t think of anything
Half a step nearer and
Another away
Memories clearer
Memories of yesterday
Give me a sound and I’ll make it
Give me a beat and I’ll break it
Just give me a song
And I’ll fake it
It’s the longest day
The great forever
You think we don’t know it?
The way that it is?
The way that it feels when
Right turns out wrong and then
You pick yourself up
Again and again
Times may be tough
But right now is not the end
You know it
I know it
© 2019 Benjamin Gott. All Rights Reserved.

[@willhorton9478]

This Is So Good! Nice job Mr. Gott!

[@addietenser6577]

Love it!

[@MikeGervasi]

99% of my "finished" songs are one take. I hit record and just play. Then overdub whatever comes to mind. Reason being that when I used to demo songs they always had that magic i couldn't recreate again. So I cut out a step :)

[@BenGott]

Mike Gervasi I’m not going to make another file. I’m going to use this as my base. That whole outro came to me while I was sitting there making this video. There is something to be said for one take!

[@tonythetiger8565]

Hello