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Dad’s Day

Perpetual Emotion Machine

from The Unforetold

2009

I wrote Dad’s Day to commemorate the 6th anniversary of my father’s death. I was feeling particularly down that day, but trying to fight it by thinking of good memories of him — this is why the music has both major and minor chords.

The lyrics were written at the same time, which is unusual for me (it is unusual for me to have lyrics at all, even though there are three songs with lyrics on the album). Apart from feelings of melancholy about missing him, I was also embroiled in some serious personal issues and things in the family were not that good. It occurred to me that I was glad that he wasn’t around to witness things breaking down like that and that was where the words came from.

That the beginning of the song matched so easily with the end of Bad Day was discovered by accident while previewing some work files and one accidentally started playing over the other, so I decided to mesh them together, eventually also with Hard Candy to make a complete suite of three opening tracks.

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Dad’s Day

Perpetual Emotion Machine

The isolated track, removed from The Unforetold suite.

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The Unforetold: Bad Day, Dad’s Day, Hard Candy

Perpetual Emotion Machine

The complete suite as the opener for the album.

Credits

written, produced and arranged by Perpetual Emotion Machine. ‘Hard Candy’ co-written by Sanaa Rush. additional vocals by Catherine Goodrick-Werner. ©2009 Woof Boom Productions.

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The Nine-Oh-Five: (Hard Candy (Stripped), Dad’s Day (Extended), Bad Day (Overloaded))

Perpetual Emotion Machine

The companion suite to The Unforetold, this version contains a remixed version of the song as the second part.

Credits

written, produced and arranged by Perpetual Emotion Machine. ‘Hard Candy’ co-written by Sanaa Rush. additional vocals by Catherine Goodrick-Werner. Remixed by The Immaculate Contraption. ©2009 Woof Boom Productions.