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Key 59<\/div>\n\n\n\n

K<\/a>e<\/a>y<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

From Candor<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2006<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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I worked on this originally in 2006, although the actual idea to make the song is much older than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100<\/strong>, originally titled “100 Years”, was a very specific project I started, always intended to have lyrics. It was inspired by a poem written by a close friend of and the premise of that poem was that nothing mattered because we would all be dead in a hundred years. A dark concept to be sure, but I thought the poem could be retooled into an industrial or darkwave song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came up with the chord progression for what became the verse, but it was very difficult to construct the verse section to match it. Over the years I tried in vain to come up with something I was happy with. Much of the composition process came after I was approached by a member of a local theatre community who was keen to write and produce a musical based on The Terminator<\/em>. They had heard my music and wanted to know if I could try my hand at writing some songs. I worked on this along with a revival of my other dark track, Bloodwork<\/a> (which became Every Second Counts<\/strong>). My involvement with that musical ultimately didn’t amount to anything so both these tracks were not completed at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 Years<\/strong> was one of those songs that I began, reloaded, played around with and then closed countless times over the years, and I simply chalked it up to being ‘not the right time’ to be inspired to complete it. However, in the spring of 2023, suddenly I was able to get deep into it and begin a new base track from scratch. The real hurdle for me was still the chord progression for the verses; I had nothing but failed attempts to get something that sounded right and resolved to the chorus and this was the main reason I had previously kept shelving it. But in June, I was able to get it to a point where I had something that worked. Then the lyrics, inexplicably, were completed in less than two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in its current form, 100<\/strong> is a song very much still in the vein of the original poem, but it is more of a lesson in living your life to the fullest. Also the idea that seemingly contrasting statements can exist, such as “Everything matters, so nothing matters \/ Nothing matters, so everything matters” (a concept that later reappears on Everything And Nothing<\/a>). Lastly, it is about not caring whether people judge you based on your life decisions, because in 100 years, is it really going to matter to anyone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lock 5700<\/div>\n\n\n\n
100 Years (unfinished Demo)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perpetual Emotion Machine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A chip tune from 2006 which bears little resemblance to anything produced later. Was never really able to work out a suitable verse chord progression, so this was shelved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n