About That's Greed

The lyrics came first. There was a song my band, chump, had written, for which
I had written these words. Chump was dying, and I liked the words too much, so
I came up with some music for them. I'm writing this 'about' in 8/2008, and I
don't really remember the process of writing.
I can say though, that the song is pretty much in a structure of ABCABC.
There's no particular coda - everything happens, and then everything happens
again.

I do want to talk about how the song got arranged eventually. I had a lot of fun
with the color on this one.
The chorus- the vocals are doubled in falsetto, which gives it a cool eerie sound.
Also, the guitar is doubled but split between ears, to make it sound fuller.
I used the organ as a commentary - little melodies at the beginning of the verses, 
and then the high squeal which gets sustained during the second chorus.
During the little bridge sections after the chorus, the guitar pans across to neat
effect. That section was supposed to feel rather lost but still with a rhythmic
drive. Also during that section I used the gu-zheng my grandmother gave me which she
got in China (except she called it something that sounded like 'joong'). It's the
plucked-string sound but the notes bend up and down.
Also I did the 'ooh's as a spur-of-the-moment thing, but I really like how they
keep the song dark in a different kind of way.
The harmonica during the second verse is reverse-echo, which gives the verse sharpness.
I could go on about little things here and there, but those are the most notable.

As for the song as a whole, I'm really satisfied with the unity of message this song has.
It's about greed, but in a much more longing way. It's an abstract greed - I don't
remember writing the lyrics with any particular thing in mind, rather a litany of all
the times in my life when I ever wanted something, from a candy bar to love. But the
harmonies and melodies definitely frame the lyrics well.
The verses feel a bit chatty to me - a lot of words with the same little melody, but
that might kind of support the feeling of wanting, and wanting, and wanting, and wanting.
The original chump version was much more chromatic, yet rockin', and the lyrics
then were a bit more greedy greed. But I fiddled with them a little and redid the song
entirely myself.

What do YOU desire?