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Trilobite

By Cosmic Cairns on August 17, 2022 8:53 pm

Just a song about a trilobite living its best life.  I felt like leaning into some electric guitar this week so there's a whole bunch of it here.

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I'm gonna swim all through the glorious night
Ain't gonna stop because I'm a trilobite
And I feel fine hanging out here in the ocean depths

I'm gonna swim and you know I'm gonna sing
Cuz I exist and that's an incredible thing
And now I'm gonna go anywhere at all I feel the pull

I'll burrow myself in the sand and I'll have crazy dreams
Of a waterless place called the land where nothing's as it seems
I can't breathe

I'm hanging out (and I feel all right) here in the Cambrian Age
And there's no doubt (I'm a trilobite) swimming is all of the rage
And I do whatever I want and nothing is gonna bring me down

The ocean's warm and filled with a luminous light
And it's a blast living as a trilobite
Everything is all right catching a ride in the undertow

Yeah why would I ever want to be anything else at all
When this is surely the peak of all that ever will be
Can't be beat

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How do you come up with those ideas? A song about how Trilobites felt in the Cambrian age? And yet, unbeknownst to the universe, this is exactly what it needed.
The drums have a lot of energy, love it. The bridge is so very nice! What a beautiful pop song, with good harmonies and lots of positive energy. That was really nice! Maybe one of my favorites this year.

You make the trilobite such an inspiration to all of us.

Fantastic story, awesome song. One day you will have to teach me those guitarsolos. very well done.

Kedbreak136 wrote:

How do you come up with those ideas? A song about how Trilobites felt in the Cambrian age? And yet, unbeknownst to the universe, this is exactly what it needed.
The drums have a lot of energy, love it. The bridge is so very nice! What a beautiful pop song, with good harmonies and lots of positive energy. That was really nice! Maybe one of my favorites this year.

I try to grab ideas wherever I can find them.  A couple months ago I was reading a book about the history of life on Earth.  When I got to the section about trilobites I remember thinking they looked cool and the word "trilobite" is kind of fun to say, so I filed it away as a possible subject for a song.  I keep a little notebook of random ideas I have and sometimes when I need a song title or an idea for something to write about I'll look back through it.  It comes in handy for WB where you've gotta come up with a lot of different ideas.



hent03 wrote:

You make the trilobite such an inspiration to all of us.

I think there's a lot we could learn from it!



Q-Rosh wrote:

Fantastic story, awesome song. One day you will have to teach me those guitarsolos. very well done.

Thanks!  A few of the guitar parts I planned out, but one of them at the end I just completely improvised in one take.  I'm not sure I could replicate it myself!  smile

A real blast from the past
- Ebrit

You've given such genius voice to the trilobyte!

(^they have two penises? i never knew..)
Mad TriloPenile Love To You heart

Weeee, this is an awesome dance party, harmonies, joyous. And this story, wow. I relate to the trilobite, who know they had it right, they get it.
This is my mantra for now:
"I'm gonna swim and you know I'm gonna sing
Cuz I exist and that's an incredible thing"

IN the future, space explorers will encounter trilobites somehow, and they will dance.

Whoa, this rocks so hard -- the 2:30 guitar solos whaaaat. ("I'll burrow myself" is my favorite part of the song...) heart

emily wrote:

Nice little surprise trilobite appearance at the end there. 



ilzxc wrote:

Whoa, this rocks so hard -- the 2:30 guitar solos whaaaat. ("I'll burrow myself" is my favorite part of the song...) <3

Thanks!  Just felt like rocking a little this week.

Devieus wrote:

A real blast from the past
- Ebrit

A very apt description.



RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

You've given such genius voice to the trilobyte!

(^they have two penises? i never knew..)
Mad TriloPenile Love To You <3

Thanks for the interesting factoid.  You learn something new every day.



miraclemiles wrote:

Weeee, this is an awesome dance party, harmonies, joyous. And this story, wow. I relate to the trilobite, who know they had it right, they get it.
This is my mantra for now:
"I'm gonna swim and you know I'm gonna sing
Cuz I exist and that's an incredible thing"

IN the future, space explorers will encounter trilobites somehow, and they will dance.

Space trilobites must surely be a thing, right?

Love the uplifting energy throughout.  From the lyrics to the drums and suhweet guitar solo it leaves ya with a smile on your face smile

Tone Matrix wrote:

Love the uplifting energy throughout.  From the lyrics to the drums and suhweet guitar solo it leaves ya with a smile on your face smile

Thanks!  I was hoping to generate some happy/positive feelings with this one.

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