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The Plea

from The Juvenalias by William Remmers

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"Aliens come down blast away your face/Can't you see you're destroying the race"
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8TH GRADE

Skipping ahead, Joshaa's brother returns, mad at him for some reason that he was kidnapped and their dad was murdered by aliens. Brother Daryl says in the track before this one, "either you jump off that cliff/or I'll kill your friends." So this is Joshaa's response.

I figured out the riff and got so excited, I called Ryan's house and played it to him over the phone. I don't remember what gave me the idea to reverse the guitar part, but it's just as pleasant a riff forwards as backwards.

Anyway, the aliens finally come back and deus ex machina Daryl into oblivion. I'm obsessed with the improvised lyric-jumble: "See you knew whenyourevercan view/No one knows if you're gonna be you"

This song was a direct segue into a five-minute instrumental, "Joshaa Underture" (can you tell I was a Tommy fan?). Which is why this track ends with me tuning my guitar before the Overture theme kicks back in. Despite how much weird thought I put into all this junk, I had no standards for quality.

After that track was "The Finale," which was basically the same thing as Abbey Road's "The End," except with pick scrapes in the place of a drum solo and the rotating guitar solos (here over bVI -> bVII -> I... very original) played by Ryan, myself, and aforementioned friend Tom. You're not missing anything.

Here ends the tale of Joshaa.

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from The Juvenalias, released May 1, 2020

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William Remmers New York, New York

William Remmers has been doing music since he was a prattling babe.

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