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Where Shall I Go?

from The Juvenalias by William Remmers

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"Oh yeah, nothing can stop the end of the road"
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8TH GRADE

THE JOSHAA LP continued with the grown-up protagonist not knowing where to go. I think I wrote the lyrics for this one in advance. I say "think" because surely lyrics this stupid couldn't have been written in advance. I think this would be Joshaa's "I want" song but it's really more his "I, what?" song. "The End of the Road" was the climactic instrumental of the album so the line "Oh yeah nothing can stop the end of the road" was supposed to be prescient, plot-wise, or something.

Outsider music is on full display here: random bars of 3/8 in a 4/4 structure, all of the chords in the chorus seem to be minor chords, despite them clearly outlining a G major scale. I mean, even a year later, I wouldn't be caught dead writing i-ii-iii-iv into a song (especially while clearly singing G major over the lot), and neither would most sane people. There's something hideously fascinating about the careless obliviousness that leads to this kind of song where every verse/chorus has stark differences that come from clumsiness and not fussiness. But, then again, with the non-production fade-out, I was definitely in on some part of the joke, just a tiny part.

Anyway, I've always been fond of this song, so much so that I tried an experiment and re-recorded it today. You can find that version at the end of this disc.

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from The Juvenalias, released May 1, 2020

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

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