Alkaline Trio - Hating Every Minute Lyrics






Sit down, please make yourself comfortable...
I might need some time
to dance around what I need to say,
I love you to death, I think I need a break.

I spend my days worried out loud,
I gag in my head, I choke it back down.
It hurts me inside to save your insides,
so close my lips tight, move eyes to the side.

This is the way we disappear.
It's easy if you burnout like a star.
This is the way we disappear.
It's easy like a fifty foot fall.

And I'm waiting, for whatever better time...
to evict these words that have rented out my mind.
And I'm hating every minute that I don't speak out loud,
like a year laying down
like a year laying down
like a year laying down

Relax on this bed of nails, on this plastic sheet,
your blood leaves a trail right back to me.
A problem you see.
Would you please allow a moment to think?





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  1. M.... T....

    Dan Andriano, the Huey Lewis of the modern mainstream punk scene. I love 'em. The lisp, the vibrato, the signature Dan.

    M.... T....

    Exhibit A: https://youtu.be/WHw0vPNSxM4
    Maybe it's just me.

  2. d.... ....

    Is this Dan harmonizing with himself? Sure as hell sounds that way, like @ just past 1:10 and 2:20 you have two spots where the high line comes in without harmonizing and that... does not sound like Skiba to me. The bigger thing is, I've never heard anyone sound so much like Bad Religion or, if you like, so much like Bad Religion sounding like the Moody Blues/CSN/whatever. They're definitely using the BR harmony panning trick at least - instead of like Dan 80% left / Matt 80% right or whatever the exact value is (the "live harmony" harmony) Dan's line is hard center and the high harmony is there twice, hard left AND hard right. You get the overall Wall of Sound thing like you just squashed it all hard center but there's still a sense of multiple voices singing the line instead of this, like, beam of harmony-sound that's just this one thing, this third sound just existing on its own somehow. BR confused the hell out of me with that for the longest time, like if this isn't all centered how the hell am I hearing the *exact* same thing when I pan the playback or take off one side of my headphones? Because you are hearing the same thing: half of the main line plus all of one ear's harmony line. (sometimes more, sometimes the main line is there twice ie weak left and weak right. Rarer though) Then you switch to the side and hear... half of the main line plus all of the exact same harmony line in the other ear, and you go nuts trying to figure out how the hell parts of it are clearly off to the side. Tricky bastards.

    Anyway, they're already that far into the bag of tricks. It only makes sense to have Dan harmonize himself. I could be wrong, there are a couple high notes where I'm a lot more confident Skiba can get to than Dan, but I'd bet on Dan having more range than he usually shows before I'd bet on Matt sounding velvety lol. Generally you only hear that when the main voice harmonize itself, and rarely at that Lead singer + lead singer harmonies aren't rare at all, just think of like any Misfits harmony ever. Forbidden Zone ("all the evidence destroyed" part), whatever. Any Misfits harmony is Danzig + Danzig or Graves + Graves, because the vocal talent of every other guy in the history of the bands adds up to Jerry Only shouting some crap backing vocals and nothing. Any Metallica vocal harmony (rare-ish) is Hetfield and Hetfield ("labeled mentally deranged" in Sanitarium, ie). Freddie Mercury's all over the place on Queen songs, like a whole chorus of Freddies on Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie on Melody and Harmony on Bring Back That Leroy Brown, while Freddie, Freddie, and I want to say Freddie..? But maybe just 4 total... anyway, he's doing backing vocals as he harmonizes himself, and occasionally one of him will get bored with the whole panning situation and start flying around inside your head, right to left or whatever. Michael Jackson did it a lot. It's endless. It's in Death Metal FFS, Nergal (low growl) + Nergal (high scream) on some songs, 2 atonal sounds can't really be called a harmony but it is a guy layered on himself for sure.

    But.

    As far as spreading the vocals around, panning, and probably some pretty brutal EQ and compression I really can't think of many bands that do this *and* make it sound the way BR does. I got uhh, BR. Fleetwood Mac. And this song, kinda. Dan's not as distinct against Dan (look it's Dan on himself ok? shut up, I'm making the call. It's not Skiba. Too much phlegm. Bank it) as Graffin was against himself, but he's off to the side some so that makes sense. Less seperation??.. yes! It does result in less separation!

    I'm still searching for the full-onBR secret re: creating a wall of sound made of individually distinguishable voices. This is the closest I can think of since the famous punk law firm Graffin, Graffin, Graffin, Graffin, and Bentley but there's still a ways to go. Not that having a harmony sound that's only *mostly* as cool as Bad Religion is an insult or anything but Dan and Dan don't quite pull it off. Should have left high Dan as he is and put regular Dan fully center. Then smack him with high and lowpass on all the lines I think? That's where it really becomes a mystery. BR have to be doing some pretty severe tone-shaping for Graffin to be so distinct against himself, the two of whom are sometimes joined by special guest Greg Graffin with, I thiiiiink, additional harmony vocals by Greg Graffin. I think. They've definitely done 1/3/6 and I'm certain they haven't done 1/3/5/6/8, I've messed with that with guitar overdubs while trying to build the most monstrous In Flames harmony tso I can smash Sweden into little self-governing, autonomous pieces, surely one of which will let me move there dammit... I just want the government to wipe my ass bro... but I failed. Not fair. A perfect 5th in with that many minor intervals is just... it didn't sound bad but it definitely wasn't ANGELIC AND PERFECT either, I shoulda tried 1/3/6/8 and then an octave above 3 (a 10th! yeah really. jazz is batshit, dude)a nd so I am cursed to wipe my own ass for eternity - someone fuckin kill me man, this is worse than death already. At least when you're an undead monster you don't have stuff falling outta you that makes it so you ahve to either walk around like a disgusting filthpig or touch your own butthole. eating is some real sophie's choice shit. If there's a God he created us and made us eat food so we don't die. How much more rigged can the game get? Biblical curse: touch your own butthole right after crapping or die. Fucking rude, man.

    *blinking* .... ... Sorry, remind me where I am right now? Ah youtube, Earth, 2018. Harmonies. Yeah sorry I pooped out too many brain cells I guess, or maybe people were right when they told me to stop huffing when I was a kid. In fact they were. Kids: don't huff. Everybody else: don't huff. Animals: stop huffing. Plants: I see you with that spraypaint. Knock it off. There's like a dozen ways to die from huffing whether it's hypoxia, choking on your shit-filled lungs as you sit there watching yourself going "but I'm breathing" - no you're pumping your lungs, you are not breathing because that involves oxygen and oxygen can't pierce the cloud of shit you've inhaled to get a bad high. Bummer dude. There's hypoxia. I know I already said that but it's scary so I'm saying it again. It's really heard on your heart too, Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome - no I didn't make this up - is when your hearts beats real fast and irregular from doing inhalants, then slows down some, then more, then gets real regular in the sense that it has stopped entirely. Cardiac arrest from sniffing paint, wooo fun shit. I mean at best you've got fucking paint on your teeth and everyone knows you get high out of a spray can, that's not very sexy. At worst you're dead like 4 different ways. And again, bad high. Whole sense of dread thing going on, which makes sense because YOU'RE MAKING IT SO YOU CAN'T BREATHE OR MOVE OXYGEN TO YOUR BRAIN so you can get high. Like imagine if weed, instead of being cool, was not cool and also gave you brain damage and sometimes made people's hearts stop. Don't be like me, instead *tell* people you've done it and so you know they shouldn't. People love that speaking from experience shit, thye can't get enough. Trust me I would know.. I've been there... (see how much your brain liked it when I did that? "Ahh this guy knows things, I will trust him...holy shit he's been there too?! I'm DEFINITELY hearing something true!") lol stupid brain. But yeah, I did it. It sucked. It's awful. Nobody should. so that's my advice, in big harmonies pick between the 5th and the 6th, they're too close together to include both. Don't do 7, like, at all...yes it's a 3rd up from 5. It's a trick. Only do 7 to fuck with your audience:

    Ok last I have for you is if you ever wanna make the audience's brains puke do a sweet harmony idea with 3 or 4 voices (a guitar is a voice dummy, we're talking like classical musicians rn), like some catchy Cliff Burton or In Flames or Bad Religion shit with 1/3/6/8, 1/3/6/10 (yeahhh there's that 10th again) or 1/3/6/13 (6th an octave up but you knew that. Subtract 7 from anything above 8 btw. 9 = 2, 10 = 3...). Repeat it enough that you build expectation it will return. If you just harmonize a bendy slide/hammer pulloff doodad once, people get it was a flourish. Play it 2, 4, or 8 times to dig into their head. You can make it a vocal thing if you're doing BR, but good luck bringing yourself to sing this garbage with any conviction. Signal a return, get them like "oh shit a motif played 4 times. We'll be hearing that again..." Yeah we'll be hearing it get hit by a bus, bitch!

    When they're fully doe-eyed and expecting the angels again, crap in their earholes instead PLEASE HEED THIS IS A METAPHOR by harmonizing thusly: 1/2/7/9 in minor. One fret (minor 2nd) is the actual most dissonant interval distance apart for 2 notes played simultaneously to be. Tritones are old news, this is like the new Diabolus In Musica except people are just straight-up afraid of the sound itself. Put it in TuxGuitar if you need a way to hear it, this stuff sounds BAD and you can't even find a 1/2 harmony on Youtube as a result. Don't bug me, I'm not going to hell over making an actual recording of the Audience Slayer harmony sorry. If ur like an actual sadist or psychopath, do real physical harm to your audience by extending it to 1/2/7/9/14/16. It's a harmony line, treat it like one. Get all In Flames or Metallica on it. Oh if you don't have 4-6 guitarists (wtf, explain yourself..?) get a harmonizer or five. Write it off with the IRS by telling them you're a professional dom or whatever. If they refuse, do not send them a recording of this shit to punish them. That is interstate mail crime and who knows what else. I'm being informed I am running out of space so the only thing I have to say is FIND PEOPLE YOU DON'T LIKE AND PLAY THE ONE WITH THREE MINOR SECON

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    Derek harmonizes on the chorus too. All 3 of them do actually.

  3. T.... ....

    The reason I like this song is it's like they fucked around and decided to do a Millencolin song way better than Millencolin could ever do it. I love Millencolin by the way, but few bands are in the realm of the Trio for me.

  4. E.... ....

    You need to edit the tags on this thing methinks.