#-006 COUNTING THE DAYS. once upon a time, in a different life, i was a hip hop artist. while i didn’t rap in this particular song, i did perform and record it under the same alias.
“counting the days” is my favorite song that i’ve written; in fact, i live in constant fear that i’ll never be able to write a better composition. it’s actually funny how this track came about — i had originally written it over a beat that was given to me, but ended up performing it using my acoustic guitar (my dearly departed tiffany) for months before i even started recording the katipunera EP. it hurt to perform it, too; i remember crying in some performances. when it came time to record the track, the producer suggested that we take it in a completely different direction, and so we did.
now that i think about it, this really is a sad song. the lyrics are heartbreaking (oh man, the story behind that is INTENSE). listening to it now, i also can hear the weird whale calls / seacow bellows in the background that i had the producer put into the song to signify that i missed my best friend (who was, and still is, in california; it’s an inside joke, don’t worry about it). and of course, the music video we made (which will never see the light of day, OMG) was dedicated to a friend who had died of cancer a few months before the EP’s release. no wonder i don’t listen to this song often.
i really should record a proper acoustic version of it, though.
