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Life From Generation XS

by Brett Schieber

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Chasing Satellites 04:16
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CHASING SATELLITES Verse: Am C Em (4x) Chorus: D C (4x) Bridge: G F (3x) E F (2x) (verse) Am C Em (4x) I'm on the outside, but I'm looking in, the crowds below, my friends, so breathe in the air (chorus) D C (4x) Chasing the satellites orbiting around, watch them drift out of sight and disappear without a sound (verse) Am C Em (4x) I'm going nowhere, so I'm looking within, so gather around my friends and breathe in the air (chorus) D C (4x) Chasing the satellites orbiting around, watch them drift out of sight and disappear without a sound (bridge) G F (3x) E F (2x) (chorus) D C (4x) Chasing the satellites orbiting around, watch them drift out of sight and disappear without a sound
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Waste of Today 05:33
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WASTE OF TODAY Verse: F - minus the high F on the E string C - in the shape of a G chord 6543211 x320001 Chorus: C Am D7 Bridge: C D (verse) F C So here I am at night with so much to dream of the lights going down and so do my thoughts with it black room and empty walls and not much to speak of lonely and high and nobody knows my name What a waste of today but this is what I have made what a waste of today (chorus) C Am D7 Wasting my thoughts over you Wasting my time with all that I do (verse) F C Tomorrow at school, I'll hide in the corner and sink So I'm invisible and no one will know what I think I open my books and draw with permanent ink so someone next year will know I was here today But what a waste of today This is what I have made What a waste of today (chorus) C Am D7 Wasting my thoughts over you Wasting my time with all that I do (bridge) F C (2x) C D (4x) F C (2x) (verse) F C At night I walk the streets aimless and hollow kicking rocks into the sewer water below I listen to them splash and echo around me they reverberate in and around my bones, around my bones But what a waste of today………
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Down & Out 04:00
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DOWN AND OUT Guitar – G# (capo 4) Verse: G# B (4x) *Guitar chord forms – Em G Chorus: E C# G# E C# G# C# (2x) *Guitar chord forms – C Am Em (2x) Am(-C) Bridge: E C# (8x) *Guitar chord forms – C Am (verse) G# B (4x) Street cars passing me I'm in a strange reality The passengers I see, I know, seem peculiar to me, so I walk alone (chorus) E C# G# But when I'm down and out below E C# G# C# where do I run to, where do I go? You know E C# G# But when I'm down and out below E C# G# C# where do I run to, where do I go? You know (verse) G# B (4x) Lightning echos my fall rings reality in my ears, and finally I know I don't long to belong, so I walk alone (chorus) E C# G# But when I'm down and out below E C# G# C# where do I run to, where do I go? You know E C# G# But when I'm down and out below E C# G# C# where do I run to, where do I go? You know (bridge) E C# (8x) When I'm running I can always find the ground under me everytime (chorus) E C# G# But when I'm down and out below E C# G# C# where do I run to, where do I go? You know E C# G# But when I'm down and out below E C# G# C# where do I run to, where do I go? You know (bridge) E C# (8x)
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Lightning Strikes 05:46
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LIGHTNING STRIKES Guitar – capo 4 (G#) Verse: C# E (3x) F# E *Guitar chord forms – C(- low C) C (- high C) then hammeron G-A-Open 1st string (repeat progression 3x) C chord form with D as bass note C (- high C) then hammeron 1st string open-F-open Pre-Chorus: C# G#m (3x) E G# *Guitar chord forms – Am Em (3x) C Em Chorus: B A G# (4x) E G# *Guitar chord forms – G G Em (4x) C Em Bridge: G# A# B C# D# C# G# (2x) E G# B G# (2x) *Guitar chord forms – all power chords off of 5th string – G# A# B C# D# C# G# (2x) then open chords Am Em (2x) and C Em G Em (2x) (verse) C#-E (3x) F# Sometimes I walk these lonely streets at E night C#-E (3x) F# E sometimes I talk, but when I do I lie C#-E (3x) F# E tonight (pre-chorus) C# G#m (3x) E G# (chorus) B A G# When daylight fades to night B A G# and when darkness covers over us B A G# when lightning tumbles down B A G# E G# I'm a slave into this sound (verse) C#-E (3x) F# E Meanwhile, everyone spends the night asleep, C#-E (3x) F# E we come alive and feel everything C#-E (3x) F# E tonight (pre-chorus) C# G#m (3x) E G# (chorus) B A G# When daylight fades to night B A G# and when darkness covers over us B A G# when lightning tumbles down B A G# E G# I'm a slave into this sound (bridge) G# A# B C# D# C# G# (2x) E G# B G# (2x) (chorus – 2x) B A G# When daylight fades to night B A G# and when darkness covers over us B A G# when lightning tumbles down B A G# E G# I'm a slave into this sound B A G# When daylight fades to night B A G# and when darkness covers over us B A G# when lightning tumbles down B A G# E G# I'm a slave into this sound (bridge) G# A# B C# D# C# G# (2x) E G# B G# (2x) (verse) C# E (3x) F# E C# E (3x) F# D#
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Plan B 04:52
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PLAN B Guitar – capo 5 (A) Verse: G D A (4x) *Guitar chord forms – D Am Em (4x) Pre-Chorus: C A# (2x) *Guitar chord forms – G F (2x) Chorus: F C A# (4x) C A# (2x) *Guitar chord forms – C G F (4x) G F (2x) Bridge: F G A (3x) G# G F *Guitar chord forms - same (verse) G D A (4x) I want to give, I want to take everything C A# (2x) my heart can't break (chorus) F C A# (4x) No, I don't think plan B is a solution I don't think at all I don't want to breathe in this pollution C A# (2x) I don't breathe at all (verse) G D A (4x) I want to live, I want to die, I want some C A# (2x) answers, but I never know why (chorus) F C A# (4x) No, I don't think plan B is a solution I don't think at all I don't want to breathe in this pollution C A# (2x) I don't breathe at all (bridge) F G A (3x) G# G F (chorus) F C A# (4x) No, I don't think plan B is a solution I don't think at all I don't want to breathe in this pollution C A# (2x) I don't breathe at all
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Tug of War 03:18
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TUG OF WAR Verse: Am Em (7x) C D (2x) Am Em (4x) Chorus: Am C Em (2x) Am Em Am Em Am C D Em Am(2x) (verse) I'm naked and oblivious to all I once knew and everything I believe, but that's me and you in this crazy tug of war (chorus) If I had a car then I would drive to the California line and wash my hands of all I believe, but that's me and you, in this crazy tug of war (verse) And now I see you as I never have before, what a bore, maybe you never really cared for me, maybe you never really loved me like I loved you, in this crazy tug of war (chorus) If I had a car then I would drive to the California line and wash my hands of all I believe, but that's me and you, in this crazy tug of war (bridge – same as verse) (chorus)
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100x16 03:53
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100x16 Guitar – capo 4 (G#) Verse: E D# A# B C# (4x) *Guitar chord forms – ALL power chords C B F# G Pre-chorus: F# E (4x) *Guitar chord forms – D E Chorus: A E (4x) F# E (4x) D E *Guitar chord forms – F C (4x) A# C Bridge: D E (4x) *Guitar chord forms – A# C End: D# C# B *Guitar chord forms – B A G (verse) E D# A# B C# (4x) I wonder why I can't go to sleep at night? I fight with the night until morning light, and I'm tired, so tired, of this dark night, I toss and I turn. Why can't I sleep at night? (pre-chorus) F# E (4x) I'm going crazy, count to one hundred sixteen times, stare at the ceiling, wondering how these days pass by (chorus) A E A E At night I wonder where the universe goes, A E guided by the moonlight and A E reflected off the cold F# E (2x) D E I don't know (verse) E D# A# B C# (4x) I wonder why I can't go to sleep at night? I fight with the night until morning light, and I'm tired, so tired, of this dark night, I toss and I turn. Why can't I sleep at night? (pre-chorus) F# E (4x) I'm going crazy, count to one hundred sixteen times, stare at the ceiling, wondering how these days pass by (chorus) A E A E At night I wonder where the universe goes, A E guided by the moonlight and A E reflected off the cold F# E (4x) D E I don't know (bridge) D E (4x) (chorus) A E A E At night I wonder where the universe goes, A E guided by the moonlight and A E reflected off the cold F# E (4x) D E I don't know (bridge) D E (4x) (end) D# C# B
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Blissfully Unaware (free) 04:13
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BLISSFULLY UNAWARE Guitar - Capo 2 (F#) Verse/Chorus: A B D G B *Guitar chord forms – G Am(+G) C(- high C + D + G) F Am Bridge: F# G (2x) B *Guitar chord forms – E F (2x) A7 (verse) A B I won't pick up the paper tonight D G don't want to be reminded of the nine to B five A B because there's only one thing on my mind D B tonight and that is you (bridge) F# G the dark outside can't hide my tears from F# all these years G B let them be forgotten for now (verse) A B Won't watch the news tonight D G don't want to be reminded of the life B outside A B cause there's only one thing on my mind D G B tonight and that is you (chorus) A B D G B I'm blissfully unaware, I'm…… A B D G B Blissfully unaware, I’m…… (bridge) F# G The rain outside can't disguise my tears F# from all these years G B let them be forgotten for now (chorus) A B D G B I'm blissfully unaware, I'm……
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Strike Night 04:10
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STRIKE NIGHT Guitar – capo 2 (F#) Verse: B-D E-F# (8x) *Guitar chord forms – hammer-on 5th open-3rd fret then 4th open-2nd fret Pre-Chorus: G B G B F# *Guitar chord forms – F(- high F) Am Em Chorus: B D (2x) *Guitar chord forms – Am Am(-C) Am Am(-C –A) Am C(-high C) Bridge: F# B (2x) *Guitar chord forms – E7 A7 (verse) B-D E-F# (8x) I looked into the mirror and practiced all my lines, I got the call back and took the stage (pre-chorus) G B G B and that's where I met you, so lost and so F# confused (chorus) B It's just another strike night, just another set to break down, just another heart to D break as the curtain comes down (verse) B-D E-F# (8x) While pretending to be someone else, we hit our marks, rehearsed our scenes (pre-chorus) G B G B and that's where I met you, so lost and so F# confused (chorus) B It's just another strike night, just another set to break down, just another heart to D break when the curtain comes down (bridge) F# B We've said the same lines one thousand times F# B but now the time has come for our show to end
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Alive (free) 05:07
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ALIVE Verse: power chords - D C# (still holding the E on the A string) G A (4x) 1st Chorus: D7 C (2x) Am(-B) E7 2nd + 3rd Chorus: D7 C (4x) Am(-B) Bridge: Am Am(-B) (4x) Am Am(+D) Am(+F) Am(+G) A (verse) D C# G A (4x) When the morning falls into the sky when the lightning sinks into your eyes when the blood flows stirring life inside when the air breathes I'm finding I'm alive (chorus) D7 C Then the morning falls into the sky D7 C when the rain falls it reminds you you're Am(-B) E7 alive, and I'm alive (verse) D C# G A (4x) Knowing that night will run her hands on me, my bones are shaking the soul inside of me, clouds on horizon whisper in my ear, when your heartbeat is all I want to hear (chorus) D7 C Then the morning falls into the sky D7 C when the rain falls it reminds you you're alive D7 C Then the morning falls into the sky D7 C when the rain falls it reminds you you're Am(-B) E7 alive, and I'm alive (bridge) Am Am(-B) (4x) Am Am(+D) Am(+F) Am(+G) A (verse) D C# G A I need your love to remind me I'm alive (chorus) D7 C Then Sunday morning falls into the sky D7 C when the rain falls reminds you you're alive D7 C then the day comes watching hours slide when D7 C the rain falls reminds you you're alive D7 C one more day comes watching hours slide D7 C Am(-B) then it’s over with a blinking eye (bridge) Am Am(-B) (4x) Am Am(+D) Am(+F) Am(+G) A (verse) D C# G A I need your love to remind me I'm alive

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Click on each song title to read the lyrics and guitar tab for each song.

The title, "Life From Generation XS", comes from the idea that we live in a time when technology seemingly allows people to have access to everything at once. We're inundated with the latest news, pop culture, and technology, and it's easier to communicate with each other from all over the world at all times, with ease. This constant and easy access can create a culture of instant gratification that actually makes people more distant and jaded, rather than in touch, intelligent, and together. Because so many things are always at our finger tips, we appreciate less. Instead of unifying us, it can make our differences and divisions even greater, if we don't make conscious choices of appreciation, betterment, and positivity. My idea for the title of this cd, came from these thoughts. Also, the classic Depeche Mode cd, "Black Celebration" (which I love), has a note at the back of the cd that says "Life from the so-called space age", and that began the turn of the phrase, "Life from...", in my mind.

"Down & Out": This song had several revisions before settling on this version. Basically, it is about trying to run from problems - metaphorically and literally. I had just recently begun to run at a great nature trail next to where I lived and really enjoyed it - just being outside, running along the water, across bridges, etc, and as I ran, the ideas for this song were born.

"Lightning Strikes": It's difficult to describe what this song is about. At the time, I began taking long walks at night. While it seemed the world was sleeping, I was enjoying the tranquility of those moments. The lyrics are trying to express those thoughts and it is musically one of my most proudest pieces.

"Chasing Satellites": This is a song about chasing after dreams/ideas/people/things that are seemingly always just out of reach.

"Waste of Today": This song really came to life for me when Darrell Leven played guitar on it with me. Then, in the studio, Mandi Watson Crosby and Tiffany Watson added the perfect accompaniment. I was always proud of the lyrics to the song, but didn't really love the song until they played their parts to it. The song is sort of about my school years, feeling as if I didn't fit in with anyone and walked by invisible to everyone. These lines sum up my school days very well - "Tomorrow at school, I'll hide in the corner and sink so I'm invisible and no one will know what I think, I open my book and draw with permanent ink so someone next year will know I was here today".

"Plan B": I had a friend who was in college and always talking about his "plan B" and "plan C", taking into account if "plan A" did not work out. So...I wrote this song called "Plan B". I wrote the music on my friend's (Darrell Leven) instrument called a papoose.

"Tug of War": I wrote this song and "Chasing Satellites" in the same day. This song is about the give and take, the back and forth, and the doubts in a relationship. Darrell Leven plays a mean solo in this song too!

"100x16": I have always hated math. I never understood it once I passed the point of simple addition and subtraction in elementary school, so it's funny that I wrote a song with a multiplication problem as the title. Actually, the song has nothing to do with math though. It's all about not being able to sleep at night because of a second burst of energy and my mind wandering...."at night, I wonder where the universe goes"...etc. Musically, it took several directions before it became a "4 on the floor" beat. Originally, my idea was for it to be more like an old Smashing Pumpkins song, believe it or not, but it somehow never worked. Instead, it turned into an almost acoustic-country version of Duran Duran.

"Blissfully Unaware": I wrote this song in the haze of seeing terrorist attacks and war on tv and, quite honestly, being afraid of what was going on "outside" my doors. That idea, while being single at the time and not having anyone else around, made me especially long for a relationship, a love, that would assuage those fears and make me forget about all the hate and violence outside. The original acoustic version appears on "Television and Trash", but I had always wanted to put strings on it, so when I had the opportunity to do so when recording this cd, I rerecorded this song.

"Strike Night": A live version of this song appears on "Television and Trash". After I began playing this song with Darrell Leven and Marc Kipfer, I knew I had to record a studio version of this song, as well. This is a song about my time as the musical director of a theatre production called "Summer Lovin'". The footsteps you'll hear at the end are me walking on a wooden floorboard at a studio that Gavin shared at the time with one of the members of Marilyn Manson's band.

"Alive": This is my attempt at a lyric like George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" (my cover of that song is on my single "Beware"). Even in the darkest hours, storms come, but they always pass. This song began as a piano ballad, but I completely changed the chords and rewrote the music to what it sounds like in this recording.

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released September 1, 2006

Written by Brett Schieber
Produced by Brett Schieber with Gavin Fisher.

Brett Schieber - vocals, guitars, bass, keys, programming
Gavin Fisher - guitar, bass, programming/editing
Darrell Leven - guitar
Marc Kipfer - drums
Mary Beth Hussey - cello
Mandi Watson - violin
Tiffany Watson - viola

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On this Bandcamp page, you can purchase music from Brett Schieber, including his solo music, Arcanum (Brett & Tree), & Prankster. You'll find a couple albums he produced for others, as well. Brett's music for Mark D. Pencil & Friends can also be found on Bandcamp by searching for that name. Thank you for your time, ears, & hearts! ... more

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