This was for Jason's 2-hour challenge. I wasn't going to mess around, so I kept this to a kind of formulaic blues-garage rock kind of thing, lyrically and musically. I, um, "became aware" of the source of Jason's assigned titles, so I expounded on that concept the lyrics to the breakdown verse, which was a fun, clever-clever little exercise, though I'd probably rewrite that first if I ever decide to do anything with this tune.
lyrics
sold my soul to win your heart
went underground for you
no black thing on god's green world
I wouldn't do it to get through
nothing more you loved than watch me
twisting at the stake
thought you had my number, baby
heart's a rattlesnake
but i get around i get around i get around i get around
i get around i get around don't tell me you don't hear that sound
and maybe you don't love me, I won't let you go to ground
I get around I get around I get around
don't I think about it, baby, don't you wonder
well I'm thinking all the time
thinking how to make you burn make you simmer
make the sentence worth the crime
gonna make a noise gonna make you hear
so I hope you get the news
wanna make you know this heart of mine's
too black to get the blues
but i get around i get around i get around i get around
i get around i get around don't tell me you don't hear that sound
and maybe you don't love me, I won't let you go to ground
I get around I get around I get around
you know everybody loves somebody
so where did our love go
now they call me mr. lonely
you can ask the man, Ringo
and I'm feeling like a rag doll
in the house of the rising sun
and I'm leading my own pack
and you ain't my number one
cause i get around i get around i get around i get around
i get around i get around don't tell me you don't hear that sound
and maybe you don't love me, I won't let you go to ground
I get around I get around I get around
credits
from Round 4, Week 8,
released December 29, 2014
Special thanks to James Vincent for loaning me his Burchette guitar for this track.
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