Rebecca Pittenger's Podcast of Weird Songs

My ancestors came and brought me this song in a dream.

But sometimes the performances in rough demos are better'n performances in the polished versions of songs.

An old timey country ditty that explains what Timmy and Bobby are like.

This is the next song in the album about demon or spirit possession. Or some-other-kind-of-entity-possession. Like the previous song, it's about Timmy and Bobby coming over to my house and finding me acting peculiarly. But, in this case, it's sung from my point of view.

I'm writing a new album, which still includes Timmy and Bobby. It's an album about possession. (The previous song I posted is the first song of this here album).

This song is about being possessed by some kind of entity that's not very benevolent. It's another Timmy and Bobby song.

When I listened to last week's song I noticed some o' the rap vocals formed a melody. I made that there melody into a new song. I guess it's not an altogether new song, though. It's more of a reprise of last week's song. It's, in part, about how, when you're young, you don't anticipate having bad health problems in the future, or even dying, for that matter. Then you get older, and you get whomped.

I don't like the idear of publishing the same song twice; however, I ran into mad technical difficulties, and the only way I was able to get this thing up was to not have a picture or a description. I'm tryin' again, cuz I likes the picture that goes with this song.

This song, as opposed to last week's song which is about wanting to be alone, is about not wanting to be alone.

It deals with the question of getting songs from other worlds or dimensions - is it an act of theft when a song from another dimension comes to me in a dream and I bring it to light in this here dimension? Those worlds are probably like how this world used to be before humans wrecked it.

These songs I get from dreams, sometimes I don't know what they're about, even when I'm in the process of word-smithing the lyrics. After the fact, when I'd gotten it all recorded, I realized it was about how animals go off to be alone when they die.

It's got a kind of gospel-ish, old timey country music feel, combined with hip hop. Or maybe it's more like one of those old fashioned hymns like J.S. Bach used to write.

At any rate, this song suggests that it's easier for you to merge with the collective, including stuff in your immediate environment and nature and stuff, when you're alone. You can access Heaven more easily, too, under those circumstances; and that's why animals go off to be alone when they die.

I use an earthquake as a metaphor in this here song, cuz I have a thing about earthquakes. I float the hypothesis that an earthquake is more than just shaking. It's the scared people and swaying houses and stuff, too. Why'd I say that? It's cuz an earthquake that happens in the middle o' nowhere is an entirely different beast than one in a big city where there're lots of buildings and stuff. A 7 point something in the middle of the desert, where nobody lives would shake a couple cacti and then everybody would forget about it. If the same one happened in LA, it would be The Big One of (whatever year it is when it happens).