Any Questions? - Follow

We start off Floating Fish Studios Ttam Troll Plays Bass Week with one of my favorite early Any Questions? songs. This unrelenting aggressive track is full of angst about the human condition, a cynical view of society, and the youthful frustrations of trying to change it all. This song was written and recorded at Der Palast des Goldes in March 1990 and features two blistering bass solos.

After I wrote and sequenced the music for this track, MC2P4 joined me in the studio and we recorded several live takes with him adding keyboard accents and backing vocals as I screamed lead vocals and played live bass. The end result is a great mixture of cold synthesized sound with harsh human aggression that we've rarely matched since.

Rather than trying relay how I was feeling at the time I wrote the lyrics to this song, I'll simply share the words with you. My mental and emotional state will become quite apparent.

I'm living in waste

I try to break free

I'm trying to get out to make you see

This is not how life should be

Living in this sympathy

Follow me, talk to me

I'll try to show you the way

Follow me, talk to me

I'll try to show you the way

The way

I'm tired of this, I'm tired of this

I want to get away

I'm tired of this, I'm tired of this

Oh just go away

People always telling me

That I'm not OK

Living in their glass houses

Letting life slip by

Watching their bank accounts

Grow above their heads

Waiting for the day

Their spouse is dead

Is dead

Waiting for the day

Their spouse is dead

Is dead

Dead (repeat)

I guess I had some issues. Here's the track. Enjoy!