Sunday, June 7, 2026

Comfort & Fear | PTSD A song

 



So recorded some music, came back later, made up some lyrics and added vocals and made a draft of a song I now call Comfort and Fear.  Made this miming the vocal line as a joke.

Didn't spend long on the lyrics. Just trying different words, with a theme, actually 2 themes and try and sing them. Sounding right being as a song is probably better than having the right meaning as text. 

I am doing a VOYAGER DOCTOR like thing in the above joke video with over emoting it all, trying to be human. I am not going to be doing any lip sync videos, that is for sure. 

The vocal chain this time doesn't use my VintageVerb, but ReaVerb with a LEXICON 480L plate IR. I can't hear the difference though.




My vocal delivery is probably more "musical theater" than rock or metal, as I try and make the lyric very clear. Even if the words themselves end up being ambiguous, which allows the meaning to be interpreted by others as they please.

The 8 and 6 string guitars used:




Made this DRAFT music+ comic on it about 2 stories around PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 心的外傷後ストレス障害




I may change the lyric after I play it a bit and get completely sick of it, like I normally do. Having Nightmare twice in a verse seems wrong, and I may change it to something else.


Comfort and Fear can be interpreted in various ways. I have observed foreign residents in Japan all over social media having that "Comfort & Fear" thing.  I did the first time I was here to some extent, but mostly from "I don't know how things work here" for the first years. 

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