This track started out life as a disquiet junto challenge a couple years ago:
Assignment: re-tell a single-page comic strip, 99 Ways To Tell A Story [Panel 1], by Matt Madden:
Background (via disquiet.com): “Matt Madden’s single-page comic is the template for a book he created titled 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. In the book, Madden told that same story 99 different ways, each in a different comic-book style. For example, he told it as a superhero comic, he told it as a manga, he told it as experienced from upstairs, and he told it as if it were overheard at a bar. Madden did this in homage to the French writer Raymond Queneau’s own Exercises in Style, which is a key text of the literary movement known as Oulipo. Oulipo approaches the act of writing with intentional constraints, and the movement’s approach to creativity was a strong influence on the development of the Disquiet Junto. Oubapo is the name of the comics version of Oulipo. What we’re up to is the musical version: Oumupo.”
Original track is here.
Time to make up your mind
Time never falls behind
Time to make up your mind and close the doorShe drew you in, black and white
From her studio in the sky
She drew you eight times ninety-nine…Frames in time
And you will never escape that night
Until you make up your mind
And close the doorShould’ve paid off those bills
Should’ve laid off those pills
Should’ve written one more word
Before you put your machine to sleepWhat the hell were you looking for
when you opened up that door?
What the hell were you looking for,
if not time?It’s just like Jack once said
“Bittersweet life is at best.”
It’s just like King Jack once saidYou’re framed in time
And you will never escape that night
If you never make up your mind
Yeah, you’re framed in time
And you’ll never escape that night
Until you make up your mind
And close the door