From the recording Glass Break Dementia
<p>So what is the 5th dementia, anyway? Possibly, it was the dementia that led me to think I could play this correctly on overdubs without a click track...<br /><br />Generally, the lyric is about taking myself down a peg while encouraging me to keep it together and not sweat the small stuff. In typical fashion I was both proud of and repulsed by the horrid "dimension" / "dementia" puns I kept putting out there, the conflictedness delaying the completion of the song for about 3 years. I would work on it for a few days, get stuck, and move on to more natural creations. But it would simply not leave me alone, so there you have it.<br /><br />The music to the bridge (the part mostly in 7/8) and chorus was written in 2006. I tried several different sets of music for the verses, most even more oblique than the rest of the song. I'm pleased with the verses as they ended up, though -- straightforward enough to allow room for a bit of wiseacre smarm in the vocal.<br /><br />The fade in and fade out are overdriven guitar run through my Ibanez delay/echo on infinite repeat. Oh, and spot the sounds of a bad cable shorting out between the chorus and 2nd verse! <br /><br />I have an idea for re-recording this (yes, *with* click track) with less fuzzy guitars and more space in the mix. If I do that and get it right, it'll come out as a digital single or on an EP.<br /><br /></p>
Lyrics
<p>It was demented to brag about my length<br /> It was demented to say my mind was wide<br /> open, as if just saying gave it strength<br /> as if the truth can hide the slide inside<br /> <br /> No depth or height can stop this<br /> No brains or might can top this<br /> <br /> It's wide open season<br /> It's long past overdue<br /> It's high up beyond reason<br /> And it is time I saw it through<br /> The fifth dementia's up to you<br /> <br /> It was demented to call myself so deep<br /> It was demented to say I had the time<br /> traveling on, I price my talk as cheap<br /> tricks just for kids to climb the slime sublime<br /> <br /> No length or width can pinch ya<br /> don't take the fifth dementia<br /> <br /> It's time that I embolden<br /> It's long past overdue<br /> It's wide open and golden,<br /> solid and high like Ms. McCoo<br /> koo-koo but absolutely true<br /> the fifth dementia's up to you...<br /> <br /> It's wide open season<br /> It's long past overdue<br /> It's high up beyond reason<br /> And it is time I saw it through<br /> The fifth dementia's up to you</p>