This is a song about graveyard tourism. It was inspired by a friend of mine, who thankfully isn’t as obsessed as the person in the song; but she does have the habit of visiting the graves of famous people. Tom Waits was a huge inspiration regarding the music and the vocals of this track. Who would have thought that? I made up the chords and melodies as I went along. I started out with the main rhythm and some minor chords on the acoustic guitar. The modulation after the first chorus is a homage to “Theme from Rawhide” by the legendary Blues Brothers. The initial song structure sounded way too nice, so I added lots of chromatic runs, all played on my keyboard. I do love the Wannabe-Mellotron-flute moment during the last chorus. The recording took place on the 5th and 6th October 2003. The second day was dominated by the vocals, which took forever. It also happened to be the day a new neighbour was moving in. It must have been rather confusing to hear my voice through the door. Anyway, the lesson learned during the making of “Graveyard Girl” was: there is no such thing as overdoing weird, noisy overdubs.<\/p>\n
Download the song: mp3<\/a> ogg<\/a> (more music<\/a>)<\/p>\n I saw her on the graveyard I saw her at the grave of Freddie Mercury And then one day she realized that she’s been to every graveyard on earth. Still, she couldn’t get enough. So she bought a gun and went… (words and music by Johannes Schult)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a song about graveyard tourism. It was inspired by a friend of mine, who thankfully isn’t as obsessed as the person in the song; but she does have the habit of visiting the graves of famous people. Tom Waits was a huge inspiration regarding the music and the vocals of this track. Who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heteroscedasticity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDressed in black
\nThere between the tombstones
\nShe was talking to the dead
\nKurt Cobain, George Harrison
\nMozart and Jim Morrison
\nFamous people make her day
\nAs long as they have passed away
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl, yes she is
\nYes she is<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nI saw her at the grave of J.R.R. Tolkien
\nJ.F.K., George Harrison
\nBeethoven, Jim Morrison
\nFamous people make her day
\nAs long as they have passed away
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl, yes she is
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl, yes she is<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJohnny Cash, George Harrison
\nJohn Lennon and Jim Morrison
\nFamous people make her day
\nAs soon as they have passed away
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl, yes she is
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl
\nShe’s a graveyard girl, yes she is<\/strong><\/p>\n