LNR3: Leif's 5-Year Plan (2002)

Leif's 5-Year Plan (LNR3) album cover

# Tracks 21
Total Time 61:01
Source Computer (.wav)
Src Date 1996 - 2002
Mixing Cool Edit 96, Acid 1
Mix Date 2002 (mostly)
Release Date

Album Notes

The third CD is a masterpiece. You should make some hot chocolate and heat up some Poptarts for this one. Get out your expensive headphones and settle down for some ear treats.

High quality mp3s of the tracks are here. 128kb/s, VBR 320kb/s, stereo.

Cover Art

The artwork is here.
(Images are 150 dpi.)

Songs

  1. Ted Was a Gay Man
    Track 1
    Length 2:05
    Size 2.0 MB
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    Notes The first voice in the beginning is the DJ guy from KLSU's local show back in December 1997 when I did the New Year's Eve show. The live bit goes back even further to 5 July 1996 when I played live at Bryson's Café, a christian café. You can hear them complaining about my "vulgarities".
    Lyrics

    Here's, uh... Leif recorded... um... live in the studio.
    (Shut up)
    Ted was a gay man
    He took it up the ass
    He liked all the homosexuals
    All up his street

    Ted refused me
    Ted turned me down

    Ted was a gay man
    He took it up the ass
    Ted didn't like me
    He turned his cheek

    Ted refused me
    Ted didn't think I was pretty
  2. P.E.I.
    Track 2
    Length 5:30
    Size 6.4 MB
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    Notes It stands for "Prince Edward Island". "P.E.I." just had the vowel sounds I needed for the chorus.
    Lyrics

    When I like to cause I like you
    I can take one step inside
    Don't you worry if you hurry
    We can go but don't ask why

    If you take one step inside
    I can take you to P.E.I.

    Found some water when I lost her
    She was gone and nearly died
    It opened right up and she said "so what?
    In thirteen days I didn't lie"

    If you take one step inside
    I can take you to P.E.I.

    I didn't watch her
    I couldn't find her when she was alive
    It made me wanna scream
    She couldn't be seen when she starts to cry
  3. Eat You
    Track 3
    Length 2:20
    Size 2.9 MB
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    Notes The first song from my miracle weekend (Sept 2002) where I recorded a song a day, Friday to Monday (I think). This one is about eating someone.
    Lyrics

    I grew some twine, tied you down
    I didn't plant no duck tape so your mouth is yelling I have found
    That tying ice inside your mouth
    Won't shut you up cause when it melts you scream another fifty hours

    I just wanna eat you cause nothing ever grows here
    All your pretty long hair will get stuck in my throat
    I'll eat as much as I can and freeze the rest for later
    But I oughta put a sticker with the date I put you in

    Maybe I got you wrong
    I should have tied a better knot, the one I did is slipping up
    But I don't think it matters much
    You passed out quite a while ago, before I dine I think we'll fuck
  4. Please Have Sex With Me
    Track 4
    Length 1:42
    Size 2.0 MB
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    Notes Written in March 1999, only now does it get recorded.
    Lyrics

    Please have sex with me
    I've been standing here alone with my pants around my knees
    'Cause it's been way too long and I'm dying for release
    Please have sex with me

    Maybe the rain has begun to affect my brain
    Or is it the summer time
    I would love to take you out, I would nail and I'd pound
    And then I'd hear you cry, cry "oh my"

    Please have sex with me
    Five years is too long to be touching only me
    The sun will come out and we'll fuck under a tree
    So please have sex with me

    Something inside is begging to be pleased
    And it seems like it's years or maybe it's only weeks
    I can't tell anymore and I'm sick of being teased
    So please have sex with me
    Have sex with me
  5. Withered Pictures (Whisper Remix)
    Track 5
    Length 2:19
    Size 2.6 MB
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    Notes A remix of something that was on Dead Pigs. One of the few ways I wanted to remix the original.
    Lyrics

    Leave me behind for I am afraid
    Lying in bed for days I have laid
    Look past me and out through the door
    With all they took and still they want more

    I, oh I lie
    Withered pictures pass before my eyes
    Withered pictures pass before my eyes

    Lying and losing and cheating deceiving
    Tearing and ripping and biting and beating
    Mincing and bashing and splatter the grinding
    Still it is missing but still I'm not finding

    I, oh I lie
    Withered pictures pass before my eyes
    Leaving dusty fingerprints of time
  6. Station Identification
    Track 6
    Length 0:11
    Size 0.2 MB
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    Notes Just fill in the city and radio station call letters and you're all set to have me endorse your station. The most efficient way to sell out.
    Lyrics

    Hi, this is Leif, and when I'm in ___ I listen to ___, the f__ing home of true rock.
  7. Bob
    Track 7
    Length 3:25
    Size 4.1 MB
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    Notes Holy crap! This was written in December 1997! Makes me think that I really haven't developed musically in the past 5 years.
    Lyrics

    I don't know a Bob but if I did
    Be the coolest guy around
    He'd never smile and always frown
    He'd buy the coolest music

    Bob would hate to mow lawns
    He would hate the government
    He would always know what I meant
    Unlike you, he'd never be gone

    I don't know Bob

    Bob would stay up late
    He'd always try to fight his fate
    Bob would never feel that great
    He would hate to wait

    Bob's job would have to be the worst
    Washing dishes for some jerk
    Never knowing what he wants
    Scrubbing bullshit off of pots

    I don't know Bob

    Bob would realize we're doomed
    He would never leave his room

    I don't know Bob
  8. mf'n cool song
    Track 8
    Length 3:33
    Size 4.1 MB
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    Notes This was done back in 1998 with Mike when I was shown DDClip. This and "2-04-538" are early versions of the songs, but all other versions have been lost.
    Lyrics

    Mmm mmm mmm mmm
    Mmmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
    Hu hu hu hu huyah!
    I forgot what it was
    Maybe that's enough
    What?
    What are we doing?
  9. Reliable Rainproof Service Unit
    Track 9
    Length 5:40
    Size 6.0 MB
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    Notes The title comes from a sticker on a utility box outside a restaurant. The song took forever. Each beep you hear, each frequency is a different sine wave. Each beep has been carefully panned to its best position.
    Lyrics

    [none]
  10. Arm Caught in the Gears
    Track 10
    Length 4:50
    Size 4.9 MB
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    Notes My brother painfully blew into a didgeridoo and I used that one sample for the entire song. The tapping was done with some Australian tapping sticks and the big drum is from Talvin Singh. The song is about a man who works in a large industrial plant with lots of gears. He pokes at the machinery one day and gets pulled in, his humanity getting crushed and his cries becoming more and more distant.
    Lyrics

    [none]
  11. Sleepy
    Track 11
    Length 3:06
    Size 3.4 MB
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    Notes I can't find when this was recorded. I'm thinking it was 1996. Its inexactness remains intact, so you must regard it as something pure and simple.
    Lyrics

    [none]
  12. 2-04-538
    Track 12
    Length 2:11
    Size 2.3 MB
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    Notes This is the second track from the Mike DDClip sessions, along with "mf'n cool song".
    Lyrics

    It's so green
  13. Structure, Part 1
    Track 13
    Length 0:10
    Size 0.2 MB
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    Notes I found this woman talking by accident when looking online for the tones indicating a disconnected phone number. The harmonica is a first for me as I want to start adding more to my music. It's a fun instrument and sounds really cool.
    Lyrics

    Structure, part one. Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese into English.
  14. Running Down the Hall
    Track 14
    Length 2:22
    Size 2.7 MB
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    Notes Written in freakin July 1996, I'm only now recording it. I came up with a drum thing with the tambourine that wasn't meant for the song, but I liked it so much that I continued using it.
    Lyrics

    Running down the hall
    I heard you
    Don't trip and fall
    I heard you
    Hold me (hold me)
    Hold me

    Ahh

    Buy me some time
    Finish what's mine
    Take it away
    Whoah oo whoah oo
    I found it at last
    Lose it by chance
    Take it away
    Whoah oo whoah oo
  15. MSCL
    Track 15
    Length 0:49
    Size 0.8 MB
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    Notes From like episode 4 or 5 of "My So-Called Life". The dad was working on the rain gutters and was trying to his daughter's friend to help.
    Lyrics

    Hey! Hey! Hey, you wanna give me a hand with this? Wanna give me a hand? For a second! Gimme a hand! This! Wanna... Come over here! For a second! Gimme a hand!... "Gee, thanks, well, I'd I'd like to help you, sir, but I'm too busy picturing your daughter naked."
  16. The Kids Are Alright
    Track 16
    Length 2:45
    Size 3.5 MB
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    Notes I forget why I did this cover (by the Who) but I like the song, so I guess that's plenty of reason. The vocals were meant to just be demo, but I never felt like redoing them.
    Lyrics

    I don't mind other guys dancing with my girl
    That's fine, I know them all pretty well
    But I know sometimes I must get out in the life
    Better leave her behind
    The kids are alright

    Sometimes I feel I gotta get away
    Bells chime, I know I gotta get away
    And I know if I don't I'll go out of my mind
    Better leave her behind
    The kids are alright

    I know if I go things will be a lot better for her
    I had things planned but her folks wouldn't let her
  17. Rock, Part 3
    Track 17
    Length 3:43
    Size 4.1 MB
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    Notes This one is so old, originally 4-tracked in April 1996 and called "Needs Drums". The chorus alternates between badly lala-ing a melody and some weird keyboard-sounding thing (which actually comes from the vocals, too).
    Lyrics

    Bounce
    Come on, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up
    Hey!
  18. Fucking with the Children
    Track 18
    Length 3:03
    Size 3.6 MB
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    Notes The root of the lyrics are from May 1996 when I was sick of the mind-numbingness of a Physical Science class, right before I got into physics. The rest are 2002. The guitar riff came out of nowhere in Sept and I looked for old words to go with it.
    Lyrics

    You're fucking with the children and your mind it won't accept me

    Matted focus, stripped and clumped
    Leave you there and make you drunk
    Deaf ear, blind eye: did you get enough?

    Forty walls and empty space
    Cut your throat and then your face
    Take what I want 'case I don't give a fuck

    The lines go by and down you fall
    And all you hear is laughter

    I can't forget
  19. Stop the Night
    Track 19
    Length 4:52
    Size 6.1 MB
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    Notes The second song for a girl I briefly met in Jan 2002 (along with "P.E.I."), written in Feb. The original was just guitar and vocals and irritated me, so I redid the whole damn thing.
    Lyrics

    Stop the night, hold on to you
    I would like to trust you

    Many knives shout from the corner of your room
    Close your eyes, conspire and chase the darkness out of you

    When it feels like it never ends
    With your skull echoing the threats
    And you peel back your tender skin
    And lay down under your regrets
    Look at me, look at me, look at me

    Let it go, hold on to me
    Wanna know you trust me

    When it feels like it never ends
    With your skull echoing the threats
    And you peel back your tender skin
    And lay down under your regrets
    When you fear that which might come in
    Breaking holes to reach and to get in
    Look at me, look at me, look at me

    (She went to answer the door. Something inside her was telling her it was a bad idea, but she did it anyway. She opened the door without looking out to see who it was, thinking it was a friend who was supposed to come by. A man came in and pushed her down and started stabbing her chest with a knife. She cried for help but no one could hear. Blood collected in a puddle. The man left her for dead. She laid there for hours, staring at the ceiling. Not knowing what was real.)
  20. Excipient
    Track 20
    Length 3:48
    Size 4.1 MB
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    Notes I give up. I've had a lot of trouble mixing this with the serious bass going on. The bass is just some sine wavs I slapped together. The "organ" as well. And yes, the guitaring is me.
    Lyrics

    [none]
  21. Tsi
    Track 21
    Length 2:37
    Size 2.7 MB
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    Notes This one is about a girl who will never know it's about her.
    Lyrics

    Here I am and I'm wasting my breath
    Nothing I do can make any sense
    And I'm sitting down and turning away to the side

    You gave me back what I lent you last week
    I grinned like a dolt and looked down at my feet
    And I still can't think of anything to say

    No words are coming out right

    I can't make any sense
    Mumbling a lot
    Stutter a bit
    Spit when I talk
    And I can't concentrate enough to look like I really care

    You spun and gave up
    Flip of your hair
    I grinded my teeth and continued to stare
    And I still can't find a thing to say

    'Cause no words are coming out right
    No words are coming out right
    The air smells of you painted white
    There's nothing more that I can do