Chords for The Correspondents - 'Alarm Call': The Making Of

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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ We've actually been spending [B] a long time on the album and it's [Dm] sounding pretty good now. _ _ _ _
We've got to a stage [A] really where I'm not needed because Chuck is down to the [G] _ polishing
and the [Gm] tweaking parts where [G] it's all flying over my head and it's way too technical.
[Am] So he is [B] in his studio _ busy [Abm] mixing down and mastering and making [Ab] all the bleeps and beats
sound [Am] warm and fat in all the right places.
_ _ _ And I've decided to busy myself in [Ab] my studio and make another [G] animation.
_ I [Ab] actually promised [Eb] myself that I'd never _ [D] make another animation because the last one was certainly insane.
[F] _ _ [B] I've decided to make _ [Eb] this particular animation [A] for a track called An Uncle,
_ [Am] _ which we often [A] play at the beginning of our sets.
It's rather dark and sombre and grueling.
_ _ _ _ I've [Ab] decided to do an animation in paint this time rather than it [C] being hand drawn.
_ _ _ The music [E] video is loosely speaking a portrait project _ which charts the aging process.
So to use this [A] canvas as an example, which is my face, _ _ I have _ collected loads of photographs of myself _ _ _ _ _ _
throughout my life, so from a [C] baby to now. _
_ _ And I've then painted [D] the image of myself as a [C] baby onto this canvas.
[A] And then on top of that, the image of myself as [E] a two year old and then a four year old and then a six year old.
[G] So the paint just gets layered and layered and layered and layered.
[E] And I've [Bb] _ _ [Ab] documented this by [G] _
_ taking a photograph every eight seconds.
I've got this little [A] control and it just snaps away. _
[G] _ And then you condense all _ these images down, _ [Ab] _
taking out [Gm] all of the images of my [A] hand.
And then you end up with this [Ab] rather sort of [G] weird looking _ _ _ animated _ _ _ [D] painting that sort of paints [Am] itself. _ _ _
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So there _ [Dm] _ are also within [Am] this [G] _ idea of [Ab] documenting the [D] aging process,
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_ [Em] there's a lot of [Am] stop motion elements that _ _ hopefully look really [E] cool and sync up with the music.
_ _ And [Am] then this canvas reacts [Dm] to a canvas next door, [G] which I have actually done here.
[A] _ _ _ So _ hopefully we _ [F] weave some sort [Em] of _ _ [D] compelling narrative together.
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