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STROWLERS is Zombie Orpheus Entertainment's urban fantasy show concept and shared multimedia world that tells the stories of “hypercreative malcontent[s]” who have the guts to believe in magic (and to keep practicing it, as well as protecting others with magical abilities, even when doing so makes them outlaws). Sooj is proud to support the project as a songwriter. The #Strowlers team wants the project to have a strong open source storytelling aspect, which will empower anyone and everyone who resonates with the concept, with a platform for the stories THEY want to tell.
Watch clips:
www.zombieorpheus.com/videos/playlist/8/video/0/
Learn more: wiki.zombieorpheus.com/index.php/Strowlers:The_Strowlers
"Burn Me Out" is the series anthem, commissioned by show creator Ben Dobyns in 2014, now released for the first time.
From Sooj:
I wanted this one to be something anyone with a guitar could play with just four chords in the following arrangement:
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
F F C C G G Am Am F F C C G G G G
I wanted to write a decent protest song that would honor the Strowlers story and concept, as well as its open source nature. Strowlers believe that magic is for everyone. So is music. Please share and enjoy this tune, and learn to play and sing it yourself if you're inspired to do so.
Lyrics:
Burn me out, draw the lightning down
Stand up, face your equal
Turn this world around
Go on and burn me out,
catch me if you can, I'm gonna
draw the lightning down
Coming bold or meek,
stand and face your equal, and we'll
turn this world around, oh
(Burn me out, draw the lightning down
Stand up, strowler
Turn this world around)
Call me an outcast, call me a thief
Close your eyes to my whole magic show
Turn away from what I have to say
The powerless have powers you will never know
We're all just storytellers
dreaming out loud to pass the time
I know my enemy shares my own fragility
but if you've got the spark, you're
bound to get fire
Go on and burn me out,
catch me if you can, I'm gonna
draw the lightning down
Coming strong or weak,
stand and face your equal, and we'll
turn this world around
Call me a criminal for what I hold inside
Behind your eyes you know we are the same
Call on the Storyteller, what's in the cards for you?
I know the choice is clear:
compassion over fear for the
magic we can do
Go on and burn me out,
catch me if you can, I'm gonna
draw the lightning down
Coming strong or weak,
stand and face your equal, and we'll
turn this world around
Call me an outcast, call me a thief
Close your eyes to my whole magic show
Turn away from what I have to say
The powerless have powers you will never know
If you don't have the spark you'll
never see fire, but we've got the match right here
Let the world awake. Make no mistake
we will still be standing when the
smoke has cleared
Go on and burn me out,
catch me if you can, I'm gonna
draw the lightning down
Coming bold or meek,
stand and face your equal, and we'll
turn this world around
Go on and burn me out,
catch me if you can, I'm gonna
draw the lightning down
There's only one ride
if we're gonna survive, we gotta
turn this world around
We may be out of focus, but we're
proud to let it show
We burn without the burning and we
do not care who knows
Try to kill what's beautiful,
stand back and watch it grow
Got a different kind of burning and we
do not care who knows
Renegades and rascals, we are
all the same as you
standing up for magic and the
magic we can do
Try to hide the mystery, it's
gonna shine through
We stand up for magic and the
magic we can do
Burn me out, draw the lightning down
Stand up, face your equal
Turn this world around
Guitars, lead vocals, music, lyrics, and mixing by S. J. Tucker
Strowlers choir: Cade Tinney, Betsy Tinney, Phil Brucato, Damiana Swan, Ryan Loyd, Clint McCune, and S. J. Tucker
Bass by Phil Brucato
Djembe by Clint McCune
Cello by Betsy Tinney
Initial tracking & mix-down at Pinecoon Studio, Redmond; 2018 tracking and remix at The PixieHouse, Petit Jean Mtn.