Livin Is Bling

Breathe Me In

February 9, 2017 by Aaron

aaron j. trumm, break ups, breathe me in, dr. thunda, love, michael clifford, n8$, nathan menhorn

Breathe Me In – a saddish break up type song, from Livin Is Bling. Here we have Nathan Menhorn (N8$) on drums, Michael Clifford (Thunda) on bass, Aaron (me) on keys and vocals. Mixed right here in river city at NQuit Music, and mastered by John Greenham at John Greenham Mastering.

It’s a sad song, yes, but it’s also sort of triumphant and redemptive. I mean, at least I think so. At least that’s what we were trying for. 🙂

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Here’s the lyrics!

you been lookin pretty good these days
you been lookin pretty fine i’d say
you been lookin pretty lonely too
i been thinkin i should rescue you

you been lookin pretty angel face
i been lookin for a pity case
you been lookin for a way to get away from me

this is the devil’s land
a blood wet hand
nobody over here remember the plan
so i keep on runnin the direction i been goin
and i cannot stop until i make it to the end
so don’t you give me any reason to remember that i’m dangerous
and i’m never to be trusted
now if you want a bait and switch
we can do that
everybody knows the situation
ain’t what it used to be
because you caught me at a time when i could not see
and i been lookin through the dust tryin to get my path
and i been waitin for a little rain to wet my wrath
now wait a minute which of us was needin a pity screw?
can’t remember anything (gimmee a minute dude)
brain is breakin down i don’t know what’s true
goddamn would you believe that i thought it was you?

breathe me in
one time before you go
come over here and breathe me in
one more time before you go

you been lookin like a goddess baby
ever since you came my way
and i been lookin for a way to let you go

got a little bit of rock n roll runnin through me
always think i need to break down the way it need to be
like
“if you wanna be my woman and you want me to be your man you gotta follow the plan”
see?
so let me get up around your face
let me wrap around your head like a cold case
and let me breathe what i normally see let me be
let me do what i normally won’t do and listen to you
and maybe everything you say can make me realize that i’m virtuous
and i’m never gonna hurt you
i know that you can see that i done been
broke down beat round makin a sick sound
wander round town lookin upside down
i need to come down get my feet on the ground
why why why why would you wanna stay my way?

breathe me in
one time before you go
come over here and breathe me in
one more time before you go

do yourself and me a favor girl
and don’t push me away
come over here and breathe me in
i wish that you would stay
come over here and breathe me in
we need to find a way

breathe me in
one time before you go
come over here and breathe me in
one more time before you go

Strong Happy Healthy Free

January 17, 2017 by Aaron

aaron j. trumm, donate life, hip-hop, nquit, nquit music, organ donation, rap, strong happy healthy free, transplant, transplant games, unos, world transplant games

22 people die every day waiting for organ transplants. There are currently 119,000 people waiting.

The above song and video, “Strong Happy Healthy Free” is dedicated to them. In July of 2013, I was lucky enough to receive a life saving double lung transplant, which revived me in ways I can never even describe. I’m forever grateful, and this mantra “I am strong, I am happy, I am healthy, I am free” was my main mantra through the trials of a “transplant saga”, as my family called it. This is song is dedicated to anyone going through similar trials, and hopefully it reminds you that you can get through.

Images from this video are from the Donate Life Transplant Games of America, which celebrates new life and brings awareness about the importance of organ donation. As a life long athlete, I’m a big ol’ supporter of the US and World Transplant Games, and I participate! I was a 100 meter bronze medalist in the 2014 US Games and took 2nd in the Lyrics For Life competition (a signing competition 🙂 ) in the 2016 US Games. Fun times! I believe in spreading awareness this way.

How can I help, you say?

Well there are a few things right now, that I’d love for you to do.

The World Transplant Games is upcoming, in Summer 2017, and Team USA could use your support. If you’re interested in helping team USA, you can make a TAX DEDUCTABLE donation here:I’ve set up my own fundraising page connected to Team USA and I’d love to raise $1150 for the team by April 15, 2017!
You can of course also support the making of more music and videos by me and the team here at NQuit Music, and spread the message while you’re at it! Get the T-Shirt (or the long sleeve version I wear in the video) and download the single!

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You could save multiple lives, restore sight, and make all kinds of other positive difference.

Thanks for listening, watching, and reading!

— Aaron J. Trumm

Open Oceans

July 1, 2016 by Aaron

aaron j. trumm, love, music video, nquit music, open oceans, ptsd, stop loss, war

Here is Open Oceans. I wrote this tune in about 2008 or so on an acoustic guitar. It’s the first time I tried writing with a guitar and playing and singing simultaneously. I ended up playing the repetitive acoustic guitar on the actual record. There’s another couple of electric parts that I added, and then more electric parts by my friend Paul Lafourest. He also played the bass on this. My buddy Nathan Menhorn is the drummer.

The lone female vocal is Jenny Malin, who is now passed away 🙁 There’s also Paul on backing vocals, and our friend Lacey on extra female vocals. There’s a lot of density in the song, but it can be done pretty pared down.

This song is about stop loss. The woman character is waiting for the soldier to come home, but stop loss has him staying longer. Stop loss is when the military disallows scheduled retirement or return from duty in order to keep soldiers in the field. In the end, he’ll be coming back, but with PTSD.

What can you even say about PTSD? I will say this – a LOT of people have a little bit of PTSD, and it can come from the obvious stuff like going to war, or being a cop, or living in a really rough neighborhood, or being physically abused as a child, but it can also come from other places, like trauma surrounding your health, or psychological abuse that can come from a lot of places. What PTSD does is it makes you react to every conflict as if it were life and death, and this makes it very very hard to communicate.

The good news is, it’s a problem that can be solved (usually). To that end, I’ll be donating 15% of revenue from this song and video to a worthy cause that helps do this. I’m not allowed to say which charity, but it’s good, and I spent a goodly amount of time researching who was really doing good work for that cause. So, to help with that, you can GET YOUR DOWNLOAD OF THE TRACK HERE.

The thing that I notice in these lyrics is that at the end I’m like “gonna need your love to remain revealed”…because that’s so important. The way to really start to get out of being conditioned to be violent is love. And man…I dunno what I can even say about it. Love, dude. Love.

Here are the lyrics to this tune, so you can see ’em and such:

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

been back deep in these open oceans
bad world tracks and these backward notions
everything they have in the world is not
enough to wanna shorten the time i got
even so i run with american forces
sand gun and tanks are replacing horses
and if you come back with enough you might
sleep a little better in your bed tonight

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

i been runnin from my bones for days
lookin for another way i can say this to ya
i ain’t never really comin home
they got another little trick
in they bag o stones
they call it stop loss
and it means i ain’t comin back
so make a little snack go to bed and relax
and i’ll give you a call when i’m over the wall
but we’re gonna have to run so fuck ’em all

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

there are too many ways i can die for you
there are too many days in my life for you
there are too many things I can do for you
what you do for me?
what you do for me?

she been spendin her days makin eyes for you
she been spendin her life waitin up for me
what you do for me?
what you do for me?
come on come on come on come on now

they got me built up past the brink
i’m nothin but a pile of muscle i’m about to sink
can’t float can’t swim can’t fly away
can’t get to the end of the fight today
i got a castle made of blood and my bones are mud
can’t bang my brain on the manly stud
they make me eat this food til i need to puke
gonna break this dude and i won’t rebuke
gonna slip away gonna come to you
but you gotta remember that i won’t be through
gonna need your light to remain revealed
gotta leave this war on the battlefield

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

love i’m waiting til the mornin light
just to see whether not you might
don’t make me have to tell you twice
i been leavin my light on night after night

And here’s the lyric video, so you can follow along:

So there you have it – Open Oceans. See ya soon!

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