So hey, I'm releasing new songs on the web again. Yay! Here's one I wrote early this year, and in an uncharacteristic display of patience, even played live a few times before I recorded it.

I've had the chorus lying around for years, but it never became a song. One day I was noodling around and came up with the opening guitar riff, and the rest of it came out in a day or so. I recorded most of it in an evening, and then walked away from it for two weeks so that when I came back I'd forgotten all the awkward performance details, and all the layered guitars had melded together like the flavors of a really good lasagna left in the fridge for a night. Lasagna made with noodles of bittersweet clarity and tomato sauce of quiet resolve.

I'm also trying something new here: besides the free 128k MP3 download, you can also get a ZIP file containing a higher-quality 320k version of the song, an acoustic version, and an instrumental version, all for a measly dollar.

Think of it as a single with bonus tracks. BOOM, I just blew your mind.

There's even some artwork to go along with this track. Click the image above on the right to download it to your desktop, then throw it into iTunes or whatever. (Here's a tutorial I found.)

Lyrics after the jump. Enjoy!

Scott Andrew - You Promised

[audio:misc/Scott Andrew - You Promised (128k).mp3] Buy MP3 bundle for $1 (17MB ZIP file, includes acoustic and instrumental versions)

This audio work by Scott Andrew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

You've got a jealous heart you don't wanna be a part of anything you didn't have from the start 'cause you said so And we are a broken toy unfit for a girl or boy refusing anything that could bring you joy 'cause you say so

and you and I are working through something yeah, you and I are working through something here

you promised me that things would change but you and I, merely more of the same yeah but I can learn to stand without you now (but I still fall down sometimes)

I'm learning to hold my tongue don't wanna be outdone you see it in the faces of everyone I suppose so a sky full of winter gray I've been underneath for days but you could feel it coming from miles away with your eyes closed

and you and I are working through something yeah, you and I are working through something here

you promised me that things would change but you and I, merely more of the same yeah but I can learn to stand without you now (but I still fall down sometimes)

You've got a jealous heart...

you promised me that things would change but you and I, merely more of the same yeah but I can learn to stand without you now (but I still fall down sometimes) you promised me that things would change now you're up in the air now I'm out of your way yeah and now I've learned to stand without you now (but I still fall down)