The Call - Reported Failure ft. Riot! in the Boulevard
Release date: August 2nd
Label: Nomad Records
Producer: Vin Peters

Blue - Billie Beckett
Red - Amy Meyer
Green - Both

The Call (Previously Unreleased)
[Lyrics - Beckett/Peters]
I said you could run (run)
I said you could run (run)
I said you could run (run)
Away with me

You don't have to think
You just have to be
On this dead beat road with me
We wont have to hide
We wont have to hide
We wont have to hide

But I'll answer the call
to leave part of myself here
I'll keep you in my heart
But I can't breathe until next year
All the stories we swore we'd tell
I never thought that they'd be tragedies
But I'll answer the call
I'll answer the call

We would run on the sands of the ocean
We would sing until our lungs gave out
We'd lye there until the tide came to take us
The headlines would read "Lovers Dead At Sea"

You don't have to think
You just have to be
On this dead beat road with me
We wont have to hide
We wont have to hide
We wont have to hide

But I'll answer the call
to leave part of myself here
I'll keep you in my heart
But I can't breathe until next year
All the stories we swore we'd tell
I never thought that they'd be tragedies
But I'll answer the call
I'll answer the call

Music: The song begins with soft sounding acoustic guitar chords joined by a Strawberry Fields type keyboard sound. Very deep booming almost epic sounding drums join in once Amy Meyer begins singing. Some violins and bass join in for the chorus while Vin's guitar remains plugged in but silent. This changes in the short second verse. vin breaks out the overdriven guitar to play corresponding to two loud drum beats by Robert Edwards. He plays more loud power chords at half notes throughout the verse. He tones ot down by palm muting on the prechorus before going all out with all of the other instruments on the chorus. The violins and drums break things down slightly making way for an Alice in Chains style guitar solo from Vin that duels harmoniously with Riot! guitarist Justin Mullen. The climax of the song comes as both guitarists joined by the violins play a progression ending with a single jaw dropping note that is joined by symbol crashes a short moment of silence and then the final chorus.

Background: With their upcoming best of album "Reported Failure and Friends", the sacramento quartet frontman Billie Beckett explained why this song was chosen as a single. "We actually didn't plan on this being a single. We have a newer song that was the first thing we wrote after getting back together but didn't fit on Post-Grunge Catastrophe and that was planned to be the only single. then we went in and recorded this song with Amy and Justin from Riot! in the Boulevard. After it was done and we played it I basically just looked over at Vin and we both had this expression of amazement on our face. We met with some people at Nomad that night and made plans.

"The song itself was a b-side on our second album Flux of the Run. We liked it, and our fans liked it, and we thought recording it with Riot! would be perfect. They are basically my favorite new artist and I'm not just saying that because we're on the same label. So we recorded it with them and it just went great. I hope that the song goes over well and people really enjoy it".