I’ve enjoyed Imaginary Enemy so much, and was so excited by the video that I decided to create a tutorial on how to play an acoustic version. Hopefully this will help anyone out there who might be interested in learning and playing it themselves. You can follow along with the tabs and video below if you’re musically inclined and keep an eye out for other Circa song tutorials down the road.

Enter a world where sugar is outlawed and dealers, cops and businessmen are all vying for control. Seems like irony and social questioning is a big theme in all of their videos, watch Things Work Out if you missed the earlier post.

Circa Survive Concert Dates for 2010:
3/11/10 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
3/12/10 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/ In
3/13/10 – Birmingham, AL @ WorkPlay Theatre
3/14/10 – Little Rock, AR @ The Village
3/16/10 – San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
3/17/10 – 3/21/10- Austin, TX (SXSW festival) @ TBD
3/22/10 – St. Louis,MO @ The Firebird
3/23/10 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Emerson Theater
3/24/10 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
3/26/10 – HOODWINK Anaheim, CA @ Grove of Anaheim
3/27/10 – THE BAMBOOZLE Anaheim, CA @ The Festival Grounds at Angels Stadium

So today while exploring new music I came across a song by Kid Cudi called The Prayer which had a familiar beat. Turns out the background music is sampled from The Funeral, that same song by Band of Horses being used in the BMX video. I just wanted to call it out in case anyone else is trying to figure out where that song is from and who it is by.

Great lyrics and structure in both songs, I’ve listed a few lines from each below to help match it up. I really like the way Kid Cudi’s lyrics take in actual lines from prayer and twist them around to fit his song. You can listen to Kid Cudi’s version here and watch the original song, The Funeral, from Band of Horses on their MySpace here.

Kid Cudi – The Prayer:
if I die before I wake
I pray to Lord my soul to take
but please don’t cry
just know that I have made these songs for you

and if I die before I wake
I pray to Lord my soul to take
cuz I’m ready for the funeral

Band of Horses – The Funeral:
I’m coming up only to hold you under
I’m coming up only to show you wrong
and to know you is hard and we wonder
to know you all wrong, we were

really too late to call, so we wait for
morning to wake you; it’s all we got
to know me as hardly golden
is to know me all wrong, they were

at every occasion I’ll be ready for a funeral
at every occasion once more is called a funeral
every occasion I’m ready for the funeral
at every occasion one brilliant day funeral