It's been a weird time of late yeah? is it always a weird time? If we're not on fire we're bombing one another or yelling or getting upset about Stuff that we seem to create as a society.
We really are a cup of tea and sandwich away from just working it out as a species. Maybe the imminent arrival of our Alien social workers will aid us. Yeah heck yeah. Let's not sort it out, let's wait for Little Green Men to fix everything cos that's even more rational than what we're doing now.
Sadly even in parody that seems right.
Nonetheless, onwards to the stuff which is...other stuff. Sometimes it's good to take a break from all that whirling stuff out there right?
First big ups to Los Melchains. Friend of the band and fellow song enthusiast Terry changed the name from Space Engineer to Melodic Chainsaws and does not approve of my diminuitive. But I approve wholeheartedly of their songs.
Secondly...I finally got Giants Fall sorted. Yay! Felt Like I was waiting months. Which I was. Cos paaaaatient is the Basilisk.
That means I am in final run down towards completion of this one. Yaaaaaay!!! You dear reader, may recall that I set a deadline for parts in September which everyone happily ignored, while I confounded myself on two songs that were not ripe.
I made a point this time around of not chasing anyone, letting things instead fall into place. Well thank heavens they finally did.
I'm now in final mixing on one of the last songs, awaiting parts for one more which are imminently inbound - Theo didnt get flute but he gets Sax tho...
From there it's into final polishing and because I am doing the mastering the turn around time between completion and release is telescoped.
Of course there's still art and such to come but hey. Music's cooking right?
Stay safe out there, it's weird. Happy Seasonal Stuff.
Replacement Heroes
You’ve been
Down in the coal mines
Trapped on the sidelines
Victim of hard times
We’re so happy to see you
Don’t want to be you
Who gave you that veto
Come on
Enough already
Come on
We know you’re ready
Come on
You’d never know
Come on
all the lies we tell to get you to the show
We are your replacement heroes
You’ve been
Following white lines
Paying the poor fines
Squandering your mind
We’ve been
Doing the white crimes
Plundering gold mines
Having a fine time
Come on
My hands are steady
Come on
It’s mom’s spaghetti
Come on
The chicks are ready
Come on
Dead celebrity
(chorus) we are..
Come on
Where do you get it
Come on
It’s ever ready
Come on
The cash is steady
Come on
Dead celebrity
We are your replacement heroes
Might not be much but its better than zero
Hi there kids welcome to the show
Don’t you wanna hear all those songs you used to know
Pink is dead like so many before him
Stack the bodies up before it gets too morbid
We are you replacement heroes
(c) 2023 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Folded from one sheet of paper
Leaving no trace of your maker
And so without belief in Nothing
You test the limits of your suffering
to find again that there's no distance
the world outside's the one within you
Telling me to mind my place
Kiss the hem of your brocade.
this time
All the kings and queens
bow down before you
to venerate the Portion you control
it’s how we’ll keep yourself
from ever looking
down to the furthest recess
of your soul
go and break my heart
go and break my heart
go and break my heart
when the wheel turns around and brings me where you lay
this time
and it cursed the eyes that ever saw you
to frame your sacrifice in black and white
with your hands and knees clasped out before
you did they notice that you lay down like a child to die?
tell me can you finally hear the silence?
That’s the sound it makes when giants fall
To see your innocence undone in violence
when the sacred’s stolen from the world
And it’s only when it happens to you
you get to feel like everybody else
and though I’m trying so hard to accept it
all I want is to forget myself
Got a report from the marketing department and frankly I think they may have been huffing paint thinner or got their Comma's in the wrong spot but nope.
I looked, checked and had Theo and E. check and the numbers are the numbers.
For reasons as yet unknown to me, Don't Take It So Hard has been featured in some popular TikTok'ers page and has received... 96,670,000 views. That's 96 with a Million after it.
No wonder our Youtube Views are climbing.
Well that's a turn up for the books.