Tuesday 26 April 2011

Leathery Wings

  This one was about what happens when you try to repress the angrier, darker side of yourself and follow only your best intentions (that builds up like pus inside until eventually you are sick with it and you really need to be lanced like a putrid boil and/or given some kind of cataclysmic enema of the soul). I wanted kinda punk, and got Jay to do a White Stripes kinda guitar to it to make it sound less like Green Day, as it used to sound uncomfortably like "When I Come Around." Jay also sang the highest notes in the chorus. I'm handling  vocals, bass guitar, and "thickening" drop D snarly guitars on the choruses, along with an end "solo" and some percussion. Again, would like Tyler K to do a bass line that's more varied, if he feels up to it.
  This is designed to follow a virtuous, "good intentions" kinda song on the album, which is all sappy and pretty, and then gets rudely "interrupted" by this song knocking to get in.  The "trick" in this one is that the rhyme scheme, oddly, involves rhyming the first word of every line with the last word of the previous one.


Leathery Wings
I envy the sought-for, the hunted, the wanted
Flaunted the attractions that make life a game
Lame house of memory seems to be haunted
Cries from the roots of the mountains again

Leathery wings batter my ribcage
Leathery wings tear through my veins
Leathery wings disrupt my nightmares
Leathery wings sear my brain

Small parts go missing, the gears grind together
Whether the power is flowing or no
Go to the place where you stand in the weather
Rip it all open, let everything show

Voices hysterical shriek, laugh, they're frantic
Clinic for fear that has made you its own
Groan of black terror is swirling, gigantic
Stand on the stone and throw everything down

Open the iron door, let out the blackness
Cackles and hooting that rend the night air
Fair is the light that will transfix the darkness
Burnt to a cinder the dragon despair

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