Aesthetics and Names

Thinking about aesthetics here, I think we could pull off a really sweet "dark dazzle" look with ease. The first thing that comes to mind is something like what Zola Jesus does... but I also just want to do something original and highly captivating and conversational. Anyway, take a look at Zola Jesus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM8fEP8FOqE (awesome video)
That's just a start. As I said, I want our on-stage presence to be our own creation so don't want to influence it too much.

Name ideas:
deadpan moon
whorled chain
moonless covers
sorrowing spiders
day spiders
variations
european vacation

My friend made an interesting point the other day about sharing names with other bands. He pointed out that your basically competing with those n other bands to be the best [insert name here]. I guess it's kind of true, albeit kind of shitty if another band is exceptionally rad.

Reverb Chris, can you put spring reverb on our stuff? I was playing around with it today and thought it sounded really cool, kind of garage-y. Can we try it on some of our songs?

i really love the word "spider". its creepy, its fun to say, its visually pleasing with the "p" being the upside down "d", maybe we could use this somehow in our band name?

im not sure how i feel about "a shade of greigh". maybe spider could be an ALBUM TITLE?

i would really like a "the" name too, but i dont know. the shade of greigh?
i also dont think we should be too concerned if another small band across the world is using the same name. its silly to be worried about, as long as its unique.

just some thoughts.

-julia

DEPRESSING POP LOVE POWER BALLAD LYRICZ

Always turn your back on me
hang up the phone
dont want to talk right now
leave me alone
but the clock on the wall
is laughing at me
and the bird in the cage thatll never be free

and back up, wind up, its all over again
till you come running and im waiting again

its just a case of letting the bird out
"things happen naturally"
just open the cages
come on let the bird out
you say
just let the bird out
let the bird out

i take too many memories
swallow them down
we just havent earned it yet
the upside down frown
always leave me hanging
like a noose on the wall
never wish i met you
ever met you at all

and we use words like love
to get out of jail free
till you make up your mind
and really want me

its just a matter of letting the bird out
"things happen naturally"
just open the cages
come on let the bird out
you say
let the bird out...
let the bird out

http://www.slolum.com/band/FascinationStreet.mp3

http://www.slolum.com/band/RedDwarf2.mp3

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Red Dwarf (re-edit of lyrics)

VERSE 1
is this new blood stained robe to wear?
rips and tears
we play
these games

another contest that you won't win
bulls and matadors
we dance
and chase

VERSE 2
every red dwarf worth its weight in caves
like black holes
black holes

a clear night to find the answers in
constellations
where do we begin?

CHORUS?
another promise I make to myself
I'm weaker
I cave, I cave

you won't remember me tonight

FINALE
smooth warped fabric holds the key
plays games with me
i won't
give in

another promise I make to myself
I'm weaker
I cave
I cave

something about nature, cities and maybe falling in love...

CHORUS:
The back aches
the knees break
you pull away
from the embrace

VERSES:
shadows in the trees
lovers in the leaves
a cool night rain
brings curious feelings

secrets grow between
cracks in the pavement
lifted by roots
of romantic silence

running down alleys
op'ning to streets
bright with lamp lights
lush with memories

the scent of thickness
evaporating
the sun lifting
revealing; abiding

is this delusion?
friendly deception?
a divine spark
placing love in my lap

CHRIS HERE

So I compiled all the lyrics we've used in a single file separate from the note pad.

I've worked a bit on them, adding second or third verses for all the unfinished ones.

I hope you like the new stuff I've written. Murp.

Kat: I noticed you also used the "pallid colour" line in the new lyrics for Cranes which we already used in Ruby, but I realized I actually really like that, I think it's cool if some themes repeat across multiple songs.

So yeah, we currently have 9 songs total, and 3 more or less finished songs (The Wreckage, Ruby, and The Lost Room In The Grand Hotel. Clay Pigeons is also mostly done, we just need to decide on structure.)

(The 9th song, which doesn't have lyrics yet, would be the first one me and Julia started before Kat joined, I still really want to use that one).

Here are all the most up to date lyrics:



Clay Pigeons


when it's like
we are two moons
in orbit tonight

there is a tide
sinking all ships

when it's like
we are distant
in our bed tonight

and I hope you
die and I hope
its your fault and
I won't be there

and it tears
you apart








The Wreckage


we will never leave these bodies
these bodies make us whole
we tear off our eyelids to see the wreck below

we will never leave this wreckage
this wreckage is our home
your smile is dissolving the rain
you wash away

i was watching you grey
stumbling down
i smiled and waved
you were throwing grenades

we will never leave this prison
this prison's become home
we deny ourselves company
we sit alone

i imagined us

i turned left and you werent there at all









Candy


oceans would weep for our demise
and skies bleed blue
like candy eyes

onceans would sink our best defence
and skies crack wide
any pretense







Ruby


you pick your pallid colour
you make the moon for me
you pick your pallet well
paint upon the canopy

the moon sets
and the sun grows red
all lies end
drawn to dust instead

you brush the fading stars
swept from the firmament
you paint me cochineal
tell me it's heaven sent








The Lost Room In The Grand Hotel


like hotel
room keys and
hotel room doors
room service
making nights
on hotel floors

like nightmares
that fade fast
locked doors
deny my passage
making plans
on something lost

lonely lives in the entrance way
lonely leaves me nothing to say

this room leaves with nothing to say








The Sabotuer



not letting this
get away this
time
I'm always
the saboteur

I don't want to

not letting this
get out of hand
you're angry
and I understand






Cranes


hear my words, are they voiceless?
scream my song, is it painless?
with inscriptions burned in marble
and words heav'ly etched into stone

how they spill from lips crimson
each one a drop of poison
I'll end up in the ground with you
if I stay here longer

the best one to bind is you
signatures fold in octavo
what I say shall never fade
I'll find it trapped in this eternal

I'm suffocating on these sounds
asphyxiating while I drown
words are hands around my throat
oration takes a tone so mute

keep the rayless morning cold
and the dusty clouds rapt
when a heart as big as yours
is all the light can hold

pick up your pallid colour
make up the moon for me
I know too well the colour
of the secrets you keep

in the first pallor of dawn
you shine just like a sun
under the vanishing starlight
and brightening night

you're too bright to be so dark





Red Dwarf


another contest that you won't win
bulls and matadors
they dance
they chase

every red dwarf worth its weight in caves
like black holes

another promise I make to myself
I'm weaker
I cave, I cave

you won't remember me tonight