Suicide Demo for Kara Walker Lyrics
I'm on a roll.
Plain brown wrapper in your pocket.
Is it still the invisible man you're consorting with,
Woman?
You got it all... Backwards, Girl.
Enter through the exit, and exit through the entrance
When you can.
Seen you consort with your invisible manhole.
New York City just wants to see you naked
(And they will).
Though they'd never say so.
Wise, old, black and dead in the snow:
My southern sister...
Flesh and blood, my death close at hand! Sister,
This is not about me and it's not about you, I swear!
No hard feelings, nothing personal, soft sculpture rides the air,
For free...
Longings, longings, longings...
All in vain...
Just ask Vanity, abandoned out in the rain
By the world, another proud American...
Harmless little Negress,
You've got to say yes
To another excess...
Let's go for a ride today...
In possession of eyes, that's it...
A southern bunkhouse, blue skies up above,
A kindly figure of feminine grace and wit passes for love, These days...
Passes for love, these days...
Mushhead genius
Passes for love, these days...
Four hundred more years of this shit
(Fuck it)!
I look up I see the North Star, I look up I see the North Star
When I look up at the bar through these tears...
All of America loves to lights his pipes...
All of America live to light his pipe at night...
To which Dixie responds- "Freeeee...
And unlashes his sashes...
Again...
Maybe once the seed is sown ("fast forward" she said)...
"This bird has flown south," she said.
"Don't talk about the south," she said.
It's not you, it's nothing personal,
No hard feelings, nothing's there...
Soft sculpture rides hard on the air...
You got it all...backwards girl...
Enter through the exit and exit through the entrance...
I put the lyrics to this one up recently. Obviously not perfect and need some adjustments. Mostly taken from the lyrics to this song posted on the Destroyer Wiki with some changes to represent what I hear as the lyrics.
Anyways, the song... I cherish each and every Bejar album, but this might be the finest song he's ever put to record. A-ma-zing. Those little traces of melancholy in the horn arrangements, the futility in the lyrics. If feeling suicidal had a sonic representation, this would be it.
Great writeup, and thank you for the lyrics.
Great writeup, and thank you for the lyrics.
This is my favorite track off of the new record.
This is my favorite track off of the new record.
the intro is the absolutely ravishing. my mind wanders to a better place...
First ? = Mushhead genius passes for love these days
The second one is correct. Taken from the linear notes.
Changed the lyrics to what is in the liner notes of the album. So, this one should be done.
holy fuck
holy fuck is correct.
Interview on the origins of the song. Obviously don't read it if you've got your own ideas and want to keep them.
"All of America loves to lights his pipes... All of America live to light his pipe at night..."
talking about toking?
"All that slender-wristed white translucent business Passes for love, these days... Mushhead genius Passes for love, these days..."
I think this stanza/verse is an allusion to oral sex
"Mushhead genius" could be referring to "Superhead" Corrinne Stephens who was in the news a few years ago for exchanging sex in the hiphop community for money and notoriety.
Complete nonsense
You mean, abstract. There is syntax, so there is tons of content in there, not just tone. Is there an overall content, and not just content in individual lines and small collections of lines? Yes. Is it too obscure for me to talk about? Absolutely. Is this bad? No. Could this sort of thing be bad? Yes. Am I sure that this isn't one of the bad versions? Pretty damn sure.
You mean, abstract. There is syntax, so there is tons of content in there, not just tone. Is there an overall content, and not just content in individual lines and small collections of lines? Yes. Is it too obscure for me to talk about? Absolutely. Is this bad? No. Could this sort of thing be bad? Yes. Am I sure that this isn't one of the bad versions? Pretty damn sure.