OK.. It's been a while but we've had our first gig to practice for with another coming up - 8pm at Mr Wolf's on 3rd July if anyone happens to be in Bristol and fancies popping in
, plus new songs to write. Excuses, excuses. So here's one of our many new ones. Over to Gaby:
'I woke up one day with a vivid image from my dream that stuck with me until I exorcised it in a song... The vision of a naked, defiled woman's body lying in a stark snowy landscape, her bright blood melting a red river into the whiteness, set me off into telling a melodramatic, metaphor-heavy narrative of a love affair gone wrong.'
Back to me. Gaby came over to mine one Saturday once the song had been written and played at a few open mics and we did a 'live' Cubase studio recording of the vocals and guitar. I had a work trip to Minneapolis the next day so I copied it onto my laptop and recorded/sequenced pretty much everything else on the flight over there (a few weird looks when it came to playing drums on the qwerty keyboard). Got into the motel room, saved an mp3 and pinged it back to Gaby for comments. A bit of back and forth tweaking via email over the next few days, the addition of some backing vocals on my return and there it was.
Hope you all enjoy it. Sorry for the gratuitous gig plug.
https://soundcloud.com/zendiummoon/red-riverRed RiverCome to me,
Lying naked in the snow.
Come, tear out my heart,
rip though my bones,
And then just go.
Blood steams forth,
Melts a river as it flows.
An expression of life, leaving me-
Last traces taint the....
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
Left for dead,
Time’s run out.
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
Left for dead,
Time’s run out.
White corpse lying,
Naked in the snow.
Ribs splintered, soul shattered,
The cold wind blow.
Last breath breathed out
Nobody will know.
You killed what you came for
Shed your footprints in the...
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
Left for dead,
Time’s run out.
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
Left for dead,
Time’s run out.
You took my heart,
Shook my heart,
I let you shake it,
I couldn’t take it anymore.
You stoked my heart,
Broke my heart.
I let you break me,
And then take me in the...
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
Left for dead,
Time’s run out.
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
You left me for dead,
Let my light burn out.
Snow stained red
Heart poured out
You left me for dead
Let my light burn out
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
Left for dead,
Time’s run out.
Snow stained red,
Heart poured out,
You left me for dead,
Let my light burn out.