Thursday, September 26, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019
You Catch Your Plank Above
In this song, the girl is really depressed, and there's all this depressing imagery and stuff. She's in a bad way. She's in so much of a bad way, that the angels are really concerned about her and realize they gotta move fast if they want her to retain any teeny tiny fragment of mental well-being. (See below if you're unfamiliar with this project).
When I got the hook of this song from a dream, the lyrics didn't make sense to me at first; but, then, I realized, oh, wait, these lyrics are about what it would be like to be on fire (or to be an actual fire) and accidentally catch an upper floor of a building on fire.
See, when the dream-song came to me, I'd just watched a show where a house burns down in it. Like, in this song, the girl is so depressed that she feels like a fire catching everything on fire. And she sees holes as being everywhere, including inside herself.
Actually, that hole-thing, that applies to a lot of us in this day and age. I think most of us are empty, full of holes, with nothing to fill them in. That's because our world is really fucked up, and as such, it fills us with holes.
Weird plank above
Here's last week's song, if you play it backwards.
The lyrics are:
Here's last week's song, if you play it backwards.
The lyrics are:
Oh, fuck, I don’t know what to think of
You catch your plank above
All the things that sting the silent doves
You catch your plank above
Everything is inside of the hole that opened up in there
It’s everywhere, it’s everywhere, it’s everywhere, it’s
everywhere
And I do not know that thing called love
You catch your plank above
Does it sing on wings of silent doves
You catch your plank above
Everything is inside of the hole that opened up in there
It’s everywhere, it’s everywhere, it’s everywhere, it’s
everywhere
And I think
we have some cause for concern
We’d better
go and find her now before she gets burned
She is
beginning to sound like she is depressed
Sitting in
the middle of a steaming screaming mess
One
day, I started writing a song about a fucked up school. Then, a few days later,
that lawsuit came out, involving those pervy professors in the Dartmouth
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. I was all, oh, my stars!!!
That’s where I got my Ph.D.! Then
I finished writing the song about a week later. I thought it was just a song
about how the school system fucks up kids, but after I finished writing and
recording it, I realized parts of it were about my experiences in that poopy
psych department (the unconscious mind works in mysterious ways). In any event,
I decided to write an album about a fucked up school in order to process my
experiences of having been in that department and how the culture there
impacted me. This album ain’t necessarily about Dartmouth, per se. It’s more of a weird,
inner exploration where I’m, like, having a fucked up dialogue with my
unconscious about my experiences at Dartmouth. Jung used to call that kind of
stuff “active imagination.” So far, this album follows the story of a girl,
whose guardian angels try to protect her, but often can't find her. The angels
at some point decide that they have to protect the girl from those nasty
teachers and start to plot against them. But then they realize they don’t want
to actually harm the teachers, so they, instead, make the teachers’ brains into
nature brains ™, which are basically brains that hear communications coming
from nature spirits. The angels do this because they think it’ll give those
teachers more empathy, and will, in turn, be nice to the students.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Backwards Song With a Plank in the Forwards Version of It
BACPLANK
Here's the backwards version of next week's song. It's another one of those sacred-sounding, liturgical-sounding backwards songs, so I put the 2 angels on top of a church to illustrate the extra-special sacred-liturgical soundingness of the song.
Next week, you'll get to find out there's a plank, or something at least plank-like in the forwards version of it.
Here's the backwards version of next week's song. It's another one of those sacred-sounding, liturgical-sounding backwards songs, so I put the 2 angels on top of a church to illustrate the extra-special sacred-liturgical soundingness of the song.
Next week, you'll get to find out there's a plank, or something at least plank-like in the forwards version of it.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
I'm Always Messing Up Again
This song is about the girl berating herself for messing up on things. She got a bad grade on a test. The angels, who are the low, grandpa voices in the song, are wishing they could communicate with her so they could reassure her and tell her she's alright. (See below if you're new to this project).
The lyrics are:
It makes me
sad again/ I’m always messing again
I did bad on
the test again / I’m always messing up again
We wish we
could tell her that it will be alright
Singing songs of darkness in the middle of the
nightOne day, I started writing a song about a fucked up school. Then, a few days later, that lawsuit came out, involving those pervy professors in the Dartmouth Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. I was all, oh, my stars!!! That’s where I got my Ph.D.! Then I finished writing the song about a week later. I thought it was just a song about how the school system fucks up kids, but after I finished writing and recording it, I realized parts of it were about my experiences in that poopy psych department (the unconscious mind works in mysterious ways). In any event, I decided to write an album about a fucked up school in order to process my experiences of having been in that department and how the culture there impacted me. This album ain’t necessarily about Dartmouth, per se. It’s more of a weird, inner exploration where I’m, like, having a fucked up dialogue with my unconscious about my experiences at Dartmouth. Jung used to call that kind of stuff “active imagination.” So far, this album follows the story of a girl, whose guardian angels try to protect her, but often can't find her. The angels at some point decide that they have to protect the girl from those nasty teachers and start to plot against them. But then they realize they don’t want to actually harm the teachers, so they, instead, make the teachers’ brains into nature brains ™, which are basically brains that hear communications coming from nature spirits. The angels do this because they think it’ll give those teachers more empathy, and will, in turn, be nice to the students.
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