So I love the new songs. Quite a bit. Enough that I would definitely like to read the lyrics so that I might have a more elaborate picture of the story unfolding in front of me. Thoughts?
Just went ahead and did it now. Here you go: All Is Well (It's Only Blood) all is well now pay no mind all is well now I'm just fine I'm just fine it's only blood; I have plenty left it's only blood; I just need to rest I said I'd fix this that I’d set things straight you begged me not to but I couldn't stay couldn't wait they cut me up, but I did them worse and I'll be fine, I just need to rest all is well now all is well now all is well now all is well now All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye) it's hard to keep the rainclouds out when the windows never close the house feels like a graveyard now like the floorboards hide the bones and I have lost your face it slips between my fingers now and all the world is gray as though you took the colors with you when you went and passed away I remember how the bedroom looked when you left to see your lord the sheets were a mess and your clothes were all wrecked in a pile by the door and though my blood runs the same as it did before only difference is now I barely feel it anymore so I collected all our plans and crimes and set them all alight the only thing that bound me to this place you took with you when you died so goodbye, goodbye We're On Our Way show your hands if you need a new coat of paint if your bones are now heavy things like anchors hidden somewhere 'neath your skin or if your head's just an empty box if your heart has become spare parts if your days are now just something you must bear well, oh, it seems you're a lot like me you dug yourself into places you never thought you would be but don't you fret, and don't you mind the only constant is change and you never know what you'll find yeah, tomorrow I might wake up nice and clean and I might believe the things I said I didn't mean and this might turn and wind up just the way we'd dreamed and I might become the things I swore I'd always be well, we're always on our way we're on our way well, we're always on our way we're on our way well, we're always on our way we're on our way well, we're always on our way we're on our way ---------------------------------------------------- And for some general info: All Is Well is from the point of view of a man (Jonathan Northcoat is the actual character name, if you wanna get detailed) as he's bleeding out in the bedroom. The fuzzy sounds were supposed to be the equivalent of his blurring vision as he's trying to reassure his fiance that he's fine, whom he had run away with. The second part (goodbye, goodbye) is from the point of view of the fiance dealing with the aftermath once he passes. In the end she burns the house down and leaves. I think the rest is pretty easy to pick up from the lyrics.
Goodbye, Goodbye is such a good set of lyrics, its so painful and beautiful..i listen to it on loop for hours haha
Yeah, this new record is kind of a sad one. Not so much musically, but as far as subject matter goes. I can imagine it not being very appealing to some folks as a result. Hahaha.
The stories you're writing are fascinating, Ben. Not much of a pick-up (although the music sounds like it) but for some reason it's all still beautiful, even in its simplicity. Any chance you could write up on On Our Way?
you're music has always had a haunted theme to it. with this album its more straight-forward though and i dont think that will hurt you at all. the music sounds great, the lyrics are great. i cant see anyone deciding to stop listening to you because of something so silly. its good material and thats what counts haha
With a lot of your albums being "concept" albums, I became really curious as to what the self titled and The Violent Blue Electric President albums were about. I found this interview (http://www.webcitation.org/query?ur...erview/elecpres.html&date=2009-10-26 00:01:50) and I found the part about Snow on Dead Neighbors really interesting, but made me wonder whether that is the "story" of the whole album, seeing as a lot of the lyrics are at least semi-ambiguous, or enough to be put into that context. And for The Violent Blue, is that just sort of a love letter to the ocean, or is it something more?
Well, one way I kinda divide the projects is this: Radical Face focuses on the past and Electric President focuses on the future. The first Electric President record was painting different futures. Some personal and potentially immediate -- Good Morning, Hypocrite and Insomnia for examples. Insomnia was something I wrote when I couldn't sleep, and I was sitting out in my shed (lightbulb dangling from string) watching the news (I sit and watch the screen for a message) and having a generally shitty night. Others are distant and more fantastic (Some Crap About the Future, Metal Fingers, Farewell). Some songs revolve around a brother and his half-robot sister (Hum, Snow on Dead Neighborhoods, Farewell). Sleep Well was nightmare record. The Violent Blue I wrote all the words sitting on the shore in a moleskine notebook. It's still future based, but the setting was the theme that tied it together. There's definitely meanings to the songs themselves, but not many are connected.
I'd love to have the lyrics for Severus and Stone if anyone out there has them. There are some crucial lines I'm missing. Beautiful, beautiful song.
all the trees stood like skeletons silhouettes of spilled ink and the snows fell in sheets and got wrapped around our feet we built the fire evermore with winter beating at the door brother's eyes were getting heavier his bony hands cold and white and I could hear his ragged breathing like the wind along a knife there beside him through the night, in the hum of candlelight I no longer felt the time brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head his feet didn't touch the ground I could feel it then a tiny miracle so I followed him into the woods crossed beneath the trees but only I left my prints in tow he was afloat found a lonely tree and tied himself within its limbs and he said to me these words: “Don't you fear for me, I am where I'm supposed to be.” and when I woke he was gone and I was wrapped in blankets on the lawn the sky was blue and my skin matched the hue and I could hear mother crying in your room from here on out I wear this face for both of us
I'm about to post the lyrics for the whole record once I finish this "lyric" section on the website. But here's a pdf of all the words from the record: http://radicalface.com/lyrics/thefamilytree_theroots.pdf
Fantastic! Thank you. Going to print this out, make a pot of tea and get the album on Do you think you can include a nice printed booklet of lyrics on the Vinyl version? Or is it too late for that? Edit: ah I see from the other thread that the lyrics are included with the CD package which I should be expecting soon
I've been listening to the new album like crazy, and I've added Bishop's song into the mix when I listen to Roots (even if it's not following the same family of tracks) However, my heart weeps for that song, like so many others. I've been unable to find any trace of Lyrical postings for that song and was wondering if I can get some direction, or even it posted. That song for the strangest of reason, is so vividly played before my eyes when I hear that song. *sniffles*
Thanks for posting the lyrics Ben! And I'll take this time to also thank for making an album thats worth sitting down and actually listening all the way through. I hadn't done that since I was a teen, with Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memomry. Like 10 years later I found Ghost and now Roots, amazing, thanks.
