hen party

2 weeks ago by @burrMod · @lyricslinger

hen party

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Liner Notes

i'm blowing out the cobwebs by catching up on collabs my overloaded 2024 self wasn't able to follow through on during last summer's 5090 challenge.

🚨 silly alert 🚨

i got the following #PostcardChallenge postcard from simon aka @lyricslinger last summer, but never got around writing anything. until now

in case you don't know, a "hen party" in the british isles is what we'd call a "bachelorette party" here in the USA. so i decided to imagine the scene both literally and figuratively (mixing in bits of simon's imagery from the message)?

started with the #Trap and #Disco beats on my #Omnichord on a #Cassette #4Track and went from there. vox through a zoom V3 vocal processor for that hard #Autotune sound. overdubbed live #Drums on the chorus and... #Theremin solo in the #MajorMinor bridge? why not!?

Lyrics

fourteen hens in a row
in front of a farmhouse, sweet and low
rain barrels set by the window
take a tranquil trail or a winding road
to the mountains, where they hum, and the air is still
you almost forgot the hen on the hill

it’s a hen party
underneath the evening sky
the ladies strut their stuff as the clouds roll by
a postcard from the past
a fever dream in a frame
a picture of nowhere and everywhere all the same

oh the bride is laughing
and the other birds too
with feathers flapping like confetti
in the gravel, too
a rickety chair for a throne, a farmyard disco
with the whitewash stucco, this flock is ready to go

it’s a hen party
underneath the evening sky
the ladies strut their stuff as the clouds roll by
a postcard from the past
a fever dream in a frame
a picture perfect party and we’re so glad you came

it’s rural, it’s quiet, but it's all so strange,
where the landscape bends and the seasons change
the seasons change

fourteen hens in a row
in front of a farmhouse, sweet and low
rain barrels set by the window
take a tranquil trail or a winding road

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