FAWM: "Parasites & Flies"

Parasites & Flies

1 week ago by @brisk

Liner Notes

I'm a bit lukewarm on this one, but it has been hanging around a few days and isn't going to improve like a fine wine or cheese or anything, so why not stick it up? Note that I wouldn't have any idea how to play this live - although the guitar is real (because it is out of tune and badly played)*, I had to pitch shift the chorus to make it work, and there's a gratuitous key change towards the end I think that I'd find hard to replicate in real life as I'm not good enough.

I was pleased with that altered chord in the final chorus, is that fun or just hackneyed?

#slow #slight-air-of-menace #superficial-or-plain-incoherent-political-comment

* actually no, I doubled it with a fake acoustic guitar to give it more welly, so this isn't quite true.

Lyrics

The cockroach of Versailles
The Lambeth Palace flies

Gonna hold a mirror up to England
When we're done
Gonna hold a mirror up to England
For the sun

Comments

@thedutchwidows 1w

Your hashtag game is strong! If you start with a hashtag that strong, your song has a lot to live up to, and this totally does. A really nice meandering feel, but with a strong undercurrent to it (the hashtagged 'slight air of menance') - vocals are really good. Lovely feel all round. I'm a very satisfied customer.

@coolparadisoMod 1w

They sometimes things improve in the air of the world! This must be one of them or I have different ears. Oh I like the edge of incoherent! I get to make it up! Which I did! I like the pacing and slow rolled out style. This is really good

@richaaaay 1w

Love the guitar and some of these lines are absolute winners. The Kremlin's tapeworm smiles; The White House flea beguiles...Who comes up with lines like those? Then the farty synths...of course DT pointed out we all were all thinking. Hilarious...Great vocals and harmonies...Really wish I could do that...

@jsini 1w

Smooth! Calmly disturbing to me and highly creative and interesting. Happy I listened!

@anthonykapfer 1w

oh man! i was digging this before the key change but that was really the icing on the cake. i don’t know how you can be lukewarm on a piece of music this good! your vocals sound excellent. great work

@jerrypettit 1w

I agree with @billwhite51 -- this is just lovely, and your vocals are AMAZING!! ❤️

@davidtaro 1w

That’s one hell of a gorgeous chorus melody (the “this love is stronger” bit), and the staccato “hold a mirror up” lines are pretty darn great too. Love the farty synth sounds that come in at about 1.56. And who doesn’t yearn for a gratuitous key change, nicely done.