FAWM: "All Hail the God-King!"

All Hail the God-King!

6 days ago by @sailingmagpie

All Hail the God-King!

sailingmagpie

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Liner Notes

Bit of an outlier for me, as this is a genre I've literally never done before!

I've been working on this one for over a week off and on (listening to it on repeat counts as working on it, right?). I feel like it still needs more parts, as the arrangement is a bit samey but I suppose that's kinda what dub reggae is like!

#dub #reggae

Lyrics

All we have are memories
Of the memories we once had
When the clowns run the circus
Pontification ain't so bad

So all hail the God-King
His macho deportment belies
All that pent up poison
Simmering behind his eyes

The melody sings
The malady brings me down
The melody sings
He's taking flesh by the pound

He wants an eye for an eye
But we both know he won't stop there
Overcome your common senses
Til you're bereft beyond repair

The melody sings
The malady brings me down
The melody sings
He's taking flesh by the pound

Comments

@balancelost 5d

You pretty much nailed the genre in the first couple of bars. I get strong Gorillaz vibes from this tune, y'know, that middle aged white dude trying dub angle. Which reminds me that I found out the hilarious secret behind "Clint Eastwood" the other day, but I'll save that for another time. Something tells me this song isn't about Dune. It does continue your form of nice sounding guitars this year though, different tone to this take but cool sound nonetheless.

@oddbod 5d

This has the feel of a dirge - not in the boring/tedious sense but as in a funeral song. Is all dub reggae regardless? This doesn’t seem like reggae but it certainly has all the dub elements. I’ll stop typing now.

@vomvorton 6d

Nicely done. I have a fondness for dub reggae / indie-rock crossover stuff because The Boo Radleys were my first proper favourite band and they do a lot of dubby stuff on Giant Steps. Really like the melody / malady stuff in the lyrics!