FAWM: "Vanilla Dome"

Vanilla Dome

Liner Notes

#4track #indiepop #supermarioworld

This one and Cheese Bridge Area (which you can put your ears on here: https://write.fawm.org/songs/312679) are both loosely based on the theme of being named after Super Mario World levels! The songs are otherwise fairly disconnected from the sources, though. I did this once with the title Forest of Illusion to great success, so I figured doing that and the public domain challenge (using "Tiptoe Thru The Tulips" as a source) at the same time could be fun. The guitar came out disappointingly clunky-sounding as a result of both using old strings and the mic I use not really being built for mic-ing acoustics, so I'll probably go back to DI-ed acoustic with the rest of the songs I do this FAWM.

Lyrically it's compiled from a bunch of semi-connected ideas as many of my songs have been, but for this one if I got into detail we'd all be sadder so I'll refrain. Hope you dig it!

Lyrics

His gate was wide open last night
And nothing was stopping her from going inside
The first thing that he ever said
Was ”turn off your mind and join the army of the dead”

It's nice to have someone to be
When your thoughts aren't your own worst enemy
But the barbs on the fence were sharp
And no one fancies deep unintentional harm

The rain leaks upon her head
The wind batters down at the wooden fence
I wouldn't call that house a home
She's safer swimming in the Vanilla Dome

We still see the ghosts way over me
Why can’t you haunt another home and leave me be?
Coughing up where you left in spurts
It’s still too soon to ease the hurt

The rain leaks upon her mind
The sun peeks past her Venetian blinds
I wouldn't call that house a home
She's safer swimming in the Vanilla Dome

And her shaver doesn't shave
'Cause it's loaded with the dullest blades
So will you stay the same
Or fade away?