Solo

6 hours ago by @brisk

Liner Notes

#Sex, #death, partnership, vaguely #incestuous and/or #masterbatory overtones.

This is probably my favourite song so far this FAWM, but then every song is my favourite song when I finish it. I'm heavily endebted to Radiohead's House of Cards and Sufjan Stevens' Videogames here, and I'm accepting of the possibility that anything that's good about them may be borrowed wholesale from the original.

I couldn't play the main guitar part sufficiently well so there's a lot of stretching, cutting, prinking etc... and that's just the verse. The chorus I didn't even attempt the guitar, because I approached writing it by taking the verse part and cutting, pasting, shifting and pitch-shifting until I liked it.

I tried doing those two low notes in the bridge with pitch shifting as I can't reach that low F very convincingly, but then I decided to keep me straining as I thought it sounded ... I don't know, more in keeping.

I know I do false endings on just about every song to the point that it diminishes the impact somewhat, but I like this one and it seemed thematically in line (and a bit funny - that's the sound of a man REALLY running out of air).

#indiepop

Lyrics

Hold me in your hand
Pass me to a runner
Life's a relay where
You take it from your mother

I'm your lonely man
your lonely little brother
So press me to your thigh
like I am a cuban cigar

I won't wear a halo
If I have to do this solo

Roll me round your tongue
Like a hungry tiger
Bit between its teeth
Then he swallows up inside her

I won't wear a halo
If I have to do this solo
I won't wear a halo
If I have to do this solo

Our time is all time
So take time to sing
This time is our time
So let time take wing-

Grip me in your hand
Grip me like a rudder
Coming up for air
Down in Davey Jones's Locker

Hide me in your fist
Till I start to smother
I'm a little lamb
with a lifetime to discover

I won't wear a halo
If I have to do this solo
I won't wear a halo
If I have to do this solo

Halo

[dies]

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