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The third single from Perversions, if anybody wants it.
Not much to say about this track. It was written in 2016 during the Mercy Machine sessions, but is largely a rewrite of a track in 2010 that I titled "The Purple Rose of Cairo," which I had not seen at that moment. I placed it on one of my pre-Clicker releases, Squirrel Songs, and I didn't think much of it outside of the occasional "why doesn't this sound as good as my vision of the song in my head?" intruding thought that came upon me back in the day. And then I taught myself how to do multi-track recording...and promptly forgot about this song. And then I revisited it five years ago, gave it a fresh new coat of Undertale-inspired paint (specifically statements Flowey would make to you on a genocide/no-mercy/traditional-RPG run - those regarding coming to as a seemingly immobile flower), thought about how the Mike Sewell McDonald's ad rubbed me the wrong way, and recorded a quick demo. That reminds me - I should compile all the early versions of songs that would later be reworked for Perversions.
And then I relistened to that demo about a year ago and recorded it for Perversions. That's really about it - a song about reincarnation, abuse, being caught in a position that immortalizes and yet dehumanizes you, just something to ease my mind regarding my greatest fear: the fear of dying. I guess you could call this my Phish song. Send this one to the boys, have Trey cut a wicked solo over it.
Have you ever been lonely
Are you here or are you solely
In the landscape as a detail
Between retail, on dusk-dawn prevail
Have you lost your consciousness
Have you drifted in-out on the space
Right to where your spirit ends
And where your expenditure for vessel waits
Between man, flor, faun and thing
You pass them all by, you pass them all by
And white transfer blinding ring
Is this all a lie? Is this all a lie?
Have you spoken through cliché
Did you gain social thoroughway
Or are you contracted through disease
To let it sink into your veins at ease
Square-locked jaw inspirational
From ad to ad your spokesman roams
Bringing in through pneumatic sales
Subliminal suggestions between episodes
Between man, flor, faun and thing
You pass them all by, you pass them all by
And white transfer blinding ring
Is this all a lie? Is this all a lie?
(James Cagney throws the grapefruit in my face)
Between man, flor, faun and thing
You pass them all by, you pass them all by
(Life is a steady stream that’ll come soon, Asriel)
And white transfer blinding ring
Is this all a lie? Is this all a lie?
And then I fall
Through metaphysical walls
Discovering intrinsical
Moments of temporal relevance
The grapefruit lies on cheekbone
Thrown by a man playing wrath-consumed
Zoned by performance, I presume
Between man, flor, faun and thing
You pass them all by, you pass them all by
And white transfer blinding ring
Is this all a lie? Is this all a lie?
(James Cagney throws the grapefruit in my face)
Between man, flor, faun and thing
You pass them all by, you pass them all by
(Life is a steady stream that’ll come soon, Asriel)
And white transfer blinding ring
Is this all a lie? Is this all a lie?
credits
released November 23, 2021
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music by Liebermintz and Charles Kieser
lyrics by Liebermintz
Liebermintz plays guitars, bass, E-bow, drum programming, keyboards, saxophone programming, and lead vocals.
Charles Kieser plays piano, accordion, and recorder.
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