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You know what it's like. Lunchtime at the office and it is a slow online news day so you write an Americana song you will never perform for the album you are not making with a band only in your mind.
I had intended this to be purely a time wasting device and a song that no one would ever hear. Not just because it will never be recorded but because I wanted it to be an album "Filler".
That track which automatically is FForwarded or skipped. It's sole reason and purpose, to fill out the song numbers on the back of the CD case. Occassionally, these tracks serve the added function of padding out the running time of an album. I call those tracks - "Underhand"
Album filler tracks are not ever designed to be listened to out of choice so usually contain throwaway lyrics (if at all - band instrumentals are the worst), more experimental sounds and a genaral feeling that we have entered into a mutual contract wherby the band won't play it at a gig so we don't need to listen to it enough times to work out which bits to move in unison to.
Clearly little time is spent bothering with them in the studio. This is in order, the fan hopes, to make the other tracks better and not to open more opportunity for group drug abuse.
Almost all albums have these filler tracks. Except for Best of's... and Now! That's what's, naturally.
Even some of the most popular albums ever produced have them. Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory? Hey Now. Radiohead's OK Computer? FITTER HAPPIER.
In fact, here is FITTER HAPPIER. Feel free to scroll passed it to the rest of the blog. It is exactly what Radiohead would want you to do.
So, under this light, I felt a 15 minute run at making up a song over a lunchtime apple and mango smoothie would be ideal conditions to create my "filler" track.
My plans soon crumbled, however, when my good friend @jaffne said she liked it so much I had to publish the lyrics onto my Blog. I am not one to argue and so this is where we find ourselves.
Of course, I am not certain if this then makes this here's entire bloggette essentially a filler and, if so, I am then even less certain how I should be feeling about it. After all, I hadn't planned on anyone wanting to hear the song all the way to the end, let alone once - but I do hope people enjoy reading my blogs to their conclusion. It is mixed emotions, therefore, in posting this.
If I was a HAL9000, I'd be shunting folks out evacuation hatches like there was no tomorrow right now.
Anyway, here is my latest song for the album that does not exist.
-TRACK 5-
Every girl is a fairytale
But you’re hard to read
You wear hurt as gems of adornment
Eyes searching for shore on a sea of torment
Your flattery deceives
Oh – oh – oh
You have a cloak to hide a dagger
You hide a frown behind the laughter
You short out the Sun with your dark matter
Oh – oh – oh
Eat the apple, Snow White
You will be alright
I want to be the one who kisses you awake
The guilt and the pleasure
Without one the other cannot measure
Keep both as close as stolen treasure
Oh – oh – oh
Eat the apple, Snow White
You will be alright
I want to be the one who kisses you awake
The mirror on the wall
I don’t think it knows you at all
When it reflects on your beauty and grace
It’s blinded from your horror by your fair face
Your lips betray your words
Oh – oh – oh
From the tower let your hair down
From the cage lay the bone down
From the castle shoot the king down
Oh – oh – oh
Eat the apple, Snow White
You will be alright
I want to be the one who kisses you awake
The girl who burns the vowels out of my lore
You are the wolf who howls at my door
My darling fairytale wh**e
Oh – oh – oh
Eat the apple, Snow White
You will be alright
I want to be the one who kisses you awake
