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0 comments text Every Single Day (a new song!)

This is my song about vampires, dragons, witches, knights, incubi and more… the power of allusion. This song is very fainting couch romantic, which I thought was unusual for me, but it seems to happen every third song I write. The lyrics show how much I played Magic the Gathering as a kid, so that’s a plus. It also shows how much I listened to Sade. I’m really happy with (most) of my vocals. Not bad for one recording session. More as this story develops.

Lyrics (for now):

EVERY SINGLE DAY

V1:
I would meet the sun for you
live a million nights, to give it up for…
I’d let Saint George slay me too
my last breath in fire,
a tribute to the heat of…

V2:
And I’d let them burn me at the stake
For one day without you
I don’t think the world could take
But don’t worry, baby- I’ll be fine,
I’ll come back, if you’d like
just summon me as a ghost
I don’t mind.

C.1:
Every single day I’d give my life for you
(every breath, every step, everything that I do)
And no spell will ever make that untrue
(every move, every beat, babe it’s all pledged to you)
Be there any beast, whether she: big or he: small
I will simply slay them, I will conquer them all-but
If a fellow monster has to take one of us away
I will sacrifice… every single day.

V.3:
Oh yes, I’ve heard of this…
capable of murder with just a kiss, but
You’re the only incubus with a conscience-
well, come closer anyway, baby-
cause honestly, you’re worth it.

C.2:
I would gladly take a silver bullet for you
and I’d give up the full moon for you, baby
disappear into the night, a howl in the grey
don’t hesitate a moment, for me, just get away
You’re stronger than any other creature I know
But if something were to happen to you really I don’t know
If I could go on another way
cause I need you every single…

C.3:
We prove there’s more to life than stories we sing
love’s not only for princesses, not just for kings
every villager we scare off with our laughter
is a tale we tell of the freak show ever after
hopefully we thrive like this for thousands of years
Supernatural yet actually rather sincere
I could chant and cast with you every single day,
all I need is you.

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0 comments text Process Post: Black Fruit* EP Cover
Let me start off by saying that I think this idea may be too intensive an idea for an EP cover and more an album cover down the line, and considering I haven’t even recorded 50% of the songs on the upcoming mini-album, I may be getting ahead of myself. But, ideas are ideas and as an artist, if you don’t get them on paper (or imaginary internet digital paper) they dissapear forever in the pipes and tubes of your mind, and no one wants that.

I really appreciate fine album covers. I hate it when people just slap their face on something and add some lazy design. For me, that type of thing is a placeholder (like my main image) until I do the real thing (see my soundcloud). At least, in those instances, the photography should be stunning or engagingly conceptual.

I really like album covers like Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible, or Nikki Jean’s Pennies in a Jar. My New Years resolution is to be great at everything (it really is) So, if i figure out how to get into reality whats in my head, I’ll only be fufilling my 2012 obligations. So, on to the idea.
1. I’m planning on having one of those like really staged and clinically clean sets (like above) except in mine, I’m sitting at a table in a dining room or kitchen.
2. I’ll be covered in black glitter paint (my face and arms, like above) and I’ll be wearing a yet-to-be-determined shirt and hat (probably black or some bold juicy color) and im cutting into the reddest fruit with the darkest skin I can find.
3. The mood will be something colorful and beautiful, yet slightly off putting and askew. (like above)
So that’s my idea. And in September or October or what have you when I finally get to a point with my EP where I say (I’m done!) I can start on this. October Joe will thank April Joe, I’m sure.
*As for the significance of this album title? People who know me can figure it out. :-D
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