Smoldering Glances: Recent Episodes
Butthedd Studios Presents
Butthedd Studios Presents features the music of the in-house studio band, Smoldering Glances, an ensemble of mutants, Belters, and various Outer System space trash. You can find Smoldering Glances playing live gigs at the Atomjack Saloon on Titan in the Saturn system most weekends, playing for beer and oxygen chits from the house.
A few years ago I built a kithara lyre. This is a recording of the first test of that lyre.
I'm living in a lonely little paradise By myself, but things here sure are nice Games and music and cinema but it's all single-player You're having plenty of fun, but you're the only one there
Oh, it's a lonely little paradise It's a lonely little paradise, but it's sure nice It's a lonely little paradise It's a lonely little paradise, but it's sure nice
My paradise has room for two, and I'd like to share it all with you So why don't we see what we can see, I'd love it if you could come along with me
Oh, and make a little paradise for two And make a little paradise for two I think it would be nice to do Make a little paradise for two
I hereby release this recording of an original performance of a public domain work of literature into the public domain.
I'm sorry So sorry I could have been so much better than I am
I'm sorry So sorry I could have been an extraordinary man
I'm sorry So sorry You did your best when you were dealt a bad hand
I don't know quite how to explain I've always been this way I've always been more than half insane Living from day to day
But you know that the the fires inside will just keep on burning No cold winds can put out that flame The dark thoughts that keep returning The ones that try to tell me you're to blame
I really love you I hope you love you too I really love you I hope you love you too I really love you I hope you love you too
I don't want your chicken hate keep your baggage off my plate I don't want no damn milkshake that tastes like peaches and heartache
I don't want to rain on your celebration But Wednesday I won't show my appreciation For all the ways you impose superstition I don't hate you, I hate your disposition
Keep your own damn waffle fries smelling so badly of your lies Don't you know that families come in every color, shape, and size?
I don't want to rain on your celebration But Wednesday I won't show my appreciation For all the ways you impose superstition I don't hate you, I hate your disposition
I don't care if it's got a pickle a bigot like you don't deserve my nickel why you want to keep some lovers down keep your chicken hate out of my town
This brain this brain this brain is all full of confusion This brain this brain this brain labors under delusion This brain this brain this brain is making some big plans This brain this brain this brain I'm afraid is a madman's
Every time I think about your face you're illuminated by the stars looking all the way out into space planning out you your honeymoon on Mars
This brain this brain this brain is all filled with feeling This brain this brain this brain it finds you really appealing This brain this brain this brain is gonna burn out in the end This brain this brain this brain is gonna break before it bends
Every time I hold you close to me I am freaking out so much inside and our feelings hold such potency on this scary roller coaster ride
This brain this brain this brain it used to be so smart This brain this brain this brain is breaking all apart This brain this brain this brain is get-ting on my nerves This brain this brain this brain is plotting out some curves
This brain, oh yeah this brain
And So It Goes
He's always pushed that button, and he always will The moment is structured that way Only on Earth do they talk of Free Will They live their lives from day to day
It's all just a string of beautiful moments the way we experience our lives I'd like for all of you to hold your comments until the laserbeam arrives
Are you mating yet? And will you be mating soon? Are you mating, in a dome, out there on a faraway moon? Unstuck in time, are you still spending time in the War? "And so it goes," is what we say on Tralfamadore
Controlling history's like controlling weather Stopping war's like holding back the tide Gotta string those moments beautiful together In the Fourth Dimension we abide
He's always pushed that button, and he always will The moment is structured that way Only on Earth do they ever talk of Free Will They live their lives from day to day
Are you mating yet? And will you be mating soon? Are you mating, in a dome, out there on a faraway moon? Unstuck in time, are you still spending time in the War? "And so it goes," is what we say on Tralfamadore
This is a remix based on feedback I received from my local songwriting group after I showcased the original draft at a recent meeting.
Lyrics:
I Died
I died Just yesterday and the sky it turned all gray
I died Just tomorrow people cried in abject sorrow
I died Just 'other week Lord I pray my soul you keep
I died in your doorway That's OK You had it your way
You lived, now you carry on Remember, aim for the head Don't mourn me, I'm already gone I'm now one of the Living Dead
I died then I arose the earth was staining my clothes
I died Just this morning No one gave me a warning
I died Little while back Butterfly with wings of black
I died I'm moving on Don't look now I'm already gone
You lived, now you carry on Remember, aim for the head Don't mourn me, I'm already gone I'm now one of the Living Dead
Francis the Talking Energy Cloud played the Atomjack Saloon one night and dropped this Spoken Word piece in-between songs. His voice and his accompaniment both come from a large pile of obsolete magnetic loudspeakers dumped rather haphazardly onto the stage, and Francis simply applies his own magnetic fields to the speaker coils directly.
Free falling in a Hohmann transfer orbit Been out here a long time in this stinking can Faint blue light from home drifts here in one minute Then you call me while I run a routine scan
You tell me that it's lonely there at home And I can sympathize, believe you me You say you met someone from Tycho Dome You'll move together to Tranquility
A minute past the moment your words come through A minute past the moment it all sinks in A minute past the moment I'm signing off A minute past the moment over and out
We're a full year out from Phobos Station I think there's too much starlight in my eye There won't be a welcome home celebration I guess that's just the price I pay to fly
Our orbits took us far too far apart The Inverse-Square Law in this case applies Your gravity's still pulling on my heart Remembering the Earthlight in your eyes
When you left last June you were my pal but since you got home you're a femme fatale Now you might think you're a movie star but we both know now just who you are
You've got the same brain makes me go in- sane shame! 'cause you just ain't no damn movie star
You have always made my heartbeat miss ever since we shared that clumsy kiss We were two kids playing in the dark underneath the playset at the park
You've got the same brain makes me go in- sane shame! we were only two kids in the dark
Now you're back I know just what comes next you're gonna send me a hot sexy text I will R O F L L O L and then I'll drive there as fast as hell
You've got the same brain makes me go in- sane shame! and I'll come to you as fast as hell
I let me down Idon't know what is wrong with me just watch me drown in my mediocrity I am a fool who'll fuck up with half a chance a disaster a toxic waste avalanche
It's no trick this that is for sure I am the sickness and you're my cure ground my static light up my dark feel erratic going berserk
I am a shit in the toilet bowl of life a breechfire bullet a rusted broken knife I'm a crack at the bottom of the dam a heart attack a raging fire's what I am
It's no trick this that is for sure I am the sickness and you're my cure ground my static light up my dark feel erratic going berserk
Promise breaker I let everybody down great big faker I'm a not-so-funny clown emotion blackmail I will suck the life from you if you set sail I just don't know what I will do
It's no trick this that is for sure I am the sickness and you're my cure ground my static light up my dark feel erratic going berserk feel erratic going berserk feel erratic going berserk