For the first time in a long while I am in a band where the singer is happy for me to have a go at writing song lyrics. Singers are usually quite precious about this as they want to feel emotionally connected to the words they are singing to add conviction to their performance, however Pavel’s first language is Polish so he says he tends to feel quite distanced from lyrics in English anyway. So I here I am having a pop at producing odd imagery to his vocal melodies.
I’ve taken the vocal melody from the jam above and drawn upon the Cyborg Manifesto and come up with:
“Children with baboon hearts dream
Of cloning sheep
mice grow ears from their back
the boundaries between me
and the machine
seem soluble and oh so slack
moments of frozen theory
elide and crack
so raise three eyebrows to the perverse
all that is natural
melts into air
we spit and curse, transmit and disperse
I am a creation
Of infinity
A sunlight product of databanks
no more salvation
through affinity
as I am built genders collapse”
Band practice is tomorrow night so we’ll see if it meets the group’s approval.