As promised, below is another song from the unreleased violent joy LP, which I’ve been sharing over the course of the last few months. You can find the tracks I’ve released thus far here.
Before getting into the good stuff, I recently appeared on the Producer Points podcast, which is hosted by my friend Justin Gammella, a very talented producer/songwriter and wonderful guy.
I was honored when he asked me to be on the show and really delighted to receive so many messages saying how much folks enjoyed the conversation. So, if you want to hear us talk about my creative approach, producing music, scoring films, etc., give it a listen.
Now, for regularly scheduled programming…
A song is just a hiding place. Or it can be, at least.
It’s the top shelf of the unfinished room in the back corner of the basement. Stuffed inside a small box inside a bigger box wrapped in an old t-shirt. You can’t throw it away, but you don’t want to look at it. Don’t want to carry it.
This record was filled with those songs. Secrets I had with myself. Whenever you come out the other side, you look back on the bad times with a sense of “How did I not see that?” Or maybe “How did I survive that?” Sometimes a song exists in the purgatory in between those places — the bad place and the good place.
This song was a rotten thought. It was a worst-case scenario, flooding into my brain in a flash but refusing to leave. I remember shaking my head, physically, trying to loosen the image from my subconscious, but it stayed. So, I had no choice. Carry it or put it in a song.
I chose the latter.
Antelope
Talk to me Let the words say what they mean Don’t run from this I wanna be your levee breach Give me grace and let the blood that flows in you Belong to me They’ll tell you that it won’t be long You’ll hang on through the weekend Seethe and flow Too late to pull the alarm Race you to the undertow Crush all of my soulless pride Before you let go, let go I wish you learned to sip before they bottled you You showed me I could slam a door and end a scene Give me patience let the blood that flows in you Belong to me I wanna see you in the light, wide open diamond in the sun. crush one right into the clouds with all the weight of your love.
Antelope (unreleased violent joy)
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Written/produced by violent joy in studios in NY and CA Mixed/mastered by Warren Trunz