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Psychedelic Nightmare

by Arrow Real

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1.
Oh Melissa Cast your golden crowns upon the sea Cast your golden crowns upon the glassy sea All the ghosts will follow you home (there goes the little soldier) No more seeds left to be sown (there goes the little soldier) Studio Engineer: "That's enough" Arrow: "No, I don't think it is" Congregation: "Josh hates church, oh Josh hates church oh..." (cut off) Engineer: "That's Enough!" (60hz noise) (piano accompaniment playing) Totally-Not-Kermit-the-Frog: "Oh, Hello. (pause) I think I walked into the wrong session. (pause, as if being asked a question) ...No... (pause) ...No, I didn't vote at all, actually... (pause, as if Totally-not-Kermit is being offered a grand reward for singing for this session) ... A WHAT?!... OK!" (T-N-K begins singing) (after a few phrases a strange noise is heard and the music becomes chaotic and ominous) T-N-k: "Hey, what's going on? Where's everybody going? (ad. lib. etc.)
2.
Opium Song 02:16
*Hits opium pipe*
3.
Rehearsal time You won't stay inside Ammunition locks you in Your quiet apartment Signs outside with your open pockets Just like your rhymes In your quiet apartment
4.
Look at the carpet Don't wanna make me spell it out now Don't wanna make it spill out now She's got your number She's got your number She's got your number one Yeah I can't be anything But what you've sanctioned A motherfuckin' Willy Wonka Is something wrong with the phone? Is something wrong with the phone?! I've got your number I've got your SHIT too (lol)
5.
Strong Bat 05:19
*dog howling* fuck. FUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!!! *arf* *laughing* holy shit, that was some motherfuckin' cake, man. man, it was like... it was like... that was some motherfuckin' cake some motherfuckin' cake some motherfuckin' cake, man. man, it was like, it was like... angels fuckin' shitting on my TONGUE! That was really good. Oh shit, it's still recording.
6.
Johnny take a walk to the other side tell me watcha gonna wear to the fire tonight I said a whoah-oh-oh-oh-oh oh (x2) Julie can you take me to the grocery store? we'll get some apples and some lemons and some dead carnivores and they can chew their way through the holes in our god forsaken roles GINA CAN I MEET YA AT THE FUNERAL HOME?! we'll dance the disco with the devil and carry him home inside the bags around our eyes MOLLY LET ME TAKE YOU TO THE MALL TONIGHT we'll build a wall upon the water in the black sunlight and we can kiss under the streetlight where the road is just beginning (excited noises) I think we're alone now, goin' down, doesn't seem to be anyone around TALKIN' TOUGH IN A STATE OF MITOSIS WALKIN' HOME IN THE RAIN SOME SPELLBOUND CREEP GETTING CLOSER APPROACHES I SPREAD MY WINGS AND I'M OFF AGAIN I pledge allegiance to the FAGS of The United States of America who so proudly hailed a cab after they kicked me to the curb after tying the last knot in my neck who never laid beside me in sheets of morning chanting still birds asleep I pledge allegiance to the fag that is LIT whose lipstick turns and quivering tricks make the Lizst's and the Sallieri's turn white with envy I pledge allegiance to the love song going wrong intersexual overdrive love deities of chaos and Mars I pledge allegiance to the tossed - salad schoolgirl omorashi prepared specimen plenty of greens and fruits and the one special butch who went shopping for dolls and anal beads i pledge allegiance to flowers and chicken wings i fear not death for i am FREE

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"I kinda made this album on a dare in two weeks using nothing but audacity and my computer's line in. I didn't sleep much." -Arrow

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released March 11, 2019

Arrow Fitzgibbon: electric and acoustic guitar, MIDI programming, piano and synthesizer, sequencer, field recording, tiny Casio keyboard, vocals, bass guitar, drums, recording, mixing, mastering

Title of record by Sandra Hollister Davis

Samples in "Quiet Apartment" courtesy of freesound.org
Lyrics and title of "Quiet Apartment" by Joshua Samuel Strauss

"Fuck" in "Strong Bat" by Jay Miner of Rust Belt Press
Cake review in "Strong Bat" by Alexandra Zöe Harris ca.2009
Critical appraisal in "Strong Bat" by Jen Janus Sintzel
Field recordings in "Strong Bat" by Gentleman John ca. 2009
Title of "Strong Bat" by Joshua Samuel Strauss

Thanks (in no hierarchical order) to: Riley for use of fuzz pedal, Jen for
computer use, love, and support during the past few weeks, Ballet Ex Machina for commissioning the instrumental in "Red Light Central" Kendall Cage for Logic instruction and laptop use, Jay Miner (Yaj Remin) and Bar Madison (Thunderhead) for online support, Mel Beitel for sequencer donation, Gillian Tunney for extended bass borrowing, Stacey Norred for acoustic guitar donation, Mark Sinsel for electric guitar donation, Potter and Gillian for the fish haus workspace, Jen for the phrase "fish haus," Josh for the provocation of the construction of this album.

"Opium Song" is abstractly based on "Sonata in G - minor Op.23" by Jiri Antonin Benda.

"Strong Bat" is abstractly based on "Drinking Song" by Bela Bartok.

"Pass the Ammunition" is abstractly based on an original arrangement of the gospel song "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" by Arrow Fitzgibbon and, of course, contains a segment of an original arrangement of "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" by Frank Loesser

No frogs (that we know of) were harmed in the making of this album

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Arrow Real Buffalo, New York

Arrow Fitzgibbon (Real) is an artist focusing primarily on music composition and performance. Arrow has built a reputation as an accompanist and composer for dance and theater, working with UB's dance department and several other notable organizations. Arrow also does session work, commissions, and plays in Tines, The Moving Image, and other bands. Art on this page by Jen Daruszka. ... more

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