"Girl on Fire" by Chick Quest from their 2015 debut album "Vs. Galore".

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https://chickquest.bandcamp.com/album/vs-galore

Girl on fire make my heart skip beats just like a stone
Girl on fire make my heart skip beats just like a stone
Obedient to chaos scared to pieces at the thought of left alone
Girl on fire like an old friend that's lost and gone for good
Girl on fire like a fantasy that's lost and gone for good

Girl made of metal, made of makeup, made of norms
Slip out the back door (somehow), girl confused and tangled like a storm
You see it now, you see it now, and then it's gone for good
You see her now, you see her now, and then she's gone for good
But the look, the feel— the girl was never really there at all.

Vs. Galore

Girl on Fire

Girl On Fire

Exit Strategy
Music and lyrics by Ryan White (BMI)

Help me
I’m stuck inside this airport
My friends are ghosts

Sundays
Bones grinding slowly to a halt
Job’s a mess

Traffic
There's lightning caught inside this jar
No escape from the doom

The girl in the magazine has it all.
Beaches and French cuisine, vomit sprawl.
We wish you all the luck on your journey.

Meanwhile
A feeling something’s gone awry
Self esteem dream

No time
The city breathes another sigh
Letting go

Cornered
I’ve been living like wallpaper
Things have changed for the strange

The girl in the magazine has it all.
I’m sorry if this is mean: won’t miss you all.
We wish you all the luck on your journey.
Have a nice day.

Model View Controller

Exit Strategy

Savant Garde
Music and lyrics by Ryan White (BMI)

How many brain cells?  Don’t need to think about it.
The perfect galaxy?  Don’t need to think about it.
Most vivid color?  Don’t need to think about it.
I’ll write a think piece!  Don’t need to think about it.

I’m gonna check you out.
I’m gonna check you out.
I’m gonna check you out.
I’m wanna check you out out out out alright.

The king has spoken: everything that you're doing is wrong
Don’t feel the notion of emotion that is there in the song
Your UV needle zigzag noise marathon
Ain't at the forefront of cool junk that I’ve hit upon
The hypocritics come out, don’t need to think about it
Your punk offends me somehow, don't need to think about it
Circle jerk scene appends all the trends and then
Pretends to know their value even though the value offends.

How many major chords?  Don’t need to think about it.
Rows in my database?  Don’t need to think about it.
What’s in a masterpiece?  Don’t need to think about it.
I’ll square the circle!  Don’t need to think about it.

Savant Garde

Identity Crisis in the Grocery Store
Music and lyrics by Ryan White (BMI)

A myriad of thoughts go rummaging through my brain
Saying “What are you doing? What are you doing?”
I’m tired of being so nice when the norms don’t do the same.
What am I doing? What am I doing?
The feelings in my heart are trying to move my legs
But get tangled every time and just end up in my head.
Hey Miss, you alright? Hey girl you alright?
Then what are you doing? What are you doing?
Dramatic pause.
Spotlighting.
Produce aisle.
I asked you a question.

“I’m. Trying. To walk. Right out the door.”

I can be the man that holds your pretty little hand
They’ll say, “What are you doing?? What do you think you’re doing??
You’re just a stupid girl who’s confused, don’t understand.
So then what are you doing??  What are you doing??”
Hesitant pause.
Empty stare.
Cereal aisle.
Is anyone in there?

Gone... right out the door.

Identity Crisis in the Grocery Store

Down in a Crypt
Music and lyrics by Ryan White (BMI)

Down in a crypt my life depicts
All the gloom and macabre in a Karloff flick.
The gray malaise has spent all its days
And now it’s time for something that will raze this phase.

Down in a crypt my love gets stripped
Under the sex and the ground where the rhythm’s kept.
The raw, untamed, incandescent profane
Lose control of their soul in this arcane domain.

Down in the shit, the nit and the grit
Where moving like a human means you dance a bit,
The epidermis sweats and the heart’s divine
While shaking to a Belgrade bomb in common time.

Cyrillic skeleton dance
Cyrillic skeleton trance
I cannot speak your language but I know know know that I’m home.

Down in a Crypt

The Afterlife
Music and lyrics by Ryan White (BMI)

Meanwhile...

The lady on the TV's singing how much she loves him as if she means it
Dramatic slow-mo Turkish guy is clenching his fists to show he feels it
Everything's emotional and serious
Everything's emotional and serious
You buy what you eye and try to model your style off the afterlife.

I’m only gonna dance if I have heard of this song because I can’t feel it
I’m only gonna dance if I have heard of this song because I can’t feel it
Give them all an anthem to believe in
Give them all an anthem to believe in
The repetitious Sisyphus is looping the hits in the afterlife.

I’m looking around, I'm thinking about it
I’m breaking it down, I’m waiting for cues
They’re dancing around, I’m thinking about it
Stop… ok!

Here’s another four dudes in a rawk band
Here’s another love song for your right hand
The repetitious Sisyphus is looping the hits in the afterlife.

I’m only gonna dance if I’ve heard of this song before.
I’m only gonna dance if I’ve heard of this song before.
Singing messiahs
Pensive objection
Faces are gazing
in random directions
I’m waiting for the day when we can make our escape out of the afterlife.

I’m looking around, I'm thinking about it
I’m breaking it down, I’m waiting for cues
They’re dancing around, I’m thinking about it
Stop.
In the model view controller
Life’s divided, organized
It’s easy to see your thoughts
pulled from a database

Illusion of entrapment equals doom.

Misinformed and confused
I’m given options I think I choose
The glow of what I can view
is worshiped as truth
I’m doomed
Let’s ride

The Afterlife

Interview of Ryan on Leipzig's detektor.fm station after Chick Quest was voted band of the month. Interview was published on October 26th, 2016.

Original article and interview can be found on detektor.fm's site:
https://detektor.fm/musik/musikzimmer-band-des-monats-chick-quest

Band of the Month (interview) - detektor.fm / Oct 26, 2016

Post-punk/art-rock from Berlin via Athens, Ga. Check our albums: http://www.chickquest.com/

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