Matter
(J. Belville)

You can say the words
To their faces
They won’t listen
You can sound it out
Any way you can
And
You can tell your dreams
To the world
They won’t listen
Your hopes and invention
Don’t matter to them

But they matter to me
They matter to me
And your whispers 
Sing like sirens
To me

Standing by like a hero
With nothing to save
Up against all the
Water, wind, and the waves
And if you
Take a moment just to
Shield your face
Shut your mouth
Let your secrets
Keep their place
Oooh
You’ll tell them to no one

But you can tell them to me
You can tell them to me
And your sentiments are diamonds
To me
They matter to me
They matter to me
And your whispers sing like sirens
To me

Violent Whispers: Songs & Secrets from The Echoing Green

Matter

Heaven (Devil In The Details)

The Huntress

Part of FAWM.org songwriting challenge.  Challenge was to spell out words in the lyrics.  I may have taken it a bit overboard.  Oh and also, a second verse would help.

FinWay

I've lost myself
I'm not myself
I'm someone just like me
or M-I-U?

breadcrumb trail through the corridor
I don't see me anymore N U
is it true?

U-N Me can C
there's no F in 'way'
we're just spelling U-N-I over
10-9-8 the countdown of nothing 2 say
when did we become M-T-2-U?



FinWay (demo)

Another track for February Album Writing Month (Fawm.org).  This one was not part of a public challenge, but it was a challenge for me, nonetheless.  

I'm a sucker for good break-up songs.  Even though I've not been in one since college, the ones I have left a permanent coat hanging in my closet of moods - and while I've no need to wear it out, I can put it on just the an occasion like this song... and it still fits. :)

Anyways that's enough romanticizing. This song is is where the one you thought you loved has become your emotional executioner - all written in the context of a BANK ROBBERY.

And true to form, a Very unfinished demo with a missing second verse.  *sigh*  I wouldn't have posted it at all, except I need to have something that justifies why I was up past 3am last night.

Kisses to Chaos

do exactly as I tell you
while counting in twos
and put your lies where I can see them
it's something to prove
nobody moves.

every whisper hits my ear
with the shot of a gun
you've fired away
fire away

every sentence engineered
just to hurt only one
from kisses to chaos
shrieking in tongues

Kisses to Chaos (DEMO)

most all of the drums were done in stylus rmx with samples from sounds to sample!

Can You Hear Us?  (feat. Annabel Adams)

Let's Go! (Radio Edit)

Suffer

Hope Against Hope (feat. Jayne Cawthon)

One Past, Two Stories. (feat. Annabel Adams)

Founded by Joey Belville and fortified by Chrissy Jeter, electro-pop force The Echoing Green developed a genre-defying live act touring the world with various hardcore, ska, and rock bands - the genres making strange bedfellows at the time. Songwriting duo Belville & Jeter have evolved The Echoing Green into a dynamic and compelling pioneer of the electronic landscape, with an 11-album catalogue blending pop, rock, electro, new wave, post-punk, and synthpop, with singles featured on SyFy and Xbox’s DDR Universe. Rooted in a love for all electronica and shaped by pop sensibility, their music explores literary, philosophical, and spiritual depths through melodic hooks and dance-ready beats. 

The band found early inspiration in synth-heavy 80s groups Depeche Mode and New Order establishing their own style by infusing rock and synth elements into charismatic live shows. Their hybrid sound is often compared to indie/synth/new wave acts The Naked & Famous,  Actors, Cold Cave, Nine Inch Nails, and CHVRCHES soundtracking life on society’s fringe and drawing a diverse fan base ranging from goths to gospel-lovers, punks to pop enthusiasts.

Set for October 23 release, their new double-vinyl collection Violent Whispers: Songs and Stories from the Echoing Green offers a remastered overview of the unique spectrum of music they’ve created, from the dark, electro-grunge track “Revenge” (imagine NIN covering “Video Killed the Radio Star”) to the sparse, industrial cool of “Matter” to the bright, 80s new wave of “I Forget.” 

 - Anna Elise Anderson

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