Bees Knees demo

bees knees demo

Lo-fi glam version of the classic Pixies track.

DEBASER demo

Updated demo with scratch vocal written for Amanda Fucking Palmer's 'NYC Blackout' song contest. She challenged people to write a song in a week, inspired by this article about a blackout in New York City: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/nyc-power-outage.html

LYRICS:

BLACKOUT

We're watching an off-Broadway play
In the second row
When suddenly the lights go out, 
They’re cancelling the show
	
People hold their phones aloft
Their faces all aglow
No one knows what's going on	
We don’t know where to go
But let’s go

We pour into the street 
Strangers start to talk
The subway’s closed so now
I guess we’ll have to walk
In the dark

Two women take a selfie
But a cop shuts down their fun
He says that “Now is not the time”
(Would he say that to his mum
Or Khaleesi?
In a blackout?)

There’s people with champagne
That try to step around
The people roasting food
With candles on the ground

Police patrol the bars
They’re saying, “Move along!”
To people in the street
All singing Broadway songs
We sing along

Things are gonna change
Just you wait and see
Where no one’s in a cage
And everyone is free
Just to be

It may not happen now
But we'll make it happen soon
We're standing in the dark
But under the same moon
The same moon      

They try to take our rights
But they can't take our night
It's our night		
	
And while their power's fading
We'll just keep on creating
And inhaling
All their hatred
Spit it out

And they might think they're winning
But we'll always be singing
On that warm night
In the blackout
In the dark

We’re all in this together
It’s been like this forever
So remember
Just remember
That night

And it might take awhile 
But I still see your smile 
By your phone’s light
As we walked home
In the blackout

On Broadway

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