Short edit of a giant, Lovecraft god monster roar.

God Of The Bloody Tongue Roar (mix 1)

Roar for a shoggoth named Besty from the play "Shoggoths on the Veldt." I used heavily process guitar FX and various animal noises, pitched and reversed.

Betsy Underscore (mix 2)

Another rough mix. But like with Got Some Questions, thought it'd be better to just get it out there than let it sit. Will probably re-upload later.




These butterflies have razor wings
They rip me open when I hear you sing
My insides sound like they’ve had enough
As my brain drowns in what sounds like love

Bitter honey to start the day
Hate the feel but love the taste
Don't want this twisting to fade
I'd rather my bones splinter and break 

Waking up is the hardest part
Separate from your fire heart 
But my stone will is too weak
I want to be smothered in your cheeks 

I believe i might be broken
And you're the one who did me in
could you do me a solid, babe?
And glue the pieces back in place

These butterflies have razor wings
They rip me open when I hear you sing...

Evie Herndon's Album

Butterflies

take it up with Jesus cause i’m busy
peddle your bullshit to someone who cares
not in the mood to share my whiskey
taking all i’ve got to fix my own affairs

(well, if you're gonna pry)
i guess some prick ran off with my queen
before i knew that she was real
whole time i thought she was just a dream
i guess it took to long for my eyes to peal 

it's all waiting rooms for waiting rooms, kid
least that's what i have been led to think
so pickup your phone or a magazine, kid
think i'll pour myself another drink

all used up but not thrown away
hanging on every sound she makes
toilet paper stuck to her shoe
dragged around for a mile or two
one of these days i'll grow a spine
one of these days i might try that wine

i waited for her
she didn’t wait for me
so it goes
c'est la vie
Everything is her 
there's Nothing in me
so it goes
another c'est la vie

i waited for her
she didn’t wait for me
so it goes
c'est la vie
i ruined her life
she designed my dreams
so it goes
another c'est la vie

So It Goes (Demo)

ATTENTION NOLAN & RAMON: Here's a relatively presentable version of that new song I showed you a couple weeks ago. Still working out the kinks. I recorded this before I really nailed down the arrangement, so it'll change a bit from this. Mainly that forth verse. I want to take it out and go straight in chorus. But anyway, it's mostly there. Oh and Nolan: if you have any sick ass lead line ideas, let me know.


LYRICS:

i've been contemplating about
gouging my eyes out
giving them to you
so you could see you
the way i do

come on and see what i see
the flowers and the weeds
the rain forest of you
the whole damn thing of you
i want to soak in all your truth

a cosmic melody
space-time anomaly
intoxicating 
a rather pretty lady

a cosmic melody
my favorite dream
primordial peace
drop dead sexy

not a broken woman
or an evil omen
when the whips of time build
and the scorns of time build
they'd puzzle even God's will

a cosmic melody
space-time anomaly
intoxicating 
a rather pretty lady

a cosmic melody
my favorite dream
primordial peace
drop dead sexy

you're swimming in my bones
and with my chromosomes
my genetic code
wants to get you all alone 

a cosmic melody
my favorite dream
primordial peace
drop dead sexy

Primordial Thing

This is a song I did with the great Nolan Wilson. He wrote the chord progression and I did a bunch of nonsense on the slide.

Nolan's C (Or... D?) Thing

i might be a fucking failure 
or God's own anal fissure 
if there's one thing i know for sure
life's a slowly shrinking aperture

dance to the beat
of the mundane drum
shuffle your feet
till kingdom come
then find your seat
the show's already begun

burn the corporate american flag
it's flopping like a faded siamese cat
plastic grim reaper's up at bat
this life is spider-web cracks in the glass

dance to the beat
of the mundane drum
shuffle your feet
till kingdom come
then find your seat
the show's already begun

is chasing a median average 
annual six figure income
worth a petrified 
forest of dead eyed souls
dead eyed souls
dead eyed souls

9 to 5
reminds me
i am dying
very slowly

dance to the beat
of the mundane drum
shuffle your feet
till kingdom come
then find your seat
the show's already begun

Flag Burning (Demo obvs)

she bathes everything around her
in the soft naked wind of her soul
like aurora borealis  
drizzles color over the northern snow

it’s like seeing the evening sky on fire
or the ocean loose it’s cold hot mind
as clouds call the weather man a liar
and glaciers cut their ropes held by time 

She's nature dressed in her Sunday best
How could the lake not thaw inside my chest?
She's nature in her Sunday best
i'm a pile of rocks, a shattered mess?

I don’t think i’m hiding well enough
all these stones turn over like cowards
with a knowing smirk shot at my rubble bed
she melts my rocks into translucent flowers

could i be that fucking obvious?
am i a pervert or a connoisseur?
is my facade that goddamn dubious?
pitifully enamored by her grandeur  

She's nature dressed in her Sunday best
How could the lake not thaw inside my chest?
She's nature in her Sunday best
i'm a pile of rocks, a shattered mess?

She's nature dressed in her Sunday best
How could the lake not thaw inside my chest?
She's a starry night in afternoon sweats
I’m knocked to the floor, under arrest

Nature in Her Sunday Best (Demo)

This is a dumb idea I had for making a bad Christian song a little more bearable. It's a mashup/medley thing of Hillsong United's The Stand to the tune of Where's My Mind? by the Pixies. It sort of works? I, for one, kind of like it. Or at least, it's more fun to play and sing than the regular song. Whether it's actually good or not? YOU BE THE JUDGE! (be gentle).

The Stand/Where's My Mind? Medley (demo)

This is a little taste of what they're letting me do over at Dragon Productions. There's a part in the play where a giant monster shows up (it is Lovecraft after all), so this was my chance to make me a damn kaiju roar. 

In the original "Gojira" by Ishiro Honda, Godzilla's roar was created by the film's composer, Akria Ifukube. Ifukube found an old, leather workman's glove that must have belonged to someone on the crew. It was caked in dried resin and tattered all to hell. Ifukube then dragged the glove along the strings of an upright bass at various directions and speeds and recorded it on jolly ol’ magnetic tape. After messing with playback speeds and reversing the audio and a few other processing techniques, he and the sound engineers created one of my favorite sounds in all of film: Godzilla's roar.

So! Since I couldn't really re-create that whole process, I just mimicked it with a crappy electric guitar, some analog effects pedals (Electro Harmonix Memory Man delay and Big Muff fuzz), a nice tube amp and some fucked up tools like a rusted screw driver, a crowbar caked in dried paint and a drill bit covered in dry wall bits. Then I dragged that garbage across the strings. I had fun.

This was a rough demo that I've since layered and mixed with other things, so if you wanna see what it'll sound like in action, you'll have to see "Shoggoths on the Veldt" at Dragon Theatre in Redwood City.

jonathancovey