Quarterly Report.
Any suggestions on what we should use this thing for? I mean: what would enhance your enjoyment of The Paperbacks, and, by extension, our "blog"? I mentioned my own plans for it to be ostensibly used for tour journals or recording journals, but then almost immediately fall victim to misuse and malaise, perhaps even before touring or recording occur. But what would you like to see? Honestly, we live to serve. That is why we choose to make no money with our band, so we can all continue working in the service sector.
By the way, you all look very wonderful. That/those item(s) of clothing really suit(s) you. The singular version is in case you are wearing a radioactivity-protective jumper with connected facemask.
Here's some lyrics to a new song. I'll slowly begin posting some more if that would be of interest. It'll kind of be, like, "blog" exclusives. Even other band members don't see these things until 10 minutes before recording. I'm big on editorial. This blog entry, for example, took over 13 months to write.
A Plague of Doctors.
Graves, depicted on highway signs
To give pause to drivers prone to drifting off.
But in the mid-afternoon
As we drive towards the hospital
They are the scrying stones of oracles.
And when I’m there, they stare, because I’m the youngest here.
I embody their worst fears.
I embody their worst fears,
Because I could be a daughter or a son.
Genetic legacies at work.
I will linger like a curse.
Wherein you shall be beset by a plague of doctors who
Contradict each other and fight against you, too.
At night, cats flit around my bedroom, and
They press their heads to the fresh wounds of a surgery.
And the pain tears through me
But I grit my teeth and suffer it.
Oh, I’m exhausted by my fearlessness.
I know all bodies are inclined to death
And some incline more than the rest
Yes. Some incline more than the rest,
And are reduced to just a totem of these things:
The circumstances of your birth
The limits of your time on Earth.
Chorus.
Love and Rockets,
Doug.
p.s. That's not part of the song.
p.p.s. I'm playing a couple of acoustic shows on the 17th and 18th. Details are here.
By the way, you all look very wonderful. That/those item(s) of clothing really suit(s) you. The singular version is in case you are wearing a radioactivity-protective jumper with connected facemask.
Here's some lyrics to a new song. I'll slowly begin posting some more if that would be of interest. It'll kind of be, like, "blog" exclusives. Even other band members don't see these things until 10 minutes before recording. I'm big on editorial. This blog entry, for example, took over 13 months to write.
A Plague of Doctors.
Graves, depicted on highway signs
To give pause to drivers prone to drifting off.
But in the mid-afternoon
As we drive towards the hospital
They are the scrying stones of oracles.
And when I’m there, they stare, because I’m the youngest here.
I embody their worst fears.
I embody their worst fears,
Because I could be a daughter or a son.
Genetic legacies at work.
I will linger like a curse.
Wherein you shall be beset by a plague of doctors who
Contradict each other and fight against you, too.
At night, cats flit around my bedroom, and
They press their heads to the fresh wounds of a surgery.
And the pain tears through me
But I grit my teeth and suffer it.
Oh, I’m exhausted by my fearlessness.
I know all bodies are inclined to death
And some incline more than the rest
Yes. Some incline more than the rest,
And are reduced to just a totem of these things:
The circumstances of your birth
The limits of your time on Earth.
Chorus.
Love and Rockets,
Doug.
p.s. That's not part of the song.
p.p.s. I'm playing a couple of acoustic shows on the 17th and 18th. Details are here.
posted by Doug at 9:46 PM
3 Comments:
So sad. Sad sad. And, for the first time (right?), your lyrics written out like lyrics with actual line breaks and everything. I mark my calendar.
We could ask you dumb questions like "so which comes first - the words or the music?" like on Saturday morning TV programmes with boy bands. Or you could tell us what you guys do with your days apart from recording a new album...or is that a bit too personal?
as a fan of your songwriting and a [fellow?] vegan, i suggest that you use this blog to post vegan recipes in the form of poems, etcetera. also thank you, you look very wonderful as well. please come to america someday; i promise it is not that scary.
mae.
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