Fun With Word Clouds
As I work on demos for the next album, I’ve been thinking a lot about lyrics, naturally. Then I decided to have a little fun with the lyrics on our releases so far, and make word clouds out of them. Here’s what happens when you plop all 40 Sci-Fi Romance original songs into a word […]
In the End
[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=1734092368 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=2536699433] The more of this noise that I perceive The harder it is for me to believe It’s too much with the hatred, it’s too much with the you-versus-me It’s too much of pretending the truth is too veiled to see It’s hard enough It’s hard […]
The Couch Abides
A few weeks ago, Couch by Couchwest, the online music festival for everybody who couldn’t or didn’t want to go to South by Southwest, called it a day. They started in 2011, and they were recommended to me just before we released The Ghost of John Henry in 2012, so Sci-Fi Romance participated in every […]
If I Fell
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706373″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] You took my hand, took me under your wing So smart, so funny, so perfect at everything All I thought I could never be Try to live up to what you see in me But sometimes the climb’s so steep The clouds shroud a peak out of reach […]
Autumn Waltz
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706368″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] And it’s hard to remember these days The way it all held me in The thrill of skin on skin And it’s hard to recall the way Time could move so slow In your arms that long ago And I wish I could fall in love Like I […]
Temptation Blues
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706363″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Hard times make a man grow strong they say But that ain’t necessarily the case There’s right and wrong, and there’s what a heart can stand But they look different to a desperate man It’s an easy thing to sin And easier still to do it again I […]
Everything Burns
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706358″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] A cold night The fire wanes Another drink To keep me awake Shadows on This life I’ve made What I’ve lost And what I saved But everything burns Everything burns eventually A big house But an empty bed I collapse into And want you instead In this light […]
Goodbye at the End of the World
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706351″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] There are days When it seems Being lonely would be better Than another night with you But there are ways To believe If you tell it long enough A lie becomes the truth And we don’t have to talk about it Why our eyes no longer meet And […]
Pale Blue Dot
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706348″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] A mother’s voice and child’s cry A heart that pounds just like the tide The sound of thunder, sound of rain A solitary voice in pain It’s all so much It’s all so much And all we are All we’ve ever been On a pale blue dot Like […]
Shakespeare’s Lovers
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706343″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The sky may fall The mountains wash away And towers tall Slip beneath the waves But not today Now we’re one What would our parents say? To stay or run Before the breaking day And what will come our way My heart, my heart My love, my love […]