It's a semi-concept album. It tells the story of Cheif Omusa (which means - "he who misses with arrow"). But only Certain songs go with the theme, these songs may be the weakest tracks on the record but i dont care, fuck off. I am happy with it.
(in no order)
a goodbye is in order - this was one of the songs for "the suicide album", I dropped that idea b/c it was just too dark and miserable to deal with. It's basically a lonely sad song about killing yourself. these songs are easy to write. Don't worry I'm not going to kill myself I have alot to live for.
A Guest : Act 4 - Basically the spanish conquistadors come to the america, and ruin the lives of indians thru the columbian exchange, capitalism, and catholicism. Sorry Catholics, it's the truth - you ruined the world.
A kings ransom - Sung by the amazing Liza Dietrich, Basically about losing a love and not being able to bring that person back, and i guess more about the fact that you really dont realize this until its too late.
A song to kill yourself to - this songs sounds more like it should be on Psychic Energizer. It's another Suicide album song. I wrote this one after not drinking at a really kick ass party, and i was feelin kinda down. so the moral of the story is get hammered whenever you can.
Battle Symphony : Act 5 - featuring an illegal sample of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. it's just a battle that takes place in the cheif saga. I'm not much for an intrumental, I think its neat.It was actually written for the Fern st. red carpet party movie, but it was not used. Could have been good publicity, nope, instead some death metal song was used.
Helen of Troy - over christmas i ran into an exgirlfriend and thought, ahhh i kinda miss her. not much here.
Hey Rebel - a favorite of mine, 3 parts to this song, verse one about a special girl that i really care about and get jealous and overprotective of, second about crazy rebels and their crazy flag hats, third is about a girl i use to have an insane crush over in highschool. took awhile to get over, so it surfaces in songs from time to time.
If only vertigo - This song was just a crazy drum beat and i thru guitar over it, I wrote this over winter locked up in my room alone as alone can be. I was kinda going crazy with no human contact ...so this song is about being crazy, and wishing that it were a cool explanable crazyness like vertigo.
Act Three - Journey of CHeif Omusa, just being crazy doing mythical crap.
Life goes on - act 7 - exactly that, life goes on. I got the idea from the movie "21 grams". Cool fucking movie, check out "amorres perros" it's from the same director/writer.
My lifes a zoo - I got hammered on wine and supposedly threatened to kill myself,i dont remember any of it - only what i have been told, the next day I felt so embarrased for myself and the person that had to put up with me. thanks. so it's about how out of control my life was at that time.
No one understands - I wrote the music and Liza wrote the lyrics and sang. It's pretty good for a 16 year old, and i think it's good period. so i cant explain what its about. My only contribution to the lyrics are "modern man" and "2000 man" lines, i ripped it off a rolling stones song i had been listening to, sorry mick.
In the beginning : act 2 - Mythological beginning of Native American culture. Basically i just lifted a story that explained how the world came to be.
the creepiest mail I've recieved - just that, it was one hell of a christmas card. it was really frigthening - Angels, picnicing families, and a station wagon. Just reminded me of how much i missed the girl that made it, it actually made me more sad than creeped out.
The Kids - also written fro the movie mentioned earlier, also not used. When you can't get a song on a meaningless home movie, you realize maybe you aren't doing something right. The songs about college kids being too crayz and drinking and drugging and sexing too much, kinda the theme of the movie.
The Moon died - Radiohead inspired madness, the moon and outerspace...what more can i say i love it. so liza sings. the song's about hopelessly being in love, and kinda using outerspace phenomon to describe the feeling. we screw around in the background of the song, I dont even know what we were saying.
Act Six - Cheif O's wife dies. he picks things up and moves on.