oct2001songs

REALISATION FILTERS (MUSCUTT)
Seemed too simple to believe and when it came no-one heard you call in the silence of too much too soon
You�ll realise its not what comes but what stays behind you�ll see it�s not the end of it all if it seems to be
You can tell anyone at the end of a phone line what you fear
But they�ll tell you there�s nothing to fear nothing at all
You�ll realise its not the end of the world if it turns out that way
You�ll see that we�ve got better things planned for you in death
Innocent corruption turns to ageless eruption turn the light off so the darkness cannot hide
You�ll realise that there�s something there unseen in the darkness
You�ll see that they think that they know what you�re feeling
Peeling away you�re peeling away the layers that make you
Believing it all is taking it all and processing thoughts you know
You�ll realise that it filters all you experience you�ll see that filtering is a process of the mind

This song was one of those weird ones which was written with a kind of half idea of what I knew it was about, but not quite. If anyone read the lyrics they�d probably be pretty confused as to what it means, but the basic idea is one of learning, I guess. Like growing up and experiencing different things, even if they�re evil and nasty.

ACOUSTIC WARFARE (MUSCUTT)
Instrumental track

A short guitar led track as the name suggests, which uses a set of chords that had been played round with for a long time but never fitted any of the lyrics that had been written. In the end it worked as a kind of stand alone sort of a thing, basically an instrumental.

THE OCCUPANT (MUSCUTT)
They know he�s living alone they know that he�s dirty all alone
Yeah they know that he�s guilty they know he feels guilty
But he knows that they knows yeah he knows that they know he knows
But he doesn�t let it show as he hides in the corners of the room
And he says to himself its all over now its been over since it began
So they go to his home where he knows all alone
And they enter his rooms and discover his tombs full of the dead and the dying
And they seek and they find nothing known in his mind he�s escaped
And he�s moving alone all alone all alone he�s alone yeah he�s on his own

One of the songs based on a short story (or a chapter from a short story) that had been written sometime during Spring- Summer 2001. The whole story was called �Floor 96�, and was set on a council estate in the future, after a war.

METROPOLITAN (MUSCUTT)
They use the metro they take the Tube to the heart of the city
They move the trains they take the Underground to get out of the city
Back home they belong but they stray to the places we know they don�t go to
They descend day after day down the bottomless pits of the station
They wait for a conveyance to take them away to their places of work
And they sigh as they consider the day that they know will lie before them
And they die day after day after day after day and we know it goes on
But we produce them again and again and again oh yeah we dethrone them
As they grow older and bolder and conscious and colder we throw them away
Today they�ll use the metro take them to the city underground drains the life that they have away
It�s a living they say as they melt away so slow today they�ll use the trains again and again and again
Past advertising that nobody pays heed to down escalators moving human traffic
Past the man who shouts endless apocalypse as the sounds of the Jazz man come from far away
And they�ll use the trains again they�ll take the metro line
To the station in the city to a platform that will lead to the city
They�re metropolitans they�re from the underground they�ll accept the fate they�re given on the metro
Looking into blank windows of other people�s lives on the night train
Something bad happens in the broken carriage someone gets hurt tonight in the metro will they stay away
They�ll use us like meat again on the underground

This set of lyrics got vastly edited down from it�s longer version, which was about a page long. Another one of the more confused songs, this was written coming out of my �surreal� phase of song writing, and suffers a bit from lack of creativity.

THE CHAOS THEORIES OF SEBASTIAN WATTS (MUSCUTT)
They said he was famous in his time nobody mentions the name anymore
He brought shame upon them his sister and I forged insights in unscrupulous diaries of sins untold
His theory was chaos as if that made any sense at all God proposes and man disposes he once said to me
In a suburb street under synthetic street light before the memory of his sister appeared undeletable
No catalogue entry for these body parts we�re seeing his theory was sin nobody told me what meaning
He spies but they lie until we found the truth unspeakable
He�s an agent who plays in the park he�s legion who plays after dark
His theory is him he�s the spy in the corner taking photos of voyeurs
He�s the one that you would never suspect lurking in the windows
He is clearing up a link in the chain so we would never find him out
Cluttering up the attic with his trophies of the dead and we accept this in our heads
But when we knew we told truth to those who want to know
Uncovered and hide less he runs in shame his theories were disproved now he lives in chaos techniques
He is running up the bills in a place we cannot show
But we know his spirit fades away with his text book show of charm
He is contemplating arms of his legionnaires and how he can make his final move how to end it all so soon

The idea for this song came from an old work colleague of mine during the Summer, who I was talking to about this theory called the �chaos theory�, which basically is about how people�s lives are changed all the time. For instance, if you bump into someone in a crowded place, that has a knock on effect, and another effect and so on, and every single action you decide to do has some effect on either your life or someone else�s. The �God proposes and man disposes� line I saw doodled on a desk at university, and thought it was quite a good one to use. As for who Sebastian Watts is, I have no idea. I made him up.