Faces in the Dark

from The Disaster of Imagination by Sense of Scenery

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Recording this track taught me the importance of having the drummer tied to a click track, (or metronome) because all of the instruments added really were a lot harder to treat than it sounds. I'm not sure if I got exactly what I wanted from the sessions of trying to capture this song, but like I've said, the whole experience was a completely new thing to me, so I just did what I thought I needed to, and then moved on.

In the movie, 'Amelie', the central character enjoys watching the faces of people in the dark of movie theatres, as they're engaged in whatever movie. I like to do the same, at not only movies, but any kind of show.

lyrics

‘Faces in the Dark’

So you want to hear the symphony
Do you want to feel the teeth?
In translations, saturated rhymes
All the powders, all the bleak
Needs for logic to define
A permutation of this scene
You’re out there hiding within yourself
Try being in here with me

A puff of dust
Creates shadow silhouettes
They march along the screen
Enough’s enough
Everything and everyone
You’re all in for a treat

While the
Real life
Will deviate
From the storyline
While the
Real life
Will violate
Your lovely mind

What you have isn’t what you want
What you want you wouldn’t keep
Nothing risked is nothing lost
In misology

A puff of dust
Creates shadow silhouettes
They march along the screen
Enough’s enough
Everything and everyone
In manufactured dreams

(Silent)
Real life
Deviates
Story lines
Real life
Deviates
Story lines

While the
Real life
Will deviate
From the storyline
While the
Real life
Will violate
Your lovely mind

credits

from The Disaster of Imagination, track released October 31, 2009
(c) 2009, S. Douglas/Sense of Scenery Music.

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Sense of Scenery Vancouver, British Columbia

Drums -
Drew Land

Everything Else -
Sean Douglas

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