Album Notes: Necronomicon
Posted by Hudson Eakin on Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Every week I release a song I'll be releasing some album notes on it.
Keep in mind that this is only what the song means to me and I don't
want to have any influence on what the music means to you. If Endorphin
reminds you of washing the dishes, so be it. If it reminds you of doing
that crazy party you went to or makes you feel like a sumo wrestler is
sitting on your chest, awesome. Keep that. The only reason why I write
these is for the sake of curiosity and so that a couple years from now
I can look back on this and go "Oh yeah! I remember now...".
Music is personal, and it's not my place to tell you how to interpret my work.
Enjoy!
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This song was the hardest to write for me musically because the bass part is so weird. Inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers' cover of Higher Ground and the chorus to Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance I wanted Necronomicon to be a "get-up-and-go" song with a little bit more mayhem.
Lyrically this song is about zombies. No joke. But not in the way you're probably thinking. This song is about being a zombie, about raising from the dead to continue where you left off. This was the last song I completed on the album, after I'd worked all the anger out of my system with songs like My Best Shot, resolved by confusion in songs like Endorphin, and dealt with my blues in songs like 1900, the mindset for Necronomicon was "Okay enough bullshit... let's get to work."
The song's title came from the song's central theme of raising from the dead. If you're a fellow nerd like I am than you're well aware that the Necronomicon was the book used in the (best? worst? most amazing? absolutely terrible?) movie Army Of Darkness to raise the evil army of undead from their graves.
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Lyrics:
Let's kick this off,one more time,
But we best hurry up,before we lose our minds,
Every seconds gone,and we can't get it back,
But what's the point of living,if you fear death?
I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care!
Because I'll write my ending, when I get there
Chorus:
I shall not fear, when I'm walking alone
My survival rate is zero, but these streets are my home
I come from a place, that's heaven and hell
Where the dead are welcome, and all is well
Give me your, cold, your hungry,
Your damned and forgotten
Your sad sob stories, and that song in your head
Your sorrow, your fury, your ignant and lost,
The bandits and bastards, because we're all dead
Chorus
They're marching...
They're coming...
They're drumming....
They're running...
I wanna scream so loud,
Let's wake the dead,
Get this song stuck,
In Satan's head...
Chorus
Music is personal, and it's not my place to tell you how to interpret my work.
Enjoy!
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This song was the hardest to write for me musically because the bass part is so weird. Inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers' cover of Higher Ground and the chorus to Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance I wanted Necronomicon to be a "get-up-and-go" song with a little bit more mayhem.
Lyrically this song is about zombies. No joke. But not in the way you're probably thinking. This song is about being a zombie, about raising from the dead to continue where you left off. This was the last song I completed on the album, after I'd worked all the anger out of my system with songs like My Best Shot, resolved by confusion in songs like Endorphin, and dealt with my blues in songs like 1900, the mindset for Necronomicon was "Okay enough bullshit... let's get to work."
The song's title came from the song's central theme of raising from the dead. If you're a fellow nerd like I am than you're well aware that the Necronomicon was the book used in the (best? worst? most amazing? absolutely terrible?) movie Army Of Darkness to raise the evil army of undead from their graves.
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Lyrics:
Let's kick this off,one more time,
But we best hurry up,before we lose our minds,
Every seconds gone,and we can't get it back,
But what's the point of living,if you fear death?
I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care!
Because I'll write my ending, when I get there
Chorus:
I shall not fear, when I'm walking alone
My survival rate is zero, but these streets are my home
I come from a place, that's heaven and hell
Where the dead are welcome, and all is well
Give me your, cold, your hungry,
Your damned and forgotten
Your sad sob stories, and that song in your head
Your sorrow, your fury, your ignant and lost,
The bandits and bastards, because we're all dead
Chorus
They're marching...
They're coming...
They're drumming....
They're running...
I wanna scream so loud,
Let's wake the dead,
Get this song stuck,
In Satan's head...
Chorus