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Dead Behind The Eyes

from The Highwire CalamEP by The Highwire Calamity

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Upbeat song about your friendly neighbourhood psychopath. Im really proud of the string arrangement to the last third.

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Dead Behind The Eyes:
Everybody knows there's something wrong with the kid in the house with the trellis and the ivy on. It's a shame.
In the house across the street there's eyes in the glow. The curtains twitch back from the front window.
And as the years have passed we've met him once or twice
And all the times we have there's something not quite right
There's something very weird about that boy
There's something very wrong when he smiles
The teeth are on show but the lights are all blown
The dancing on your grave to the music of the bones
He's the grey blank slate you cannot know. Dead behind the eyes.

His parents spend their Sundays in the church. We think they pray for the lifting of the curse.
We watch the stream of girls he seems to know. They arrive Lux Lisbon style in through the window.
We only see each once and we never see them leave.
We think there's a graveyard beneath the falling leaves
There's something very weird about that boy
There's something very wrong when he smiles
The teeth are on show but the lights are all blown
The dancing on your grave to the music of your bones
He's the grey blank slate you cannot know. Dead behind the eyes

I know you may think i am carried away but the eyes, they show nothing like two empty frames on a soul that's gone AWOL, if it was ever there
And you feel yourself withering under his stare.
So we watch to see what he'll get up to next with a quivering lip and butterflies in my chest, and you may think i am joking to mess with your head, but tonight he came for dinner and now i am...

credits

from The Highwire CalamEP, released January 5, 2017
Violin - Jane Fawcett, Guitars/Bass/Cello/Vocals- Simon Fawcett, Drums - Rich Clarke, Production/Mixing/Everything else- Mike Mcguill

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The Highwire Calamity Gravesend, UK

Aiming for somewhere between Arcade Fire and Murder By Death, usually missing wildly.

I had songs that weren't right for my other band (3dbsdown.bandcamp.com), so I started demoing them for myself. It has got a bit out of hand. I'd like to record more songs properly but that costs money, so all contributions gratefully accepted.
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