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Blackout Shades

by Maiden Names

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zelotypic I've loved this album since I first found it in 2012. I'm a huge Batman fan (Scarecrow is my favorite character, and he's how I found this). The entire album is so beautiful and I could honestly listen to it forever. Favorite track: Eyeblack.
Keej
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Keej Amazing music, regardless of being a Batman fan or not. Very dark and almost reminds me of Southern Gothic music. Favorite track: Your Suffering.
Mel
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Mel Absolutely nerdgasmic. I fell in love with "Your suffering" the second I listend to it. Nice to know there are still dedicated artists out there, would love to hear more. Favorite track: Your Suffering.
Krampus
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Krampus Minimalist and depressing in a way that rewards repeated listening.
Touches an emotional chord without pandering.
Achieves a nearly perfect blend of intimate lyrics and expressive melody. Favorite track: Stop Bleeding.
Niamh
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Niamh I love this album! I've never come across a collection of music that manages to capture the characters of the Batman universe as well as this album does! Favorite track: American Hero.
Rowdy Vandeventer
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Rowdy Vandeventer I'm not terribly familiar with the batman mythos, but this is real solid music regardless. Favorite track: No Slack.
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1.
This will go on forever until one of us breaks so shuffle up those cards my friend, go on and raise the stakes You know I won’t stay down under your lock and key I’m a part of you now honey, you’re a part of me Drive the point home as gently as you can Try to remember that you’re the better man You’re gunna love me, that’s what you said You’re gunna love me, yeah, maybe when I’m dead Ha ah ha ah ha ah ha ah ah ha So, what stage of grief is this supposed to be? Another scene of the blackest comedy where I watch you suffer sins for which you can’t atone and in the dark I feed the fire, I’m not leaving you alone
2.
This wicked city This vicious town It broke my spirit It burnt me down If I ever had a friend I could count on If I ever had a love to call my own they’re gone Oh oh oh oh And I thank God that Justice is blind ‘cause if she saw what I have done she would lose her mind Change your name Erase your face American hero I sympathize the deepest with the worst of humankind Because we once held tenderly what we now set on fire
3.
Religion left you in the dust of Georgia in the summer months Shrieking calls of murderous crows would rouse you from your slumber Fresh haystacking burlap sacking scratched against your skin She locked you in that place again and filled you up with sin Night comes down, make your poison Starve your muscles down to your skeleton They’re all fatted cows slated for slaughtering Dig deep down and kill You’re suffering, kill Kill your suffering The city lights are awfully bright but they don’t keep you up at night You’ve got some vital things to do and nobody is safe You thought it would be different here you thought that it would disappear Once you choked your only fear and put it in its grave
4.
My hands around your throat are just another joke You will take it smiling, so self-sacrificing I’ll never touch you the way you need me to for my hands, attuned to violence, have forgotten how to soothe I can’t believe the things I’ve done to you Can love exist in this hell we put each other through? ‘Cause if there’s a white light when we die I hope it’s the same light for you and I Another replay of the scene where they strip and scrub you clean You look so awfully naked in the florescent shower sheen I’ve never been laid bare like that, dissected and displayed And fucked and fragile as you are, you are so very brave Can we stop bleeding long enough to start healing?
5.
I know where you’re going but I don’t know when Someday you’re gunna break if you don’t learn how to bend Blackout shades…you sleep all day It’s on my mind every single night and I’m tired now I can’t wait I can’t wait up for you Sometimes you’re just a child playing pretend Half of you doesn’t know where the other half’s been Took your silver spoon, traded it for the moon And you try, but you can’t tell wrong from right
6.
Sickly love, my sickly love on a highway sign Sickly love, my sickly love ‘neath the neon lights Give me one good reason why I should cry if you were to die If you would die Come down to earth now Come down to earth Sickly love, my sickly love Time to end the hurt Sickly love, my sickly love Turn back into dirt
7.
Eyeblack 03:51
There’s a party at the manor, a monthly affair to keep all the tigresses hungry All of them built like bomber beauties for a pantomime of slink and sly With rings of black around their eyes Rings of black around their eyes tonight You never see me miss a beat the wounds I bear remain discreet I make an entrance but you never see me leave It’s my kindest cruelty to deceive With rings of black around my eyes Rings of black around my eyes tonight And I know you’re waiting there for me Like a child, inconsolably There’s a haunting ecstasy in your smile All-devouring With rings of black around your eyes Rings of black around your eyes tonight … ‘glimpsed in silhouette, deepening violet’* *from the poem ‘Explaining an Affinity for Bats’ by A.E. Stallings
8.
You ain’t got the sense of a dog sometimes I wonder if the fault’s more yours or mine ‘cause I’m always ready to scratch your itch Ain’t it good to know that I’m your bitch?
9.
No Slack 03:38
Wonder what it’s like inside your dark retreat Suiting up tonight, assemble piece by piece Skin so black and blue seldom sees the sun Does anyone touch you, do you touch anyone? Tabs on you and tabs on me, we circle endlessly Two dots on a radar screen with silence in between The longer you can look away, the more you care for me The closest we can ever be is when you turn to leave What a bitter price you pay to play this game You’re making all the rules, nobody else to blame Go round and round the track, at least you’re going fast You’ll force it ‘til you snap You got no slack You hit me hard I hit you harder The world’s greatest Living martyr

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Alexa and Mark would like to thank:

Diane & David Rose
P & M
Charlie Hely
Tony White
Valentina Calastri
Neil Cicierega
Ming Doyle
Ryan Murphy
Alora Lanzillotta
Emmy Cicierega
Nancy Cicierega
Alfred
You

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released November 11, 2011

Written by Alexa Rose*
Arranged and Produced by Mark Boccard

*except 'Blackout Shades' and 'Come Down to Earth', co-written with Mark Boccard

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