Marsh Witch Visions
Title: Marsh Witch Visions
Released: 2017
Label: Merge Records
Liner Notes
(album Bandcamp page):
AT LONG LAST THE MARSH WITCH VISIONS EP RECORDED BY SCOTT SOLTER LIVE AND DIRECT IN THE OLD SCHOOL STYLE. FOUR SONGS ABOUT OZZY OSBOURNE PLUS THE HOME DEMO OF "RAIN IN SOHO" BEFORE IT GOT THE VOCAL ARRANGEMENT. IF YOU DONATED TO CHARITY BACK IN APRIL THEN PLEASE ACCEPT THESE SONGS AS A BELATED THANK YOU. IF YOU DIDN'T YOU CAN EITHER PAY WHAT YOU WANT OR DONATE TO A CHARITY, OR JUST DO WHAT YOU FEEL
DEDICATED TO MIKE K BACK IN CLAREMONT AT WHOSE HOUSE I FIRST HEARD "MASTER OF REALITY" WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN, DESPERATE & HIGH
RESPECT TO BIRMINGHAM 1
Table of Contents
Marsh Witch Vision
Break into shining storefronts up and down the avenue
Do six months for burglary, get a fresh tattoo
Dad buys a PA system, I invite some friends around
Just some guys I know from town
All the normal things to do down here just bore me
What is this I see before me
Take a job up at the slaughterhouse, hammer in hand
Happy on the weekends singing with my band
And then one day we’re bound for Denmark
One change of clothes in tow
So let’s go
When the spirit moves within you, how can you resist the call
I love you all
Shirtless in Hamburg
Alright, Shirtless in Hamburg
Sleep two to a bed
Four to a room
Prophets from the countryside
Glad tidings of doom
Too broke to play around
Like the soldiers do
All up and down
The glittering avenue
Anything's better than the future
I can see that from here
Stack the amplifiers high
Turn up the bass
Spring wild from the wings
With glitter on my young face
It's miserable outside
But in here it's warm
It always feels so stable
At the center of the storm
Snake on my chest for protection
Why the hell not
California Jam
Helicopter in from Los Angeles
Land in Ontario, there's guys with cameras
Hey you, can I get a quick interview
Beat-up stretch limousine to the speedway
In the baking sun, stay high all day
Take to the stage, lords of the age
Drums rolling like buffalo down the plain
And I am an oncoming train
Me and the ghosts of Birmingham 2
Me and the ghosts of Birmingham 3
Light rigging over, rainbow behind
And the cloudless sky, and the infinite distances in my mind
Arms in the air, sun in my hair
Rise like dancers, stick the landing
Feel kind of beautiful, everybody here is beautiful
That's just how I feel, and it's real
Drums rolling like buffalo down the plain
And I am an oncoming train
Me and the ghosts of Birmingham 4
Me and the ghosts of Birmingham 5
No More Tears
Insane in a studio in Los Angeles
Rudderless and hungry and high
Ideas of no earthly consequence
Float across my consciousness
And then go dark
As bullseyes
Go down the devil's way
Go down a twenty devil way
Twenty years on they'll be asking what I remember
Go where the dry dust crawlers tread
The fire in the vocal booth
The doctor who filed down my teeth
Dreams from the ether overhead
Go down the devil's way
Go down a twenty devil way
Lit candles pressed into the walls down there
Three cans of Aqua Net in my greying hair
Arsenic drifting down through the hourglass
Track-lit hallways that go on for days
Floating like a Portuguese man o' war
Pretty hardcore
Fire offerings, burnt offerings
Thanks and praise
Go down the devil's way
Go down the devil's way
Go down the devil's way
Go down a twenty devil way
Rain in Soho
Rain in Soho is annotated with Goths
Album Credits
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Footnotes
- Ozzy Ozbourne grew up in Birmingham, England. ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩