Fanfic

Every time I hit the ground

I need you now

Every time I hit the ground

I need you now

And there’s a funny thing I don’t understand

The way that you say no

You like to make the world your own

It doesn’t obey your say so

The sea won’t rise and the dead stay gone

The nights might pass but you’ll still be wrong

Mistakes were made and feelings will haunt

You don’t need a conscience to do what you want

Every time I feel your pain

It’s all in vain

Every time I feel your pain

It’s all in vain

brick up your walls the rest of your life

Stay inside your safety zone

Chaos upturns every plan

You can’t get free of the unknown

The sea won’t rise and the dead stay gone

The nights might pass but you’ll still be wrong

Mistakes were made and feelings will haunt

You don’t need a conscience to do what you want

Burn your bridges, set fire to the truth

Love doesn’t matter when you’re in your youth

A lifetime of distrust and ill unease

You don’t need a conscience to do what you please

We’ve been in the studio working on some new tunes…we will be releasing some singles in the near future, with an album coming late in 2013…

I have to make this up to you
Since all these things I can’t undo
When you moved in that’s when I ran out
Still spend every day in doubt
Over and over you said I ruined your life
But after all it was just stealing time

The Zilker Lights are high above
A testament to our dead love
From me a smile from you a sneer
But I can’t help but hold you dear
I have falsified this vicious truth
I have to make it up to you

I need to make things up with you
And punishment I won’t elude
I’ve come to terms with all my lies
And forgave myself why don’t you try

Break it in your mind
Tearing at my insides
Feelings aren’t all right
But my wit is useless this time

Alone
This city sprawls out ahead
Where devils are known to tread
I’m on my way home
Alone
The darkness flows on ahead
Where devils are known to tread
I’m on my way home

We’ve finished the basic recording for our new single, “The Zilker Lights.” It’s still in the mixing staging but will be out very soon.

We are looking at two new releases for 2012, if we can squeeze them in…

The first is a brand new single, “The Zilker Lights,” which is almost completed and will be coming out as a free single during the summer. There will be some unusual aspects about this release, so wait for more information on this one.

The second release will be an EP. This is still in the planning stages, but a lot of new material has already been written and the band is really excited about it. More details to come.

Also, there may be a cover or three coming…watch our soundcloud page for that!

Fanfic, of course, is an electropop band, and it ain’t no lie: I love the genre. Probably the single greatest pioneer of the genre is Vince Clarke, who gave us three of the greatest bands in its history: Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure.

It may seem a bit odd since we’re quite a bit darker, on average, than Erasure, but even I have to admit there’s more to life than Low and Joy Division.

These are just my favorite Erasure songs, spoken as a fan.

1. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day) Great music, fantastic melody, and wrenching lyrics, one of Andy’s best. One of my favorite songs, period, by any band.

2. Drama! Very pertinent words from Andy, dazzling keyboard parts, and an awesome vocal.

3. I Bet You’re Mad at Me Nightbird is my favorite Erasure album, and this is my favorite tune. It just has a haunting quality I like very much. I also love the keyboard part that Vince plays in the bridge. Genius.

4. In My Arms “I thought about you twice just then.” Gorgeous line in a gorgeous ballad. Also has the little experimental noises used to great effect on Erasure.

5. I Love You Also from Erasure. Another long tune I wish was even longer.

6. Breath of Life That jumpy keyboard riff gets me every time.

7. A Little Respect Everybody loves this song. It’s the law, and a damn good one.

8. No Doubt Did I mention Nightbird is my favorite album? Also my favorite opening to any Erasure record, with those huge multi-tracked vocals.

9. Chorus Lots of ambient noises and a huge chorus…as one might have guessed.

10. When I Start to Break It All Down (Little Loud Mix) I wasn’t in love with the production of Tomorrow’s World, standing firmly on the “Andy doesn’t need auto-tuning” camp. This is a great tune, however, and this mix in particular, IMO, lets the song shine.

Honorable Mention: Storm in a Teacup, Save Me Darling, Don’t Say You Love Me, Always (Microbots Trance Dance Mix), I Love Saturday, Stop!, Love to Hate You (“I like to read a murder mystery/I like to know the killer isn’t me”) and…yeah, pretty much everything else…

-Joe

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(Kelly/Green)

You have no secrets left to sell
It’s news all over the world
The Fall
Synchronized to the beat of machines
Go behind the screen
There’s more to the sacred
Than anything words can mean
The hidden side yourself
Give this prize to me
I want it all
The outer shell and what’s unseen

We’re partners in this crime
Violence against ourselves
The need to connect the will to forget
This is not an exit
We’re partners with the damned
A pain that transcends itself
The need to possess a heart to process
I’ll dream of love not conquest

Your fast fashion marks the world
We’re out of step with the times
It’s all
The rage and the clamoring scene
Go behind the screen
The infinite beckons
We can’t explain what this means
Symbols and signs engulf
Galaxies of meaning
Connect the lines
When I read your mind, you still lie to me

We’re partners in this crime
Violence against ourselves
The need to connect the will to forget
This is not an exit
We’re partners with the damned
A pain that transcends itself
The need to possess a heart to process
I’ll dream of love not conquest

(Kelly/Green)

You’re offering your soft, baby
Get your grips off me
You might be warm blooded
It’s not enough for me

It’s the piston
Shove it down
Drive it uptown
It’s the motor
Coming strong
Feeling so wrong

We’re on smashup highway, baby
Airbag turning me on
Crumpled steel, glass, and rubber
That’s all I really want

It’s the piston
Shove it down
Drive it uptown
It’s the motor
Coming strong
Feeling so wrong

What I need tonight
Is mechanical touch
Had enough of skin
Had too much of love
Need mechanical touch
Just mechanical touch

What I need tonight
Is mechanical touch
Had enough of skin
Had too much of love
Need mechanical touch
Just mechanical touch

Tell me why
You’d want to fuck Ronald Reagan
I need mechanical touch
Who wants to fuck Ronald Reagan
I need mechanical touch

(Kelly/Green)

Picking off the kiddies one by one
Treatment is the cure and the fascination
Tightening the noose turning up the fun
A salted margarita or your menstruation
Dancing off the rooftops just for fun
Politics is boring without tribulation
Fucking you is not my only way to come
But just another method of gratification

The cream rises to the top
The dream is to never stop

I am going to Heaven
I am taking you with me
I am going to Heaven
I am taking you with me

Breaking you to pieces means it’s just begun
The curtain rises to reveal the new creation
The beating of your heart is the burning of the sun
Might not be love but it’s quite a sensation
Taking all these souls on the way to become
I am the apex of mass predation
The killing is the thrilling baby you’re the one
The most dangerous animal is my temptation

The cream rises to the top
The dream is to never stop

I am going to Heaven
I am taking you with me
I am going to Heaven
I am taking you with me

(Kelly/Green)

Take the train into the night
Kirschen schnaps en erste klasse
Cherry bottle taste of moonshine
The door slides open
It’s my time

Awkward stumble into discotheque
They can tell that I don’t belong
I dance too well and don’t hold my drink
And the Pils they work the same

There’s a place where we can go
See the world in a sine
The darkest place that I know

I came to forget you
I can’t forget you
I’ve had enough of this pain
I can’t stop to think now
I came to forget you
I can’t forget you
Losing myself in sin
These nights in Berlin

Another club means another chance
I’m an ami on the prowl
Trying to find a fan for me to fic
I’m not just some trick

There’s a place where we can go
See the world in a sine
The darkest place that I know

I came to forget you
I can’t forget you
I’ve had enough of this pain
I can’t stop to think now
I came to forget you
I can’t forget you
Losing myself in sin
These nights in Berlin

(Kelly/Green)

We went up for a drink one thing led to another
She asked if she was the one I lied like no other

Now it’s three a.m. and I slip out the front door
Hope I didn’t leave anything but her thighs sore

Escape is the only thing on my mind
Don’t get the feeling I’m being unkind
Don’t feel a thing, don’t feel a thing
A shot of pleasure isn’t worth a ring
It’s better than a drawn-out vicious end
No I won’t be your facebook friend

Family dinners and grim graceless trials
Late night texts jealousy and a corner smile

Watch me bail if your shit gets way too real
Real life will only kill your sex appeal

Escape is the only thing on my mind
Don’t get the feeling I’m being unkind
Don’t feel a thing, don’t feel a thing
A shot of pleasure isn’t worth a ring
It’s better than a drawn-out vicious end
No I won’t be your facebook friend

Escape is the only thing I can feel

The condemned man always gets a last meal

Don’t find your way, don’t find your way
We’re just actors in a badly written play
It’s better than a drawn-out vicious end
No I won’t be your fucking friend

It’s beyond me to be your friend
It’s beyond me to be your friend

(Kelly/Green)

It’s a punk pop mélange
It’s a Japanese movie
There are serpents
In this dapple-starred night
This is the Now

It’s a Jesus revival
Lazarus rebirthed
There are creatures
In a hollowed out Earth
This the Now

Rip the cord, kick the door
Break in the new age
Set up the new stage
City of crosses the future
Rip the cord, kick the door
Break in the new age
Set up the new stage
City of crosses the future

It’s a dreamstate mindfuck
Doves in slow motion
There are humans
Who aren’t what they seem
And this is the Now

Take a trip with me
Toss away both pills
There are roads unknown
To all mankind
You’re in the Now

Rip the cord, kick the door
Break in the new age
Set up the new stage
City of crosses the future
Rip the cord, kick the door
Break in the new age
Set up the new stage
City of crosses the future

(Kelly/Green)

You flick your hair and turn away
I need no second invitation
No reason to be afraid
It’s not that kind of situation

I feel you right through your skirt
Your breath is right against my neck
Bodies on high alert
There’s no magic but here’s the trick

What kind of hurt do you like
What psychological bleeding
What parts of you are you treating
What parts are you trying to hide from me

I heard a heavenly choir
The angels rang from high above
We may be lost in desire
But it sure as hell ain’t love

What kind of hurt do you like
What psychological bleeding
What parts of you are you treating
What parts are you trying to hide from me
 
What are you trying to hide from me

Recall the instructions
Set your ego afire
Is it the wrath or the clear light
Learn to remember destroy desire

Let’s be ourselves and drop the pretense
Say goodbye to reasoned good sense
The past is past, the evening goes
Trauma is all forgotten
The past is past, the future’s sowed
Trauma is all forgotten
This electric night might not ever end
It went far beyond what I’d ever intend
She fell asleep on the ride back home
And I caught myself wanting

Amnesia

Recall the instructions
Set your ego afire
Is it the wrath or the clear light
Learn to remember destroy desire

Days and nights seem in stasis
The broken hearts and bitter faces
The past is past, the evening goes
Trauma is all forgotten
The past is past, the future’s sowed
Trauma is all forgotten
This forbidden night will be chosen when
The brain’s last show overwhelms the end
And when her head fell on my shoulder
I caught myself desiring

Amnesia

Recall the instructions
Set your ego afire
Is it the wrath or the clear light
Learn to remember destroy desire