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Be my booby Trap. Trip wire tumbler net pit lion, mushroom cloud on the horizon. Be my Armageddon. Roadside mine or letter bomb, a coma I won't wake up from.
Be the cause, the cause of my downfall.
Be my nemesis. Little big horn, Waterloo, the day they always said I'd rue. Be my cup of hemlock. Man-trap open underfoot, the big hole in my parachute.
Be the rocks, the rocks I'm shipwrecked on.
I don't want to escape or to second guess fate. When the fuse starts to burn, I'll just sit here and wait. Should the sirens call, no, I won't resist at all. And if I chance to fall, don't catch me.
Be my lookless leap. Ton of bricks banana skin, a game that I don't want to win. Be my coup de grace. Little death I can't stop chasing, fatal lapse in concentration.
Be the end, the end I'm heading for.
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Well, folks, we're at the three-quarters stage in our 'We Dream In 45' project, and we celebrate September with a new platter from The Dead West. "Be My Booby Trap" is the purest pop song I've written for a while. I was aiming for a glam rock stomper in a kind of Super Furry Animals style (and that's how I sold it to Marc and Ste) but it actually came out more like XTC, if they were a garage band. It's a masochistic love song, which is a more common sub-genre than you might think. The longing for someone who you know is going to be bad news for you in the end. L'Amour Fou, if you like. And of course it's also a shopping list song and, let's face it, an excuse to metaphor like crazy.
"Skye" is an indie pop tune with a country heart (or is it the other way around?) Difficult to tell and, anyway, it doesn't really matter. Let's just say hip-hip-hooray for the hybrid, the sui generis, the goddamn musical equivalent of a chimera. "Skye" is inspired, in turn, by the Band's "Music From Big Pink" and, like that great album, it demonstrates a freshness, vitality and willingness to ignore the rule book whenever it feels like it (while knowing exactly what those rules are and actually being quite fond of them, when all is said and done). Let's just say this tune wastes none of its 2 minutes and 50 seconds (just right, but still not long enough), mutating as it goes along to surprise you every time you listen to it and - I'll bet you what you like - when it ends, you'll just want to listen to it again. Which is exactly what I advise you to do. - David.
Download here : http://treehouseorchestrarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/be-my-booby-trap-skye
Or here : http://www.mediafire.com/?liqoncjcvqhgh94
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