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Jason Rubero: Music

Skyhouse and Scarlet (2001)

(Jason Rubero)
January 12, 2001

Certainly a contender for the most-Beatlesque song I've ever done.  And, inexplicably, one of the best sounding.  I somehow got the balance right when recording and mixing this one.

I like the vocals, the lyrics (which I'll post one day), and all the psychedelic sounds like:

1) backwards sound effects

2) mellotron samples

3) phased / flanged vocals

4) fast-tremelo / chorus electric guitar notes

June cries -
Holds her tongue and runs for cover
This world -
Has stomped her toes again

She tries -
One escape and then another

So sad -
She takes it on the chin,
Tangled in the sin...

She will -
Rue all her indecisions
She casts -
Her pearls before the swine
Truly -
Sharp wit makes for swift incisions
And blood -
Flows like dimestore wine,
It happens all the time.

Standing there, aglow in love's display
There's no way, life can snuff you out...

I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I am yours and you are surely mine.

She can't -
Know the Skyhouse and the Scarlet
Until -
She seeks out the Hand
That gives -
Life to bones and love to harlot
Stay clear -
Of the shifting sand,
Which swallows promised land...

Standing there, aglow in love's display
There's no way, life can snuff you out...

I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I am yours and you are surely mine.