About 'My Heart (A Furnace)' |
The lyrics are pretty extreme-sounding, so let me give you a little background for them in the hopes of enlightening you on just what was going through my head when writing them.It's about a struggle ...
Posted by Plastic Shapes on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:11:00 PST |
About "Haiku" |
This song was inspired by a haiku by the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho:Summer grassesAll that remains of a great soldierImperial dreamsI've always been interested in both military history as well as Japa...
Posted by Plastic Shapes on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:47:00 PST |
About "You're All The Same" |
I think everyone knows an extremist of one sort or another. You know, the kind of individual who subscribes to very passionate and invariably narrow-minded opinions. These are the people who are only ...
Posted by Plastic Shapes on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:41:00 PST |
About 'Crowds Of Tyburn' |
Death sells, just ask the people of Tyburn!The village of Tyburn, Middlesex (near London) will perhaps always be remembered as the site for public hangings, which had occured in the town for centuries...
Posted by Plastic Shapes on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:11:00 PST |
About 'Mary Blimey' |
My wife, whom is a nurse, told me of a patient at her hopsital who was beaten severly by her creep husband. She was so badly beaten that he lower lip was removed, as well as half of her brain. Now I c...
Posted by Plastic Shapes on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:45:00 PST |
About VT-8 |
Well, this song certainly doesn't glorify war. In fact, it's very much the contrary. It's about the crews of Torpedo Squadron 8 during the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942. In order to understand this s...
Posted by Plastic Shapes on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:17:00 PST |
About 'Fat Americans' |
Well, this song is about a lot of things...First off, in choosing a title for the song, I had no intentions of sounding cruel or making fun of anyone. It's not about that at all. The statement "Fat Am...
Posted by Plastic Shapes on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:24:00 PST |
