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A Private Encyclopaedia
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by The Jesus Cleaver
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Do Something For Me
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- about
- Based in Brisbane, Australia, The Jesus Cleaver is the creative vehicle of singer/songwriter John P Shea. The debut album, "A Private Encyclopaedia", features local special guests including "[3]" on bass guitar, and backing vocalists Angie Draper and Tanya Quinlan.
The band have combined vivid and emotive lyrics with a lush, beautifully disturbing atmosphere to confound easy genrification. Employing electronic and classical elements in their music, The Jesus Cleaver maintain a definitive musical edge with driving percussion and infectious bass lines. This concentration of moods is the expression of a dark alternative band decidedly out of place in the sub-tropical climes of "the Sunshine State".
From fast-paced, bass-heavy tracks to quirky and irreverent, to devastating emotionalism, The Jesus Cleaver explore a broad range of sounds and styles, with a dark romantic theme underscoring the ten original tracks on the debut album. - credits
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released 18 May 2010
Written and produced by John P Shea.
Vocals: John P Shea
Backing Vocals: Angie Draper, Tanya Quinlan (Track 6)
Bass Guitar: John P Shea (Tracks 3, 8, 9, 10), [3] (Tracks 1,2)
Electric Guitar: John P Shea (Tracks 2, 3, 4, 8)
Keyboards and Percussion (Programming, Live Performance, Samples): John P Shea
Additional Location Recordings: John P Shea (Track 1, Beach at Sunshine Coast; Track 4, Changing of the Guard at Prague Castle; Track 10, Bats inside Capricorn Caves)
Additional Arrangements: Bass Guitar: [3] (Tracks 1, 2, 9, 10), Backing Vocals: Tanya Quinlan (Track 6)
Additional Music: Traditional (Track 4 Introduction) - tags
- tags: australian dark alternative electro indie alternative darkwave electronica gothic industrial synthpop Brisbane
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- Track Name: Please Replia
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PLEASE REPLIA
Like birds in a puddle
I bathe in your sickness
And the water falls down
And covers me in the thought of you
And I'm waiting to cry
I climb up higher
Always the wrong way
So I fall into nothing
And hope I can stay
The rain flows out of me
Killing the ants on me
I drown them in blood lost down to the floor
And the water falls down
And covers me in the memory of you
I call to your heart
Calling to nobody
Alone in the air
Your voice is brought to me
Oh please
Please, oh please
Please Replia
Please Replia
Please Replia
I cannot escape you
Please Replia - Track Name: Vulnerable To Falling
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VULNERABLE TO FALLING
It looks so well on you
But I'm not a well boy
Knew it so perfectly
That deepest memory
That keeps me cold beneath my skin
Touch me and whisper
At last I hear your voice
In the final silent breath
And stay like this forever
Forever
Forever
Time has changed your skin
But nothing has changed my heart
I'm vulnerable to falling
And the hand in hand
I pray for sedation
And nothing is within
I'm vulnerable to falling - Track Name: Luscious
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LUSCIOUS
My heart, an hourglass
Kiss for an empty table
Kiss for the masquerade
The lost time
The last words ever spoken
Were yours
Your luscious broken eyes
The last time
But it never ends
Your voice, my blood and I
Fall like a city on melting ice
Into your...
To the end
One more kiss
Now words are an enemy
My whole army's now disarmed
The cold things feel the same
And all the words mean nothing
The only place to hide
Your luscious broken eyes
Into your...
Leave you with nothing
I have nothing more to give
(Twist like sin
I lost something
I lost myself)
Into your - Track Name: Oh Darling
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OH DARLING
Oh darling
Oh darling
Oh darling
I've seen
The end
That must come - Track Name: Idol
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IDOL
(Instrumental) - Track Name: Rend
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REND
For the fruit of the tree she came
To gather the fallen ones
And as she cried for victory
The dead lay all around
And in her arms the chosen lay
In her arms the chosen stayed
"We'll waste no time"
She breathed,
"We'll never weep for them
"But let them rest
"And we will meet again"
"We'll never sleep
"We'll never weep
"We'll never breathe again
"But let them rest
"And we will meet again"
January and winter passed
All this time alone
To never hear that sound again
To never see you lost again
To never be so close again
I would sell the world to misery
And give them even more - Track Name: Antecedents
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ANTECEDENTS
You wouldn't come out
So I had to tear you
And you make the strangest shapes
Of blood upon my pillow
And I held your pieces in my hand
I waited for you to tell everything
The only time that scent is noticed
Is when you get it on my skin
And is this alright to wear today?
I knew I would like you
If you had to get entangled
So get down into your water
You burn like a strawberry
Just like that in my mouth
And skin so white and clear
And the door was closed
But everything was there
Your clothes have disappeared
Into the floor, into the room
And we kiss to stay alive
"How does that feel?"
Your clothes have disappeared
Into the floor, into the room
And we breathe to stay alive
"How does that feel?" - Track Name: Ascension
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ASCENSION
You were in my water
A needle through my skin
A towel and a telephone
But we were not alone
And things were nearer
When you were clearer
And moonlight faces
Remember swinging places
In this encyclopaedia of you
The silence shared
I watch you sleep
From above your bed
Your precious beauty left unbled
And things were clearer
When you were nearer
And the doors were open
The slowly broken
In this encyclopaedia of you
The words unspoken
The passion lost
For the things I fought
Left with you my only thought
The last things left quite pleasantly
Ending always more fatally
So promise things that never end
Leave me with presents I'll never send - Track Name: Still Life Swimming
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STILL LIFE SWIMMING
Still life swimming
Heart movement dimming
Fear is floating
Through the rivers of my mind
Some unknown pressure
Is squeezing it through
And the one thing on my mind tonight
Is what remembers you
Like a hundred hundred cups of tea
You were swirling
You were dreaming
Through what was then called me
And I was living
When I was on your mind
And I was diving into life
Instead of dying - Track Name: Do Something For Me
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DO SOMETHING FOR ME
And we get old
And you get old
Wither and die
You will wither and die
With nothing delivered
With nothing achieved
Do something for me
Do something for me
Burn all the stars
Boil every sea
For a certain remembrance
Will never leave me
Do something for me
Do something for me
Into the sea of my arms she will fall
Into the sea of my arms she will fall
For her ship will be lost
Into the sea of my world
Do something for me
Do something for me
