From the recording Dusk
Music & Lyrics by Lucy Martinez
Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
©2024 Sado-Domestics
Based on the short story, "Dusk" by T.J. Gerlach from the book CAMOUFLAGE (Lithic Press, 2018)
Lucy Martinez:
vocals and rubber bridge acoustic guitar
Chris Gleason:
All other instruments and sounds, audio engineering and mixing, video editing and production.
www.sadodomestics.com
Adapted from a short story by fiction writer, TJ Gerlach. This is the first of many Gerlach stories that are being turned into songs for the forthcoming Sado-Domestics album, CAMOUFLAGE. Gerlach’s book Camouflage employed a similar kind of metamorphosis, a loose version of a writing exercise typically called a die-cut. He read through books he admired and made a list of words used in that book. With this vocabulary, he wrote his own piece based on those words. Gerlach’s words blend with the voice of the original author and vice versa. Hence the term “Camouflage.” Sado-Domestics’ approach to the camouflage process varies from song to song. Some use many of Gerlach’s words and phrases verbatim and function as musical adaption of the original story. Others are more impressionistic, or, in the case of “Dusk,” tell the story from an alternative point of view.
Released March 18, 2024
Music & Lyrics by Lucy Martinez
Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
©2024 Sado-Domestics
Based on the short story, "Dusk" by T.J. Gerlach
from the book CAMOUFLAGE (Lithic Press, 2018)
Lucy Martinez:
vocals and rubber bridge acoustic guitar
Chris Gleason:
All other instruments and sounds, audio engineering and mixing, video editing and production.
Lyrics
Inside here I rest in the idea
That I’m saving you
But years pass as you struggle
Thinking I wish to leave this house
But the old place you showed me
Abandoned parts, metal hearts and motors
That beg for attention
To be placed in some fast car
Why do you think I want to leave
When the world is crashing down?
Maybe it was a fleeting thought You’d drown
without my strong arms pulling you out
Your silence is hurtful
I misunderstand everything about it
I’m different and useless
You told me to go away
But I lingered in the mystery
While you dwell in underground places
I go looking at stars
Maybe bring back the light from
Behind the clouds