One Thousand Lies

from Twelve Months by Curious Quail

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March's entry into the Twelve Months project! The randomized restrictions for this song were:
Key: A Major
Structure: Vocals must start song
Vibe: "Your aunt has secretly been an Alien this whole time."

lyrics

He said he was an orphan
I guess I should’ve known more then
But you know I want to see the best in everyone

She gave him places to sleep
Before the waters got too deep
But what happened after no one
could predict

She said he was an orphan
But clearly he wanted more than
Whatever sob story would suffice

Then she told us he'd be leavin
but we found his body in the evenin'
Oh what
The
Hell

She'd agonize
Over one thousand lies
That should've been drowned at sea
Before we were ever there

No one should have to live like this
Hiding just to exist
We’d all have been drowned at sea
Before he would even care

At first she tried to cover
Stories leading to another
But our faces clearly were not buyin' shit

She relented and went further
Explained that he was there to hurt her
And we had to admit she had
No choice

She said that there were others
Always changing their cover
And all they want to do is live in peace

But then a sound in the doorway
And she disappeared completely
Oh
What
Next?

We'd agonize
Over one thousand lies
That shoulda been drowned at sea
Before we were ever there
No one should have to live like this
Hiding just to exist
We'd all have been drowned at sea
If she were never there

credits

from Twelve Months, released February 12, 2019
Recorded at The Quailcave (San José, California), The Desert Art Colony (Palm Springs, California) and several bedrooms around San José and Mountain View, California
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mike Shirley-Donnelly at the Desert Art Colony
Music by Mike Shirley-Donnelly, Joey Guthrie and Alan Chen
Lyrics by Mike Shirley-Donnelly

Alan Chen - Violin
Joey Guthrie - Drums
Abraham Myers - Lead Guitar
Mike Shirley-Donnelly - Vocals, Guitar, Gameboys, Wurlitzer

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Curious Quail New Haven, Connecticut

Curious Quail is an orchestral + chiptune indie collective with members in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest and southern New England that mix fuzzy guitar rock, orchestral instrumentation and music made with Nintendo Gameboys.

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