SCARY RED NOTHING - SYMMETRY DEAD

October 03, 2024

SCARY RED NOTHING - SYMMETRY DEAD

Symmetry Dead is the new live album by America’s favorite Blackgrass band, Shiny Red Nothing. In order to sing along with your favorite songs, the CDC recommends that you get your digital copy for free here: https://archive.org/details/symmetry_dead

Although, of course, you can also listen on YouTube below!

CAUTION: When the following lyrics are read aloud on a Thursday morning at 2:32 A.M. during a full moon (in conjunction, of course, with the shedding of the blood of an albino black bear during the appropriate ritual fire dance within a circle drawn with red and yellow crayons on spread out newspapers from Wednesday morning), one may summon the beast, Lord Kifflex Skulldugger of Babylon, demon saint of Monday mornings and break room microwaves which haven’t been cleaned for more than a year.

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1). The Influx Of Brains

2.) Baited Breath

By Jeremiah Strickland

Please call and say come over when you're done with your homework and you wanna come play

I'll try and play it cool while my heart is racing like it wants to get out

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait

Ooh ooh

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait

It's like a Friday evening with the weakest promise of chocolate ice cream

When we can get together, it's like candy confection, it’s my favorite thing

So long

So sad

When you're gone

Oh, come back

We'll sing like this: Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait

Ooh ooh

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait

3.) Let Me Be Your Liquor Man

By Jeremiah Strickland with Aaron Strickland, Damon Green, & Kenny Sprinkle

Originally performed by The Minni-Thins

I go to the liquor store

Run out and go back for more

And in the evening when I leave the bar

I stop at the drive through Liquor store

Yeah

I got good genes in me

4.) A Wonderful Idea

5.) Lovely Mathematician

By Jeremiah Strickland

With thanks to Tim Harrell

she spoke that sweet language

killed me symmetry dead

she spoke that sweet language

killed me symmetry dead

she spoke that sweet language

killed me symmetry dead

now the vibrations from her tongue still bounce through my head

she shook her tambourine

invoked a sweet spirit

she shook her tambourine

invoked a sweet spirit

she shook her tambourine

invoked a sweet spirit

now my body’s left me writhing freely, making me sweat

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being

now my heart’s a beating constant of her equation

she worked out hoodoo ragtime

with femme caramel skin

she worked out hoodoo ragtime

with femme caramel skin

she worked out hoodoo ragtime

with femme caramel skin

now my two-beat pulse is racing out of syncopation

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being

now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation

she rode ellipse around me

friended me like a fire

she rode ellipse around me

friended me like a fire

she rode ellipse around me

friended me like a fire

now my satellite’s in orbit with copernican spin

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being

now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation

I said a lovely mathematician’s got me factored in

Symmetry Dead - Alternate Album Cover Art

6.) Casper

By Jeremiah Strickland, Stephanie Cole, TJ Meyering, & Jesse St John Wallace

Down

Looped sidewalk

Sink

Mad flailing

Cosmic leak

How you feel now?

(Girl, what’s happening?)

Out-

-Side closed windows

Hummingbirds drink

Fer-

-Mented berries

To test class glass

How you feel now?

(Girl, what’s happening?)

Dues ex machina

Trillions of hosts

Strutting

Down the road

I was not a friendly ghost

7.) Julia, On Her Prayer Stand

By Jeremiah Strickland with Kelly Jarvis & Stephanie Cole

Originally performed by The Minni-Thins

Julia, on her prayer stand

and she’s feeling disdain

and the troll where the doll was

is what the doll became

to understand

a man

has got to find a place

for plants

and he waters them

and then

he grows his own legs

she keeps asking where the door goes

well, dear, it opens a wall

go and open it right now

reveal the great hall

let loose the hose that knows

where all the words, they go

the point of this speech

the sequence of events is not coincidence

8.) Hope & Water

By Jason Wells

Originally performed by For Algernon

I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills

Temporarily relieve all of my ills

I need a tempo I can dance to

So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you

Now

Before I go

I just wanna let you know

Before I go

I think we should be perfectly honest

Each of us has a little dirt on us

All we need’s a little hope and water

To clean up myself after my self slaughter

Now

Before I go

I just wanna let you know

Before I go

All these drugs

Never make you disappear

They just make me smile

Through my time here

I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills

Temporarily relieve all of my ills

I need a tempo I can dance to

So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you

Now

Before I go

I just wanna let you know

Before I go

9.) Your Personal Number

Symmetry Dead’s Cinematic Single - MUSIC VIDEO

10.) Today, Satan!

By Jeremiah Strickland

Some folks say

Well, not today,

“Lord Satan, weep

Cause I got away

By luck's design

I've won this time

Fuck you, Satan

Not today”

But I won't

Live life that way

Just biding my time

'till Satan tempts yours and mine

No, I'll make a stand

Make a fist with my hand

Fuck you, Satan

Today!

Today, Satan

Satan, Today

When you unfurl your wings

I'm sorry to say that you're just not as scary as you think,

Satan

Today, Satan

Satan, Today

11.) The Devil Can’t Dance

By Jeremiah Strickland

Originally performed by The Minni-Thins

sweet is the day, when you pass it away

with your hips and your thighs and your feet and your legs

she surely can’t dance, but she surely can sway

what it’s really about is the lips on her face

it’s a sin, girl

when you sway, oh

it’s a sin

I do not know where she learned it all from

her daddy’s side or maybe her mom

sweet Jesus knows what I’m talking about

it’s the devil’s work when she comes around

it’s a sin, girl

when you sway, oh

it’s a sin

I heard the truth in an old country song

the preacher’s not right if his wife is all wrong

the devil can’t dance, but she surely can shake

the devil can’t dance, but she surely can sway

12.) Honey

By Jeremiah Strickland

with thanks to Dale Johnson

I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got some news

I’ve got a handmade shelter, the fire shows my moods

So, let’s get cozy

Your secret, show me

We’ll set it loose

Leena, feel the beat

Know where your center’s at

The fire takes your feet

Tiny crop circles form

Shadows, dust, and light

Play with my senses torn

Leena, feel the beat

Know where my center’s at

I can surely lead you on to the commotion

Leena, feel the beat

I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got no blues

We need no man-made currency to stock our rooms

So, let’s get cozy

Your secret, show me

We’ll set it loose

13.) A Wonderful Idea

14.) A Walk In The Park

By Jeremiah Strickland

Lucy plants herself amongst the soil and roots ‘till she knows the flora/fauna by name

The stickbugs in the leaves know what’s carried via breeze and shiver as they hear her name

It’s Lucy

Ah, Lucy, go go go

Come on, come on, come on

Ah, Lucy, no no no

Come on, come on, come on

Ah, Lucy, go go go

Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth

When you made me fall and scrape my knee

I just wiped the blood, that’s how love can be

Ah, Lucy, go go go

Come on, come on, come on

Ah, Lucy, no no no

Come on, come on, come on

Ah, Lucy, go go go

Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth

Symmetry Dead - Alternate Album Cover Art

15.) Becky, Go Home

By Jeremy Strickland & Aaron Strickland

Originally performed by The Minni-Thins

Becky, don't you know that's not the way that it’s done?

Russell’s chasing after Moses with his old shotgun

and Becky

Can’t you choose the one you love?

Terry’s not an honest man, he's stealing from the trucks at work

and Becky, please

Go home

You've been sleeping on the couch for days

Drinking all the beer and saying

You ain’t got no reason

You ain’t got no reason to go home

Sister liz is out there telling tales

She's at grandma’s, and she's got her on the telephone, calling Russell saying,

“Russell go and get your gun.

You won’t believe what our sweet little becky has gone and done!”

and Becky, please

Go home

You've been sleeping on the couch for days

Drinking all the beer and sayin’

Rusty’s kicked Dilaudids

He's calling on the phone and he's crying in my ear, saying,

“Man, I need my Becky

Man, I need my Becky

Man, I need my sweet becky at hooooome!”

16.) Eyes Forward

By Jeremiah Strickland

I woke up on Sunday morning

Tempted by the thought of sleeping in

But then you hooked your arm around me

To whisper,”Please,

Make eggs for me”

And so I did

With eyes forward

Snuck up on me in the kitchen

Moved by scarlet thoughts of lips to lips

And when you wrapped your arms around me,

I said, “Please,

set the table for me,

And call the kids”

With eyes forward

And when you wonder why

Makes me wonder how

All the memories we buried under the ground

Found their way back to town

After the sun has left

No light behind to reflect on

All the memories we left back eating our ground

In that tidied town

I won't find work as a pilot

Nor build a house or dig a grave

Loving you's fine work

And we're so good at doing our jobs almost every day

With eyes forward

17.) Have No Fear

18.) Chaos In The Yard

By Jeremiah Strickland with Michael Kuntz

The copper pipes went missing with the chaos in the yard

The cops they are a’ chasing someone; from the back, I saw

Flashing lights and footsteps that I hear as fingers point

Baggies found on wet grass prompt, “Put your hands up on the car”

Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard

Put your hands up on the car

Snowflakes are a’ falling on the SUV outside

I see they are all melting in familiar pop time

I locked my doors and windows, and I thought that I was safe

Blocked that spice of life, variety, the human race

Here’s the dream catcher your neighbor left behind

Here’s to the LSD that showed that painting’s smile

Here’s to the chaos in my mind and in the yard

Here’s to the ones downstairs, more susceptible than I

Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard

Put your hands up on the car

19.) Chorus Of The Zombie Apocalypso

By Jeremiah Strickland

Originally performed by The Minni-Thins

the zombie

apocalypso is the song

of this prudish

melody we’re calling “God”

and all his daughters

are conjuring up six pagan dogs with their priestesses with fiery red flesh headdresses on her

and all the muddy

rivers of this vital Earth

are over teeming

with six corpses giving birth

to awful armies

rape the world and giving head to the master; all the dead look simply understated in his arms

and I was certain to be the wander

certain certain certain certain

certain to be the wander

certain certain certain certain

certain to be the one

certainly the wandering eye of 666

keep me abreast, keep me abreast, keep me abreast

of the zombie

apocalypso is the song

of the prudish

melody we’re singing, God

Shiny Red Nothing - Symmetry Dead: An Electric Ashtray Session

*** SHINY RED NOTHING ***

SYMMETRY DEAD

AN ELECTRIC ASHTRAY SESSION

LIVE 10/07/2020

Recorded live in “Mexico” (a former mariachi band’s rehearsal spot in Holland, MI) where the Shinies practice, Symmetry Dead is an incendiary electric Ashtray Session, recorded with Stephanie’s cell phone (suspended precariously over an old tubular tin ashtray) on 10/07/2020.

credits

released November 18, 2020

Stephanie Cole - Vox, Percussion

Thelonious Juice (TJ) Meyering - Bass, Back-up Vox

Jeremiah Strickland - Vox, guitar, banjolele, organ

Jesse St. John Wallace - Drums, back-up Vox

All songs by Jeremiah Strickland

except

Hope & Water by Jason Wells

Originally performed by For Algernon

audio clips

Taken from Horror Host Morgus’ Godzilla episode. Public domain. Available here: archive.org/details/horrorHostMorgus-Godzilla

Bandcamp.com/foralgernon

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