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.


***

      

1). The Influx Of Brains


2.) Baited Breath

By Jeremiah Strickland

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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

 Ah  


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 

Ah



3.) Let Me Be Your Liquor Man

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

Originally performed by The Minni-Thins

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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 

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 

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 

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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


Down 

Looped sidewalk 

Sink 

Up 

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 

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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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

Copyright © Grandpa’s Chili Music


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 

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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 

Today, Satan 

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 

Today, Satan 

Satan, Today



11.) The Devil Can’t Dance

By Jeremiah Strickland

Originally performed by The Minni-Thins

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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 

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 

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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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 

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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  

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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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 

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

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 

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

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

Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music


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 

Copyright © 2020 Punk Rock Superhero Music 


except 

Hope & Water by Jason Wells 

Copyright © Grandpa’s Chili 

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 


ShinyRedNothing.com 


Shiny Red Nothing T-Shirts, Apparel, and more available at: www.Redbubble.com/people/shinyrednothing








All artwork and design by Jeremiah Strickland. Can Copyright © 2020 Jeremiah Strickland & Shiny Red Nothing

Comments