2008-10-28 - Daytrotter, Rock Island
On Stage :
Setlist :
this is still my world
temporary people
faith
dead savior
turn you on
Recording :
2008-10-28 Daytrotter
Joseph commented on the five tracks recorded:
First song : This Is Still Your World (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts) unreleased
Now it’s called “This Is Still My World”
But that’s cuz it’s changed since then
But that’s the right title for what it was then
(so, don’t change it)
I love fluidity
I resist fixing anything
Into one form or one pose or one stance
Songs are people
They talk like people
They eat like people
They dance like people
They dress like people
They live and they die like people
When we recorded this song in yer studio
It was brand new
Like a super model or a super hero
Like the greatest villain that ever lived
Like the captain of the football teem
Or an effigy of the other teams mascot
Hanging and burning
Jen Turner tricked me into singing it
Before it was ready
And I knew better but went along with it anyway
As I am helpless to resist a powerful woman such as she
And she wanted to play one of yer amazing old keyboards
And who could stop a thing like that?
Second song : Temporary People (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
yes we are all that
thank god and so sad
in old paintings from the fourteen hundreds
like the birth of Venus
her expression is soft and sad
and when one asks why
it is because
just then man
began to enjoy himself
but with that enjoyment came the realization
that he and she
will lose youth
and life
so there is the reason for that look
in so many of those great old masterpieces
Third song : Faith (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
this is the antidote
to that expression
the surrender of everything
and the embrace of the eternal
the ultimate punk rock nihilism
born into god head
and freed by enlightenment
but only after you trust that someone will catch you when you fall backwards
even tho no one is behind you
Fourth song : Dead Savior (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
I just like the line
Like a dead savior one that never rises
This is the opposite view from the song above
A celebration of faithlessness
Which is a worthy celebration too
For part of you
Is most certainly abandoned here
Part of you must burn
Without anyone lending a hand
Part of you is meant to die
If not for someone else’s sins
Then at least for yer own
Fifth song : Turn You On (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
Session for Daytrotter recorded with the Lonely Astronauts.
Sound engineering by Patrick Stolley.
Sound engineering by Patrick Stolley.
Setlist :
this is still my world
temporary people
faith
dead savior
turn you on
Recording :
2008-10-28 Daytrotter
Joseph commented on the five tracks recorded:
First song : This Is Still Your World (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts) unreleased
Now it’s called “This Is Still My World”
But that’s cuz it’s changed since then
But that’s the right title for what it was then
(so, don’t change it)
I love fluidity
I resist fixing anything
Into one form or one pose or one stance
Songs are people
They talk like people
They eat like people
They dance like people
They dress like people
They live and they die like people
When we recorded this song in yer studio
It was brand new
Like a super model or a super hero
Like the greatest villain that ever lived
Like the captain of the football teem
Or an effigy of the other teams mascot
Hanging and burning
Jen Turner tricked me into singing it
Before it was ready
And I knew better but went along with it anyway
As I am helpless to resist a powerful woman such as she
And she wanted to play one of yer amazing old keyboards
And who could stop a thing like that?
Second song : Temporary People (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
yes we are all that
thank god and so sad
in old paintings from the fourteen hundreds
like the birth of Venus
her expression is soft and sad
and when one asks why
it is because
just then man
began to enjoy himself
but with that enjoyment came the realization
that he and she
will lose youth
and life
so there is the reason for that look
in so many of those great old masterpieces
Third song : Faith (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
this is the antidote
to that expression
the surrender of everything
and the embrace of the eternal
the ultimate punk rock nihilism
born into god head
and freed by enlightenment
but only after you trust that someone will catch you when you fall backwards
even tho no one is behind you
Fourth song : Dead Savior (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
I just like the line
Like a dead savior one that never rises
This is the opposite view from the song above
A celebration of faithlessness
Which is a worthy celebration too
For part of you
Is most certainly abandoned here
Part of you must burn
Without anyone lending a hand
Part of you is meant to die
If not for someone else’s sins
Then at least for yer own
Fifth song : Turn You On (Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts)
I wrote it in fifteen minutes stoned in the Diamond Room
Back when I used to smoke the evil weed
And play bingo with the dead
One night walking thru the city with my sister
After a gig at a bookshop
She told me it made her cry
Now every time I sing it
I sing it to her.
Back when I used to smoke the evil weed
And play bingo with the dead
One night walking thru the city with my sister
After a gig at a bookshop
She told me it made her cry
Now every time I sing it
I sing it to her.
