Monday 24 December 2012

Reborn - Lyrics

We've had a few people asking us for the lyrics for our new single 'Reborn'.
So here they are:


I thought I knew at least,
What freedom really means
A job that I hate
Work everyday
I could be wrong

I tried my best to tame
The wilderness inside
Every thought
Not thought out
I pretend to be over

Now I've finally woken up
To the beauty of the world
Through a love song
Through a love song that I heard
From the rivers and the birds

In the end it was the sounds
I found city life too loud
So away I walked
Through the urban sprawl
Ears to the ground
Trying to find myself some peace of mind

Now I've finally woken up
To the beauty of the world
Through a love song
Through a love song that I heard
From the rivers and the birds




Tuesday 18 December 2012

Return to the Sky

I woke up in the middle of the night with the Hitchcock style backwards scream. At first I couldn't remember what I had been dreaming, but then I turned and saw the book next to me. Ah yes, the horrors of the Kaiten. The manned suicide torpedo as described by David Mitchell in the excellent novel Number9Dream.


Towards the end of WW2 the Japanese were losing the war, so in what one can only describe as utter desperation they established the Japanese Special Attack Units, which basically consisted of 18-20 year-old men/boys who volunteered (!) for suicide missions.
The Kaiten was the underwater equivalent of the kamikaze plane. Kaiten translates literally as 'Return to the sky'.
The concept was simple. Place a mentally stable (important) young man inside a 9 meter torpedo and lock it from the outside. Deploy it from a submarine and let the young man steer the torpedo of death right into the side of a ship thus detonating the 300kg warhead and doing some serious damage.

Imagine that. What a nightmare.




Monday 3 December 2012

Reborn

We're pleased to announce our new single Reborn is out now!

It's from our forthcoming album, which is out in March, we'll have more details soon. But for now buy Reborn from iTunes.