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The Unattended Ball

from REDWOOD SUMMER by Luke Janela

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It's funny that this track ended up right after Fever Saved Me now that I transcribe its lyrics: it's pretty much an anti pop song (though it is catchy in its own way). There is no chorus, and the lyrics are extremely abstract.

I like to write dream type lyrics. It helps me, like dreams can, make sense out of things in my life. The image of the "training of the bride" with the "girls lined against the wall with their eyelashes fluttering" is an example of that style of lyric. This never happened, but I can imagine dreaming it. And it has meaning, an almost archetypical meaning which I'll leave to you!

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There is no imagination and there is no way to tell:
which way to turn,
before the forming gale.

Our light is on the the setting and all things are on your mind,
as you sit underneath the park bench in the alleyways of time.

Your soul is like a safety net you wait for the ball to fall,
drinking wine with your friends at the unattended ball.

Changing out of your socks and shoes just to take a walk outside
while underneath the ballroom lights there's the training of the bride.
The girls line against the wall with their eyelashes fluttering.
You can't believe you're staring into the things you might have been;
you waited all of your life and you forgot to pocket the rose!
Though you may not recover from it, it doesn't matter.

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from REDWOOD SUMMER, released September 9, 2009
Molly Allis - Drums

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Luke Janela Los Angeles, California

Luke Janela has been writing and recording music for many moons. He is a classically trained cellist, guitarist and singer. He has fronted 15 albums. All bare a distinct character and tend to defy simple classification.

His music is urgent and innovative, moving from fol to punk to classical to electronic as a cohesive, contemporary whole ... more

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