Monorail

by Panda Transport

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04:14
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04:11
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04:14
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released 01 February 2011
Erin Barbour (human trumpet Monorail, percussion Freakshow), Matt Wyatt/Rhythm Mantis Sound (recorded & created percussion Monorail), James McLaughlin tracked percussion on Freakshow.

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tags: alternative indie acoustic dreamy electro experimental female vocal indie lounge monorail pop

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French guy, American girl duo.
Ingredients and Tools: jazzy cool vox, mini synths, Stylophone, Tenori, ... more Theremin.
If you like: Air, Feist, Nouvelle Vague, Bird and the Bee, french cuisine, dark chocolate, bicycles with baskets, good wine
Live: USA- NYC, LA, Chicago, DC, Dallas EUROPE: Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Malmö
Placement: Grey's Anatomy, NBC, Les InRocks, Tracks less

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Track Name: Monorail
Monorail
Around the world…
Verse 1:

I’m planning a voyage around the world but it’s gonna take more than 80 days.
I’m gonna bring a cockleshell, a fedora made of felt, and a mood ring, I’ve got one for everyday.
I’ve booked a ticket on a monorail!, and I’m leaving today.
I‘ve got my own sleeping car that comes with petit dejeuner.
I’ll have a window seat let my head vibrate against the glass.
eat trolley fare, and sneak up to photograph the little dogs up in premiere class
“no little dogs in second class”
Verse 2:
There’s only ONE thing more I’d like to install in my très mignon sleeping car
I invite you to share my escapade, can you not think of a better accolade?
I’ve booked passage on a monorail, and I ‘m leaving today.
I‘ve got my own sleeping car that comes with petit dejeuner.
And every time the train comes to a halt
We’ll pop off the rail, see what this wicked worlds’ about
In between destinations is where I wanna be
Say you will, monorail with me

and then around the world
around the world
Track Name: Saint's revel
Saint’s revel
V
Saint therese, she was a carmelite
(And) she had her doubts about the afterlife
She said: sing me a song to see me through
(For) you don’t know what darkness I am plunged into
Her sisters they made her proud, they backed her up
Raised their voices (eyes) to the clouds:
Don’t underestimate her soul
Don’t underestimate her
V
brother paul of the cross
Did not live a life free from pain
His dark(est) night lasted 45 years
Urging him to knees and pleading in vein:
he said-
Purify my sight, restore me soul
While I learn to let it go
All my virtue and vice, knowing wrong from right
This is the dark night of my soul
Extra words (sung in swarthy english gallager canter):
There are 10 steps on the ladder of mystical love
And if you fall with help from below, you will find help from above
End chorus
Don’t underestimate my soul
Don’t underestimate your soul
Track Name: Up the disco
Up the disco

Verse 1

Here! The atmosphere is a full scale replication
Of a standardized map of the imagination
if you set your eyes to the widest aperture
You get a better Dazzle factor, mais oui, for sure
Verse 2

Some seek forever looking for resurrection
I found mine in the hotel imagination
Every night ambrosia’s served under the stars
I like mine with a shot of chartreuse and a bit of wonderbar


Chorus

I’d love to trust those who live next to me
But I’d be a fool with my eyes covered snug and wooly
I fear they’re swimming in a gene pool a bit too shallow
Like action figures who like their culture up the disco


Chasing me are light-soaked dreams, points of restoration
It’s a journey that requires constant modification
De-Marked by over-hyped and exposed scary skull and crossbones
But with fuchsia lenses, the world’s so dynamite. It’s high tone

chorus 4 times
Track Name: Freakshow
Freak show


I’ve learned to keep it together all my life
I find the price of being of civilise way too high
Like a flower.s dna in le jardin de luxembourg
Or the way each flame licks the sky oh how I love to watch them burn
I am like those metaphors just like you
Everyone of us is different even dead people too
It’s not so freaky at all to want to sing my own song
Cuz life’s not very long
I’m a freakshow and it’s time you should know
I’m gonna let my freak flag fly
Some of us like to dress up like machines
Amd roboticize just the same
I find this more than tragic
It hurts my heart and brain
I think it’s much nice to be a rainbow warrior
And to try and convince the machines to
Have fun and not be such a bore
I’m a freakshow and it’s time you should know
I’m gonna let my freakflag fly

cliche scatting
Track Name: Cicadas in stereo
Cicadas in stereo

v1:
Under a metallic moon where the Stars
carousel round the room there are heard
Les cigalles, cicadas in stereo
v2:
Solar powered tiki torches smash
blood and honey shadows
Hidden in a velvet flush
A study in chiaroscuro
chorus:
I feel extraordinary
I’m living In a place let’s call it here
My heart is beating like a boom boom box
Because I want to fuck everything that I fear
One day it may come into question
Did I get anything out of life’s lessons
Maybe no, but do I know how to spoon crème brulee
My love you will adore her
She Meets me at paddy’s corner
If that’s a no go-go, we bang a ball
At ping pong whiskey and cassoulet
chorus:
I feel extraordinary
I’m living In a place let’s call it here
My heart is beating like a boom boom box
Because I want to fuck everything that I fear
Love is electric in nature
I am a boy of a nature
I’m diggin it deep, diggin down low, like a prairie dog
Track Name: Dark Horse
Oh sweet lord what have I done
Got next to heaven so I turned to run
Struck a pose as the days slipped pass
My dirty little secret was I thought I could go back
I ran away when life started to taste so sweet
Now it’s gone and betrayal gets her song

Now I get drunk in bars called regret and pain
Comforting myself I’ll never feel such warmth again
Possession is a dark horse indeed
She’ll lure you with her charms and keep you on your knees
that flag of virtue that i did dare to wave, let it burn
cast the ashes on my grave

i don't invest too much into the afterlife
because here on earth is where we create paradise
if you find someone to take you there
you better better go, cuz the chance is rare
I ran away to make it easier now
let it burn and cast the ashes on my grave


easier now, make it easier now