Sunday, February 24, 2008

Shadows Collide With People



It's John 4th solo album. The songs were writen during the By The Way Tour and recorded, for the first time, in a real studio.

With songs as 'Song To Sing When I'm Lonely' or 'The Slaughter', it's contains John's more reached songs as much by the lyrics as by the music.
It seems to be the favorite albums of critics too. But I'd say that we can't really trust critics. I even really doubt some critics even hear John's records before giving their opinion... To say, for example, that this album is a "draft" to Red Hot's album, it's completely non-sense ! We can't compare John's solo work and RHCP's album ! Moreover, John's solo records are real albums, which by no means,aren't drafts for RHCP's albums !

This is also the first time he collaborates with his multi-instrumentist friend, Josh Klinghoffer but it's isn't him who plays drums on the final version of Shadows because he felt too uncomfortable in a studio recording, in spite of this, we can anyway hear him sing in several songs (he sings the second part of the lyrics on 'Omission'). Frusciante also collaborates with Flea (the bass on 'The Slaughter') and Chad Smith (it's him who play drums in the final version of Shadows).

Most of the songs were first based on a acoustic demo (which we can freely download on his website), but there are also in the final version a lot of synthesizers. Some songs are even just made with it, as the aerial '23 Go In To End', which properly transcends you and makes you enter another dimension...
Two other songs are also synthesizers songs: 'Failure 33 Object' & '00ghost 27'.
For songs containing numbers, John said in an interview that 27 was the age he was when he spent his worst year. For 33 and 23, it was the age of him and Josh when they recorded the album (he wasn't aware of it at all when they made the record, he only realized that after the recording of the songs !).
This also contains rock songs ('Second Walk' & 'This Cold').

As I've already said before, most of the demos and the acoustic base of the songs can be freely downloaded on his website (besides of course the one's only made with synthesizers).
Frusciante decided to put it on his website to show the initial version with Josh Klinghoffer at the drums, as he have made a real work but just don't have recorded the final versions.
It is really interesting to see the base of these songs, and the acoustic ones are really raw, which makes it more intimate (the acoustics versions of 'Regret', 'The Slaughter' and 'Song To Sing When I'm Lonely' let us with a strange effect; you know this one when you can't do anything but just listen and listen again the song because it's inside you...).
To conclude, I'd say it's one of the album you must have in you're record collection.


Realease date: February 24, 2004 (I didn't have remarked that before, but have you seen that I've made this entry on Februrary 24th, 2008 ! So... I must say it... Happy Birthday Shadows Collide With People ! ^^)


Tracks:

01 Carvel
02 Omission
03 Regret
04 Ricky
05 Second Wlak
06 Every Person
07 00Ghost 27
08 Wednesday's Song
09 This Cold
10 Failure33 Object
11 Song To Sing When I'm Lonely
12 Time Goes Back
13 In Relief
14 Water
15 Cut-Out
16 Chances
17 23 Go In To End
18 The Slaughter


Lyrics:



Carvel

When I try I force it out
Never looking in only out
Now is the time for millions to lose
Never the same since I lost you
Running me out of town
Wishing the best around
Would only get off my back
Heaven receives you and throws you back
Sending a dummy to my God
Driving to eat a Carvel cake
Somewhere you know isn't where you think
Have you gone away already
All the good times are on their way
Up and down that's how energy stays alive
And I wouldn't have it any other way


Omission (the lyrics in brackets are the ones pronounced by Josh Klinghoffer)

Omit myself
(Take it from your eyes)
Omit myself as a favour of God
(All my rights are everyone's enemy)
Suffer fate cuz it's the only lift you've got
Dedicating all of before to now
Emphasizing these things you won't allow
Never now we need the other
(Centralize the force of rot)
In your life we take our cover
(Echoing what is not)
Going nowhere
(Take it from your eyes)
Going nowhere's the only clear whot
(All my rights are everyone's enemy)
At being somewhere the fates think you're not
Somewhere's hole to divides any way you want
Faking now faking who you are
Never now we need the other
(Centralize the force of rot)
In your life I'll take my cover
(Echoing what is not)
Never now I need the other
(And if you're suffering alot)
In your life we take our cover
(Try being someone you're not)

Regret

I regret my past
Stay alone


Ricky

I was afraid to be me
Be anything you want to be
I don't blame my week
For my not being able to speak
Clearly about things I've said before
And if it's light outside night will fall
And if it's life resolves
Everywhere you are in a maze is a lie
Anywhere you are on a page you still go to the right
Anytime there's no ground below you you're in the sky
Anytime you're afraid it's gonna be alright
I was a flame in the night
I heard what I wanted to hear
And the moment I disappeared
I grew the size of all outside
Cuz I became one with the night
And if it's real it's not all there is
There's a lot in what appears not to be there at all
And you can function as someone besides who you are


Second Walk

I take a second walk
Down the street of fame
I've paid it off and paid for it again
All these miserable feelings never end
But to fall and be down's something I transcend
I've been a meal of mine
And slid down my throat
And all I'm facing is one more way to go
Died so many times and then reappeared
All death looks like to me is a word that causes fear
I'm taking my place
In a world with different space
No time at all except how you move
Be who you are
Do what you do
Not win or lose


Every Person

You take me by the hand
A hand's all I feel right now
It's all I am
It's all that I am
You think that I'm a man
I beg to differ
For I am her as much as I'm me
You know this moment in time
Is all my life
Every day is each day that's past
Every person alive is everyone who's died
A ship out in the distance
Is here if I draw it
Multiply time by letting it go by
You paint a star
You give many years ago
New life and it appreciates it
You know this moment in time
Is all my life
Every day is each day that's past
Every person alive is everyone who's died


-00Ghost27 (instrumental)



Wednesday's Song

You'll make it through the day
See things another way and behold
Listen to Wednesday's song
This night you go home alone
How the sane go upright
How you look another night
You're back under my hat
And even knowing that you're a whore
Nothing ever meant more
Than switching rooms through a door
Out into another one
Frames flash inward
And you know
I have seen the world enough
I've drowned in my thoughts a lot
Deep in rains that swirl above
I canceled heaven I concede
Another word to say
When everything's O.K you go down
And pulling up the slack
And never coming back
An alarm
Ringing to set the sun
No one ever becomes
What others thought they should've been
Inside they're what they can see
You know I do miss this girl
To show I am in a swirl of sun
Being what I've got
The joy
I canceled heaven I concede
Everything that I believe
I canceled heaven I concede


This Cold

I don't need a ride to arrive
I don't feel approached any time
If you feel a fader on a decline
Out of all you've ever been
And you won't need time
You never need time
I don't need every God
You see every ghost am I
Have we found a phase to be out of
Transfer all your thoughts to me
And you won't need live
We don't need love
I don't need this sin to go
Down to where all forevers flow
Every fate released is revealed slow
Never talking back to me
Say it out loud
I feel this cold
I never stay and I never go



Failure33Object (instrumental)


Song To Sing When I'm Lonely

A song to play when I'm lonely
Win and never play a game again
No one to face when I'm falling
Holding tight the dreams that never end
I'll be you
I do
I'll be you
No one's afraid to be called by another name
No one dares to be put down where they don't belong
Nowhere's anyone's reason
Everything dying and leaving
Out with these faults and you make me a baby
Faking a movement by no one seeing it
No one always finds peace flung
No one chooses to beat my pride down
Symbols pierce right through me
People fail to be drawn up
Sunlight to face accumulates
Loving pain to be clung to
By luminous bodies
Only waiting for long signs to be wrong
And true to us
Out of place in my own time
Drowning thinking that I'm dry
Holding on to facts that we'll never be proven
Faking an actioooon cuz no one's looking
Hello when I'm crashing
Feeling nothing when my life's flashing before my eyes
You should've threw me down
Is the content so much


Time Goes Back

These things'll go slowly by
These things
They'll be where no one would think
And when given this life
I ought've thanked you all who will take it away
I notice that you're fine
Setting up beside wherever turns a blind eye
And solemn phase
And you belong to two times at once
My radio's my heart
We live as one
Two ways at once
I know the waves I form
I know the way I won't become
These still places that are gone by
Believe they're somewhere else
(Believe they're somebody else)

Jumping in the mind of a passerby
And being replaced like times files
Another wasted flaw
Going up against the endless law
I'm flown through a mirror
Almost disappearing
I glow faintly
You know this is nobody's life
I saw the days I lost
Hiding behind tomorrow's costs
Time going back



In Relief


To seem you're in me and over me
Relief in all things
And all the things shoot through me
And all the things shoot through me
Wherever you are
To seem you're a dream when you never stop
And we ask you what you are
Belief as one with what you believe in
Travel slowly
Move in circles
You know time grows old in reverse
Life as a thing that began
And was magnified
And made the first and the last one
To mean everything you never say
Every single thing going every way
When your leader's gone
He means to make you strong
He never went away
Cuz what you need you are


Water

Water inside
We're all in water
Water we climb and run through it
Water inside
We're all in water
Reaching inside of a big death bag
When you go to danger
Ends are met and live
Where they are happens to be where they have been
When you lower placement
The strong get stronger

Where you are and when you waste there's a whip hitting you
Water insideWe'reall in water
Water we climb and run through it
Water inside
We're all in water
Reaching inside of a big death bag
Everytime I fake it
Devils crawl thru me
I'm ashamed when I ignore the voices that agree
Get us all together

Where we all wish for the same thing
It's only lie to recall believing your body
Water inside
We're all in water
Water we climb and run through it
Water inside
We're all in water
Reaching inside of a big death bagWater inside
We're all in water
Water we climb and run through it
Water inside
We're all in water
Reach inside of a bag


Cut-Out

Your number fakes coming along without you
Knowing a shift took place
Your father hooks a wing about you
If you flail this broken sword around you'll
Cut nothing up
Again we'll face these things when they're dead issues
Moments take each others place
Born and forgotten the same way
Hey, I'll pay you to cut me out
A blower of hot flesh is a baby
That's the first white stuff I sucked
To feed this open fire with a windy day
Moments take each others place
Born and forgotten the same way
Never knowing who you are


Chances

This is the time to die
I'm not someone on whom to rely
Chances come and chances go
This is letting go
I feel the tightening of the dawn
The creation of something I've sung
No one goes back 'cause they're all there
Are you everywhere
Becoming who you think you are
In order to do your part
In the multi-dimensional scheme
You'll know what I mean
This is the time to die
I'm not someone on whom to rely
Chances come and chances go
This is letting you know
I'm almost where I'll never be
This cutting off of fare like a string
A line that falls to the floor
And I'm not me anymore



23 Go In To End (instrumental)


The Slaughter

I'll know her face a mile away
You'll be there in the slaughter
Freeing me when I'm cornered
Being arrested by the mind cops
They're the only ones worth changing what you do for
And I try to be in line
And what it's good for there's no telling
It's blood
It's a flood
I'll know her face a mile away
She'll take me through that gate
Living there in a flower
You wouldn't have made it without her
Though she seems to stay in one place
She grows with your life
So cry for time
What's slow is fast at the same time
It comes to life
And if it dies
You'd never notice cuz it
It slides as it climbs
I'll know her face a mile away
And I'll know my pains a life away


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