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Carcinogenic Kiss

from Gravitational Collapse (Single) by Golden Veins

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Ryan gave me this song, which at the time was more of a thrashy, punky thing, and asked me to write a mean-spirited kiss-off lyric to it. I had this lyric for awhile called “My Touch Is Cancerous”, and since nothing had been done with it up til then I scrapped it for parts and used the best phrases for this. Of course I couldn’t make it a full-on “screw you” thing, it had to be kind of sad too. We practiced “Kiss” in its original form for awhile and played it live twice, but we didn’t think it quite worked. We basically rebuilt it from the bottom up into the robo-funk thing it is now. The coda of just guitar and vocals, however, is from the original.

-G.

lyrics

Prior to being a pariah to you

I could tell by the sell-by date

This was all preordained

This was all fate

Inexplicably

I tried to go against my programming

But to no avail

So I embraced the taste of evil

Carcinogenic kiss

Blissfully applied

Carcinogenic kiss

To your lips

Prior to being this unkempt wreck

You abandoned at your door

I still held out hope

We could cope with the hand we were dealt

But you felt wrong

Now my wastrel ways and general malaise

Have passed away

Motivation renewed

I’ll raze you if I can’t have you

Carcinogenic kiss

Blissfully applied

Carcinogenic kiss

To your lips

I have just discovered

That my touch is cancerous

In love and lust

Between us now

I’d hoped somehow…

credits

from Gravitational Collapse (Single), released September 14, 2010
Written by GOODE/MEIER/O’GARA/SKRDLANT
Produced by GOLDEN VEINS
Engineered & Mixed by SCOTT O’GARA
Recorded at SMOKING GUNS STUDIOS, IOWA CITY, IA 2009/2010
Mastered by DOUG VAN SLOUN
Artwork by UCIEL

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