Indie-Music.com:
"...a slow-cooked collection of divergent herbs and spices, drawing inspiration from Lou Reed, Wilco, Johnny Cash, and The Pixies."
The Brock Press:
"...seemed to challenge all genres at once, mixing a distinctive type of heavier folk rock with a hint of almost electronic-style pop."
Reviewer Magazine:
"OTD is a kind of neo-psychedelic rock band, with a certain quirkiness that recalls Guided by Voices, but they have gone their own way and followed their own muse and that is usually what brings out the best in people, this being no exception."
Credits
David Morley: vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, programming
Steve Dodd: lead guitars, keyboards, backing vocals, percussion, production
Artwork: Natalie Marsh and Colin Whitney
A pawn and a rook went out on a date,
The rook forsook nook for crook and took
Her on a blanket of cobwebs and soot
The pawn wanted lawn and yawned your wrong,
Cobwebs and soot and you'll never get there,
If you mean to do things obscene then it seems
My dreams fulfill and you just might get there.
Rolling eyes, deep sigh, no lie, the rook said
Goodbye you're too much trouble than you're worth
A cleft as he left her bereft a theft of all that's deft.
The King and the Queen were growing apart
The King everything lost found spring in a fling
And escaped her grasp for the night
The Queen awoke from a dream and screamed where it
Seemed the King plotted early destruction.
At night, the Knight, out of sight, brought her plight,
Sweet arsenic, a perpetual sleep,
The skill to kill her did thrill as it
Fulfilled the nightmares that suffered the Queen.
Now free, the King decreed her deeds weren't key.
The Bishop watched this roll out from afar,
A prod from God's divine rod exposed the fraud.
The King drew plans against him
Said look, the rook was the crook that snook and took
The Queen, then fingered the Bishop for treason,
Took the pawn so fond of the lawn brought the dawn
Of her reign as Queen over all
Enemies dead, hands red, now to war he said.
Johnny was a country boy far from scene went down
Always wanted somethin more, more than he'd ever found
He said, "I'd walk a thousand miles to escape this town."
One night he started walking down highways he did roam,
Two thousand sunsets from the place he called his home,
He said, "Surely this is where life goes down."
Two thousand sunsets, eight old pairs of shoes,
Every single one of 'em the soles are worn through,
Clean on through,
Clean on through,
Clean on through.
Johnny found a land of static twilight glare,
Everyone rushed somewhere but never ever got there,
He said, "these fields are paved, these trees are brick."
One night he started walking down dismal roads he roamed,
Two thousand dawns back to the place he called his home,
He said, "I ain't got nothing but I got space and time to roam."
Four thousand sunsets, sixteen pairs of shoes,
Every single one of 'em the soles are worn through,
Clean on through,
Clean on through,
Clean on through.
No one will laugh out loud, least of all not you,
You that left me here, left me for dead.
The sun I feel it scorching down, saps the last of me,
But I swear in death I'll still be your dread.
(Breathing/Dying)
No one will laugh out loud when at last I come for you
Cause death's an illness that can spread to you.
With my very last death, my curse is forever upon you
As I rise above as the sun sets.
And no one laughs out loud as these cold hands grasp you,
You that left me, left me for dead.
(Guitar solo)
No one will laugh out loud and least of all not you,
You that left me here, left me for dead.
Skipping this jumping rope of daisies,
I won't ever let you go tonight,
Leaping through flaming rings of roses,
I think everything's gonna' be all right.
Sliding down valleys, mountains conquered,
The horizon's always just in sight,
Riding red tractors into this sunset,
Shine reflecting all the light.
We've just got to escape this,
Float off and fade away.
We've just got to go insane,
The only way to remain sane.
One and two and three and forevermore,
Until this day is run.
Reaching out and grabbing at quasars,
And this vision's just begun.
Catching a solar flare let's ride it,
Way out of here and far beyond.
We've just got to escape this,
Float off and fade away.
We've just got to go insane,
The only way to remain sane.
How can I be happy when it's black as night inside?
How can I ever love you when it's myself I can't abide?
Fall flat on face, never getting things done,
How can I when I question before I've begun?
Everywhere around me the vampires are closing in
A foggy haze, dullest greys, this world I live in.
Specters haunt my days, ghosts consume the night,
In this state of disarray you want us to be all right?
I wish, I wish, I wish I could be happy,
I wish, I wish, I Goddamn wish I could be happy now,
I wiwh, I wish, I Fucking wish I could be happy.
Success here is etched in dust, erases with the wind,
Freedom, love, and happiness are lunatics that grinned,
Through this terror I try to show you everything I see,
But this nightmare's petrified, and no one hears but me.
I wish, I wish, I wish I could be happy,
I wish, I wish, I Goddamn wish I could be happy now,
I wiwh, I wish, I Fucking wish I could be happy.
Zoloft and Jesus, paxil, pet dogs,
Effexor and Remeron, faith in Luvox or God,
Lustral and capitalists, tricyclics, houses and cars,
Perdophran and Nardil, get a real job with great pay,
Noradrenaline, Dopamine joys, a needle with a toy.
Prozac and Deptram, alcohol and the consumer dream,
Trophanil, 2.5 kids, white picket fence, a doting wife.
I wish, I wish, I wish I could be happy,
I wish, I wish, I Goddamn wish I could be happy now,
I wiwh, I wish, I Fucking wish I could be happy.
Plastic sparkles and numbs the soul and talent's on the dole.
Endlessly spammed image arrays will grind ya down.
If you're vapid and useless you can make it here,
If you trump Trump you'll endear.
Eradicate the numbing, this change that's just begun,
Domesticate this dulling of everything under the sun.
Plastic sparkles, get me fool's gold, so fabricated and new,
I'll sell my soul, sell out my goals, just to get close to you.
Decimate this graying, a change that's just begun,
Placate this feeling that these days I think we're all run.
Eradicate the numbing, this change that's just begun,
Domesticate this dulling of everything under the sun.
Plastic sparkles and numbs the soul and talent's on the dole.
Don't feel like I'm living, don't feel like I'm dead,
Got nobody near me, voices in my head.
Ain't no one that knows, how much I am reeling,
I'm smiling while spiralling, hiding numbest feelings,
The colours have long vacated, they've left me this haze,
As vagrants they're leaving, monochromatic grey...
Chanting
I'm a voyeur that's watching this life from afar
Just jealously spitting venom to make you scarred
Dont feel like I'm living, don't feel like I'm dead,
This life it's just flatlined, no one cares what I've said...
Miles of boxes grow in rows and gobble up the horizon.
Used to be mountains there, way off in the distance,
North and East and South of here, the sky stretched bold and blue,
To white mist where it merged with the gold & green of the prairies.
Trickle down now sand's all gone, everything's undone,
Glaring down barrel of gun, our days are run,
Immortal this bubble bursts open, in this daily grind.
All the days you wait around, you think pigs will fly,
Just getting by.
Holidays, you never stress, you float through it all,
How ungrounded.
Most of these days you laze around, you think you'll get it done,
Now get down.
Thinking now sooner or later, my day will come,
Smashing dreams and innocent schemes, never will it come,
Sinking in, through, straight on down, ain't got no time.
All the days you wait around, you think pigs will fly,
Just getting by.
Holidays, you never stress, you float through it all,
How ungrounded.
Most of these days you laze around, you think you'll get it done,
Now get down.
Thinking back all about it, ain't got no time.
All the days you wait around, you think pigs will fly,
Just getting by.
Holidays, you never stress, you float through it all,
How ungrounded.
Most of these days you laze around, you think you'll get it done,
Now get down.
Let me tell you a story, about life's inconvenience,
Let me tell you a story about rigid opinions,
And if it all don't mean much to you, you will fade too,
And if you don't ever wake up...
I don't give a damn about anything at all,
Least of all you and your pride,
I don't give a damn about anything at all,
Least of all you and your lies,
I don't give a damn about anything at all,
Least of all if you live or die.
Let me tell you a story of heaven and hell merged on earth,
Where anything anyone's ever been's a smog on the breeze,
Where all the future's you are, fall well behind you,
And if you don't ever wake up...
I don't give a damn about anything at all,
Least of all you and your pride,
I don't give a damn about anything at all,
Least of all you and your lies,
I don't give a damn about anything at all,
Least of all if you live or die.
Not sure if you already voted in the Battle of the Bands but I'd LOVE your vote, if you check out my page and like what you hear (the winner gets a grand and I'm a close second in the running)
I've made some free downloads available.
Rock on~
Michelle Hotaling
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Ours To Destroy
Feb, 26 2007
Your main image is stunning.
Not sure if you already voted in the Battle of the Bands but I'd LOVE your vote, if you check out my page and like what you hear (the winner gets a grand and I'm a close second in the running)
I've made some free downloads available.
Rock on~
Michelle Hotaling