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Forever Tonight

from Alter English by The Psychic Alliance

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I went to England for six months, having written 90% of this album. I felt we really just needed one more song to complete the record, but it just wasn't coming, and none of our other unrecorded tunes (ie Reptile world) seemed to fit. I worked on coming up with something the whole time we were there, but only managed one good tune, which seemed to fit in more for my other band, The Great Speckled Fritillary. Near the end of our stay, I woke up in Bristol with the line/tune "laissez faire you come on dear tonight" in my head. It had been playing on the radio in a dream I was having, and I managed to run downstairs and grab my guitar in time to catch the chord progression (which is basically "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis, which is appropriate, cuz you hear it every fucking day in the UK). I wanted to keep that Oasis vibe going, so I basically took the lyrics to Champagne Supernova and then wrote my own over the line spacing, and tried to keep my imagery fairly obtuse, just like 'ol Noel would have. So, thank you dream, and thank you, Gallagher Brothers for giving me the tools I needed to squeeze out that last big pop ballad that the album really needed to tie everything together.

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Forever Tonight

So laissez-faire you come on dear tonight
Forever tonight
Forever tonight
Don’t shy away from excessive force
You can’t outlast what you can’t endorse,
All right?
Forever tonight.

American me
Dreamt while fame was only fleeting
Yet scarcely believe
In a foe more fully beaten
We fade into the light of a renaissance
Your presence haunts me still

And it’s waiting in the wings just like an old, familiar feeling
Seems to be the ceiling’s caving in on you again
And you’re left without a friend, kind companion,
Or a lover by your side
Set down for the ages on those long forgotten pages
Written by the sages when the world was just
A twinkling in your eye
A fiction and a lie

So lies and fears, come, come on down tonight
Forever tonight
Forever tonight
Don’t burden me to burn my bed
I’ll eat a pomegranate in the land of the dead instead
Forever tonight
Abandoned we meet
In the spaces between sleeping
Soldiers in need
Freed while wounds are slowly weeping
We drift into the light of our own renaissance
Your presence haunts me still

And it’s waiting in the wings just like an old, familiar feeling
Seems to be the ceiling’s caving in on you again
And you’re left without a friend, kind companion,
Or a lover by your side
Set down for the ages on those long forgotten pages
Written by the sages when the world was just
A twinkling in your eye
A fiction or a lie

So come on, money man
Gonna wipe away the voices on the sidewalk
Cuz you can’t afford the revenant you’re coveting
You took it all back for the sound of crucifixion on the radio
My God!
Come on and take me to the fields where I used to roam
I know someone’s waiting on the telephone
My soul is calling out to you…

And it’s waiting in the wings just like an old, familiar feeling.
Seems to be the ceiling’s caving in on you again
And you’re left without a friend, kind companion,
Or a lover by your side
Set down for the ages on those long forgotten pages
Written by the sages when the world was just
A twinkling in your eye
A fiction or a lie..

So laissez-faire you come on dear tonight
Forever tonight
Forever tonight

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from Alter English, released May 1, 2020

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The Psychic Alliance Vancouver, British Columbia

The less you know about this band, the better. Rumor has it that they're very bad people, paranoid, misanthropic, frequently given to melancholy and intellectual dullards to boot. Stories of vicious infighting and naughtiness follow them like a black cloud, and the threat of immediate collapse is constant. Fortunately they look cool. ... more

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