Every time one door closes, another is blown off its hinges.
Jet Black Airlines is the current music project of Scott Thomas Smith aka theneonheart(.com)
The new, improved incarnation of Birds on Foot. See how we've evolved!? Anyway, I thought it was a cool name and it wasn't really a conscious this-to-that thing with the flight whatever, but JBA differs from BOF in that I'm using more types of instruments, I have a midi keyboard and some cool mixing software, and I'm experimenting with a lot of sounds to make some weird ass music hopefully.
Wander Us
To get to a place where there is trust
You may have to think of one
As set, in a way
In a place that gathers dust
Only when we kick up a fuss
If you wander off
I will gather stones to throw at cars and hate riding the bus
With you my ride
Gone away like so much gathering clouds turned around and turned
To rain and washed
flush, in a rain, windsheilds cleared and second blush
Wondering me, self into
a lonesome shot off mouth
I cannot trust
a loneliness
That I can’t bust
I’ve got that wander lust
To get with you and just take on the world
Like baggage for a honeymoon
Under a sun that knows too much
Where is the ocean liner
The silver beauty
The rippling wave
of blunder and mistrust
Rage Against The Machine - No Shelter (Godzilla Soundtrack, 1998)
Operation Ivy - Jaded (Energy, 1989)
My midi keys.
Jet Black Airlines - Dante Calypso
another song I made somewhat recently with the new software / midi keyboard
Has a bunch of my old songs as ‘Birds on Foot’
xo
This is from a bunch of lyrics that I haven’t done anything with yet for an imagined album called ‘Participatory Isolation Experiments’ that I might use for this February Album Writing Month.
