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Songs (You give on a Whim)

by The Barking Spiders

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    Art Direction/Photography by Jordan Parr

    Thanks to the actors : Gustave Fiere, Eva Guionnet, Augustin DeWinter and Matéo Martin Lombard.

    Layout by Julien Altounian

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1.
Moments caught in a cage of millions A swarm of beings just like you All coming to take your glory And emulate your idols Watching by all those eyes Looking back at me Songs you give on a whim Where d'you ever begin to save the day? Who cares, if no one's safe anyway? Words you give as a liar Everyone you desire turns away Bright? Slight Fear sleeps Watching by all those eyes Songs you give on a whim Where d'you ever begin to save the day? Who cares, if no one's safe anyway? Words you give as a liar Everyone you desire turns away ×2
2.
Wasted Words 04:28
Five wasted words, told some lies Sat at the edge of crimson skies Watched so many walk away These words would've made them stay Using all those moves, practiced all those lines Why so many times? Try to keep it safe, ahhh Can't always keep the chase (Building castles in my head) Building castles in my head (Ending up with an empty chest) There's a trap on the highway Never seem to give the best (Slower Tempo) And talk about the day You start to sing for real Try to pretend 'till the end Though it doesn't work, start again Building on bones, putting them Putting them on thrones I will never believe in that Try to pretend 'till the end Though it doesn't work, start again Building on bones, putting them Putting them on thrones I will never believe in that (I will never believe in that) Oh no, a way out (Never seem to give the best) Try to keep it safe, ahhh Can't always keep the chase (Burning castles in my head) Burning castles in my head (Ending up with an empty chest ) There's a trap on the highway Burning castles in my head (Castles in my head) Oooh Burning castles in my head (Castles in my head) Oooh Burning castles in my head (Castles in my head) Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Never seem to give the best to them
3.
I smile to people, but I don't seem to I smile to people, and they seem so rude I watch how they run all for nothing I smile to people,and they smile to their cereal Happy foreigners, proud of it too Grumpy locals all around I watch how they run all for nothing No smirk in the air Ahh "I'm on my tree" "Get out of my tree" "And if you don't" And I thank the shrines For keeping them off That kind of earth that deserves Much better And I thank the shrines For keeping them away That kind of earth deserves much better No smirk in the air Ahh ×2 And I thank the shrines For keeping them off That kind of earth that deserves Much better And I thank the shrines For keeping them away That kind of earth deserves much better (Kind of earth deserves much better) That kind of earth deserves much better
4.
Hey! What's wrong with your feelings girl? You know, I'd like to see who you really are Woo! Blind singer your mind Lingers to find What's wrong Blind singer, the wights You run from are gone (They're gone) And I see from your eyes All is bland Nothing's fine An ocean covers your eyes (Your vision) You all crawl around Crawl around for a goal For a goal that'll make you cry again Woo! Ahh! Blind! Blind singer, your mind Lingers to find What's wrong An ocean covers your eyes (All that we go through fades) There's no way to silence The walls around you honey, Don't ask for the rain to stop Melting your dirty skin Ahh! Blind! Blind singer your mind Lingers to find What's wrong An ocean covers your eyes
5.
Hey! What's wrong with your feelings girl? You know, I'd like to see who you really are Woo! Blind singer your mind Lingers to find What's wrong Blind singer, the wights You run from are gone (They're gone) And I see from your eyes All is bland Nothing's fine An ocean covers your eyes (Your vision) You all crawl around Crawl around for a goal For a goal that'll make you cry again Woo! Ahh! Blind! Blind singer, your mind Lingers to find What's wrong An ocean covers your eyes (All that we go through fades) There's no way to silence The walls around you honey, Don't ask for the rain to stop Melting your dirty skin Ahh! Blind! Blind singer your mind Lingers to find What's wrong An ocean covers your eyes

about

The Barking Spiders latest EP "Songs (You Give on a Whim)" does not tell a story. It is more of an abstract telling of emotions, removed from any sense of time or space.
The song Wasted Words is the epitome of the ideas expressed in this EP - a frenzied race with no finish line, an unending quest to feel anything at all.

Through solar chord progressions and happy-go-lucky riffs, The Barking Spiders aim to breach the gap between upbeat power-pop and dark lyrics in order to make sense of the world around them.

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released November 24, 2023

All songs written & performed by The Barking Spiders
with La Tangente Label

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Romain Sarrat at Rec'n'Roll Studio

Art Direction/Photography by Jordan Parr
Layout by Julien Altounian

Actors :
Gustave Fiere
Eva Guionnet
Augustin DeWinter
Matéo Martin Lombard

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The Barking Spiders Bordeaux, France

In Bordeaux, during the crazy year of 2020, "The Barking Spiders" were born.

The idea was to create a familiar yet unpredictable musical universe. Both frantic & bewitching, solar & melancholy, the Spiders' sound is mainly influenced by the 2010s' new wave of psychedelic rock, but also by progressive rock from the 1970s.

So stay tuned, turn up the volume and .... do not fear the Spiders!
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