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Interstellar Graveyard Society

by Erik Jarvis

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1.
At the last party on earth The celebrities will shoot the paparazzi While the rest of us enjoy ourselves Out back by the pool drinking champagne Even though we don’t even like the taste A whole world we didn’t make You can paint a canvas But you can’t paint a sunset You can make a child But you’ll never grow up yet Leave your empty glass in the garden At the last party on earth We’ll leak the classified secrets And broadcast them round the world And empty all the prisons Starting with our mind I’ve been such a Man in the system I wanna get the fuck outside At the last party on earth The celebrities will shoot tequila and heroin And so will everybody else Me and my friends making a toast Hammin it up like a legacy roast “Well, I guess we’re going up in smoke…!”
2.
Bogey 06:11
3.
Interstellar Graveyard Society Like a mythic name on a boulevard marquee Crescent moon camouflage - there’s a world beyond our eyes The tallest cliffs don’t touch the sky The deepest caves don’t reach the core There’s always more Gather round underground below the stones Reciting incantations Like recipes or ancient poems Messages in code Gothic poets with occult tattoos Pulp novels and blackrose tea Comic book creatures from the Black Lagoon Comin outta the fog in your highbeams Medieval ragtime Martians on the playground Science fiction nursery rhymes Make a getaway on the merry go round Weathered scrolls, potion bottles Tables caked in colorful wax Dripping from a candelabra Like bloody animal tracks Illegal highway Journey to your nightmare Insects in a pie tray Thrown in your face at the county fair
4.
Shadow 04:16
You were a shadow I was a child Our family was hollow Our house was white Your father's life Was cruel and hard He avoided the stripes To make you a star So well-read A mean of means You filled your head With the mightiest dreams You were a photo A man in a suit A voice on the radio Red, white, and blue Oh the secrets of Jack In the bosom of Mary He's not going back You'll have to carry on You were the great hope A coverboy An American Pope A government decoy You were an eagle He was a crook You were the big screen He was a book Without any story Without any pictures Yeah he was so boring So clinical, so cynical You went to war And came back alive What did you fight for If you had to die In your own land? I'm holding your cold hands The tiniest missile A family curse Turning a limo Into a hearse Turning a hotel Into a gallow I'm getting older You're still a shadow
5.
Heck

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Recorded in Grinnell and Des Moines, summer and fall of 2023

These songs are very lyrics-forward. Some of the poetry is a little dense. The arrangements are spare yet otherworldly. This is the soundtrack of hidden truths, and well-known secrets; of familiar alleyways and alien oceans. Light a candle, pour yourself a cup of tea: welcome to the Interstellar Graveyard Society.

The collection of songs ends after "Shadow." The clean version of LPoE has one tiny minor difference aside from changing f*ck to heck.

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released February 20, 2024

Recorded and produced by Erik Jarvis
Mixed by Patrick Stolley and Erik Jarvis
Mastered by Phil Young
Assistant engineering on piano sessions by Theo Richter
Assistant engineering on vocal sessions by Austin Hill

Jon Baumgartner - Upright bass and pedal steel (2)
Abe Miller - Tenor saxophone (1, 2)
Blake Shaw - Upright bass, electric bass (3, 4)

All other instruments by Erik Jarvis

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Erik Jarvis Des Moines, Iowa

Write notes, record sounds. Producer / keyboard player / arranger.

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