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Dark Horse Matter

by MAN'S BODY

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Dark Horse Matter 03:37
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Dark Horse Matter It’s a dark, dark horse Of love off the course Dream to sleep to door Too late waking So hot surely Drove curly and whirly Stars on the killing floor Bodies shaking Picked him like a candy cane Striped up loudly and insane Boldly made for you Times two, all codes broken Took a dark horse bet Pain and regret Bodies rolling on the floor All hands quaking Picked him like a candy cane Striped up loudly and insane Boldly made for you Times two, all codes broken What the hell did he do now? Pissing up a rope in the rain Guess it’s all in the game This dark horse matter (Going down a chewable road) Heavy blood pressure (Now we all are in the fold) This dark horse matter (Dying on an unknown road) Heavy blood pressure Undoing was foretold Dark horse Picked him like a candy cane Striped up loudly and insane Boldly made for you Times two, all codes broken What the hell did he do now? Pissing up a rope in the rain Boldly hyped, no guts Guess it’s all in the game This dark horse matter (Dying down a chewable road) Heavy blood pressure (Now we all are in the fold) This dark horse matter (Dying on an unknown road) Heavy blood pressure Dead as fool’s gold Dark horse
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Dark Horse Matter (Instrumental) 03:37
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about

A few years ago I watched a documentary on Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt, and wrote the lyric for Dark Horse Matter right afterward. The song is basically about how some things are so badly planned that they are over before they start. I use a lot of different images to communicate this: “bodies shaking,” “all codes broken,” “pissing up a rope in the rain,” “dying down a chewable road.” There have been such amazingly star-crossed lovers, Shakespearean and biblical, bad affairs to say the least, but in modern times when they make the tabloids and they aren’t even celebrities, it becomes the most epic fail ever. Usually people will pick sides – they will say “he” acted selfishly, he was abusive, and no doubt that is most likely the case – his wife is certainly a victim. But what I’m suggesting is different. Dark Horse Matter is about a situation where both parties can claim victimhood, in which case it’s sometimes not so clear. Maybe these people were acting out their own immature needs and previous abuse, where victimization comes to a dramatic conclusion. People of course want to judge from the outside, when in reality it is far too cloudy for us to see what is really there. The people involved never saw the iceberg ahead, never realized that perhaps societal forces acted upon them to an extent. We have all brought the worst of ourselves to the relationship table at times. Not to this extreme level, maybe, but I am trying to take a more nuanced perspective – not to judge or to try and make sense out of any of it, and not to make light of it, but to try to find some balance. I’m looking forensically into the car accident. The notion that both individuals, as well as the people around them, ignored the check engine light, so it was just inevitable that the car would eventually crash.
(Greg Franco, Jan 2023)


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credits

released January 20, 2023

MUSICIANS:
Greg Franco (voice)
J. Niimi (guitars and background vocals)
Marco Obaya (guitars)
Dante Pascuzzo (guitars)
Kaitlin Wolfberg (violin and background vocals)
Fredo Ortiz (drums, percussion and background vocals)
Gordon Lysle Bash (bass)

WRITTEN BY:
Greg Franco, Kaitlin Wolfberg and Dante Pascuzzo

PUBLISHED BY:
Sofa Hablando Music, admin by Heyday Media Group (ASCAP) and Regal Platypus Publishing, admin by Songs of Heyday (BMI)

RECORDED BY:
Be Hussey at Comp-ny, LA
Additional recording and mixing by Mike Hagler at Kingsize Sound Labs, Chicago

PRODUCED BY:
Man’s Body

ENGINEERED BY:
Be Hussey

ASST ENGINEERED BY:
Adam Russell

MIXED BY:
Mike Hagler

MASTERED BY:
Mike Hagler

ALBUM ART PHOTO BY:
Eric Mahle

ALBUM LAYOUT DESIGN BY:
RL Travis


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Man's Body Chicago, Illinois

Five piece Chicago/LA collab. Formed in 2016. Released debut CD EP, 'Found', in 2017. 'Put Your Family In It' is our debut album. Man's Body is: Greg Franco, J. Niimi, Marco Obaya. (Plus friends.) Studioesque soft-punk. Stay Found.

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