Man's Body's third studio album, NEW CHROMA, out now. This 140g LP features striking cover artwork by Wesley Kimler, a two-sided 12"x12" insert with liner notes, lyrics and photos, and is limited to 200 copies.
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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)
lyrics
DARK HORSE MATTER LYRICS
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
credits
from New Chroma,
released September 1, 2023
MUSICIANS:
Greg Franco: vocals
J. Niimi: guitar, vocals
Dante Pascuzzo: guitar
Marco Obaya: guitar
Gordon Bash: bass
Kaitlin Wolfberg: violin, vocals
Alfredo Ortiz: drums, vocals, percussion
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)
PRODUCED BY:
Man’s Body
RECORDED BY:
Be Hussey with Adam Russell at Comp-ny, Glendale, CA
ADDITIONAL RECORDING, MIXING & MASTERING BY:
Mike Hagler at Kingsize Sound Labs, Chicago
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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