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Headshrinker

from the five word album title by Ism f.c.

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Liner Notes - Eerie, Creepy, Sleepy

First, go watch the movie "The Fourth Kind." Then read below. Then I dare you to go to sleep tonight.

The song is inspired by events not too long ago, when I was rehabbing our fixer upper. That night was paint only. No construction, no trash pickup. Only paint in one of the upstairs bedrooms. I'd go down there to the house after work and do home improvements until I couldn't stay awake any longer, then I'd get up and repeat the process.

After this particular night when I was working with green paint, a roller, and a paintbrush, I cannot recall falling asleep. But I do remember waking up in the morning in my work clothes and putting my feet on the floor only to feel a sharp pain in my calf. I looked down and saw a four inch wet blood stain on my jeans at the site, just like the song says. There was a cleanly cut gash on my calf that went down to the muscle. My pants were in perfect shape except for the blood. I did not recall any injuries from the night before. How could this be? Why were my pants not torn too? I wasn't drinking. Just painting, and I thought, sleeping.

The next day I stopped by the hardware store to pick up some supplies for the house when the guy who works there said he saw some snowy owls at my house the night before. Big ones. Really big. He had been working into the wee hours of the night doing inventory. I asked him where the owls went and what they did. He said that they flew off. Or did they? Maybe they hung around for a while? Or did they sort of disappear? He could not remember and it wasn't as if he wasn't paying attention because he was fascinated by these huge snowy owls. It was as if his memory had been wiped.

Everything I just told you is true.

Now, if you haven't watched the movie, listen to the song first, then watch the movie.

Then I dare you.....no I double dog dare you to crawl under the covers tonight and close your eyes. Who knows, maybe it's happening to all of us.

Insert Twilight Zone music here.

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Lyrics:

It's morning again and I'm moist with dew. I open my eyes. I recognize this place. It's the pasture about a mile from my home. The freshly mown hay has left scrapes upon my face.

Chorus: They made a mistake this time. They couldn't sew up my mind. My thinker has slipped from their headshrinker's grip.

I spit out a bug and I got to my feet. With two tired eyes I look toward the pain. I've felt this before and it's happened again. On the leg of my pants is a four inch wet blood stain. I lift up the leg of my jeans to view the damage. There's a crescent shape slice on my calf but not a thread has been disturbed. It's the work of a surgeon and I laugh because....

Chorus.

And now I have awoken.

Chorus.

There will be a reckoning of all these misdeeds, and it's looming. There's a saying, and it's old, “Mistakes happen, they're only inhuman.”

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from the five word album title, released April 26, 2016

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Ism f.c. Lyme, New Hampshire

Imagine if you will, the bastard child of The White Stripes and Parliament Funkadelic, with lyrics as quirky as a spelling bee champion. That's us, ISM f.c. The fourth album is in the works.

Under the ISM f.c. umbrella are a few side projects. "The Clearing" is a project based on lost cassette tapes from a bygone era. "Committee on Incandescent Anomalies" is a post rock project. ... more

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