Questions In Reverse the Story

Well, Blood and Headlines is on indefinite hiatus, which pretty much means we're done as far as I can tell. So I figured that it might be cool for those of you that listened to QIR (heh) a lot to get an explanation on the story arc and some of the ideas behind certain songs. If you have listened to the point where some of these songs really mean something to you, then you might not want to read this, it's highly unlikely that our meanings will match up.

The summary goes something like this: Our troubled main character suffers from schizophrenia with paranoid delusions about how the world is out to get him. The stage is set with 'The Valley,' a title which refers to the city of Los Angeles and introduces his best friend and coconspirator, 'together, comrade, brother.' 'Pay Per Cut' introduces our main character's schizophrenia, 'I made you so now you negate me proposing disbelief in my ideals,' lovely mother, 'son you're a cunt, you're a bleeding welt,' and 'I Don't Call' introduces his father who is talking simultaneously to his son (our main character), the television, and himself, 'I'll be your alpha, your dad to rights, who fathered me the same.' But things get wacky when Jr. finds out that daddy was porking the pet pitbull in the pantry and… just kidding. The paranoia starts to take over and our favorite schitzo becomes obsessed with his best friend. Capillary is a murder fantasy, a test kill (maybe), a throw away death setting the stage for him to become completely obsessed and reframe his one true friend as his 'Favorite Foe.' A foe who must... I'm afraid we've left the ending, along with a lot of the details inbetween vague and very open to interpretation, let's just say that there are a lot of little details to imagine intricate conspiracies to. So if you've read this far, go listen to it again right now with your headphones on and the lyrics in front of you, and let your mind fill in the blanks. You sick fuck.

-Jeff Frost

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Credits are lyrics only, vocal patterns and melodies were all done by Brandon.

[ THE VALLEY ] - BRANDON JEFF - Kings among thieves holy amputees sadistic saints and saviors debt collectors disease line up assume the second coming wave the picket sign swallow flame deform the masses burn to show spine they follow in hordes shake tectonic plates awaken discourse the undesirable comrade brothers Babylon I've arrived face first in lust and poison skies line up assume the second coming wave the picket sign swallow flame deform the masses burn to show spine as great injustice is done we feast on harlots grace indulge our way to the end together comrade brother Babylon I've arrived face first in lust and poison skies my call to angels aren't heard from hell they grow deaf to every burn surrounded by liars fuel for fire chew the fruit my filthy whore make your incision bring our ending chew the fruit my filthy whore

[ FEED US ] - JEFF BRANDON - I've been living blind in an inmate state of mind predicting plagues and tidal waves it won't break me down but make me whole again I'll leave it all and take this on down on the ground I'll wear it on me do you want this now or is it too late? I'll march you blind into the flames you call your Armageddon worlds implode and then will again straight out disappear and appear again but then again worlds can disappear if I were to close my eyes forever more she asked me 'God is on your pitchfork drowning blood on your faith shall I throw it out or just go away? But even I'd be around to try your magic wrapped around my holy town are you sure you're all alone?' Am I yet littering bodies behind at the edge of my feet? It's all in one eye separate serpents of glory all in one eye somebody tried to own me all in one eye serpents now want to disown me suppose if I were to close my eyes forever more I if I were to close my eyes forever more

[ SHECONOMY ] - BRANDON JEFF - As a right as a tool as a way out of this world with one shot I'm erasing the self destructive strangle hold I've become accustomed to chew it off spit the veins to impeach the life that remains hazardous finely tuned bound for relapse tear it off and save chemical re-entry there's no running for cover now that fear receives a warrant here you knew why it was so as the homemade surgery shown end a life end a tale like rehab for old habits today at times I'm answering the old habits are calling as kings sneeze at you bury me bury me now since I butcher it anyway emanate death give me my hole I am your God BRAIN DEAD not alive not a human being no nothing like you absent mind debt consumed proudly relapse I've lost the way at times I'm answering the old habits are calling as kings sneeze at you look for me sanctity now a gentleman savoir butcher slave emanate death give me my hole I am your God brain dead I'm never coming clean speed through the warning signs no need for reasons to sleep through reality bring on the bleakness give me the never ending cataclysmic war wounds in my head there's nothing left for me now at times I'm answering the old habits are calling as kings sneeze at you as a right as a tool

[ PAY PER CUT ] -  BRANDON JEFF SEB JOHN - I made you but somehow you negate me proposing disbelief in my ideals fingers pointed at me now here's to you for turning this around you started as an outline to become the idiomatic me that day marked the decline of a self induced jaded decay the pieces fit synchronicity the clash within that kills me fabrication rules reality I'll make you into someone less see through to disguise my defects you'll be my calculated parody to keep the world at bay fabrication rules reality the clash within that kills me the pieces fit so simply that day marked the decline you started as an outline now you're me but you're not mine well now you're an item that's in my care mom save your own reprobate singe all the talent out of me son you're cunt you're a bleeding welt boy take all my reprimands take all my time away from me shut it bring it suck it play with your toy burn it kill it cut it up my little boy well our lives hang on by stitches well it scars my intuition well our lives hang on by inches space between our own two faces now you're a lie and a pig that can not satisfy my demands you made a diamond out of me what i've been living for is a product of all that i stand behind they're all after me all that i am outside is an effigy for a united mind they want war with me all that has come and gone always looked for me all of it comes in doubt oh omnipotent one what the fuck

[ MY FAVORITE FOE ] - JEFF - What a lovely enemy and I've always said you hide what a lovely enemy dead love so amplified rob the docile trophy cut your neck cut my veins I can't like it like you want rob the docile trophy falling on my name find your selfless control you know how I know? blissful letters to hate me I'm seen as you are all I want break you off well suck my face paint don't you ever raise your tone suck my face paint don't you ever raise your tone you know how I know? robbery and you hate me I'm seen as you are all I want break you off well suck my face paint don't you ever raise your tone all I want break you off as you hate me I dig out your eyes all I want break you off and all I ever sold right realized it's dead SOLD! as you are as you hate me I'm seen as you are so I gave something truthful forgetting combat fortune no more

[ I DON'T CALL ] – JEFF SEB - Now lottery over the savings you're not wanting to name I'll be your alpha my dad to rights who fathered me the same your grimy 'oh my god' is hanging to a body of coal tears like hopeful it's advertising the world don't need it done you let things go this far? you catch my what i mean today? my bastard father fathered me the same bad my soulful let you die 'fore I let you go oh my hopeful let you die 'fore I let you go some have been deaf to me propoject! mystery! assturbate suepologize my savior while I try to reach her where are the 'oh my god there's a hangin to go on in this day?' looks mightily awful bastard deadly do love the heat son bless they told me son need not no other teat for me I'll love me a good meat pull the group tells me it feels too I didn't read all my army 'man you wills' what you say and what I know you won't save anyone don't raise your only why would I let you? you won't save anyone don't raise your only no swaying what I'll make of you southern town special I'm gonna stay here gonna stay here I'm gonna stay here gonna make it clear why would I let you?

[ CAPILLARY ] - BANDON JEFF - drag your feet sonny through my fair warning you're mine to bleed mine to seed ether rags are so convincing drag your limp body through my cluttered study mine to bleed mine to seed ether rags are so convincing cold fingers dance across my skin soiled bandages restrain my sight homemade inoculations give ugly insight you never wanted to meet a bastard of my type homicidal patron nihilistic demon seed arrogance in the flesh abandonment in the eyes hellish enslavement awaits another piece of meat I want to stare as your final breath escapes I want to stare can't remember how I got here will I ever make it out alive? should I pull these stitches from my eyes? wake up and bleed for me your destination's in sight let's get you out of that skin and in my guillotine in all your lovely pain you left your breath behind you know one thing? all I got are funerals I want to stare as you fade away I want to stare

[ FELL DOWN THE STAIRS ] - SEB BRANDON JEFF - Blistering fever rots my mind I'm flailing down the staircase again my sanity's been pushed aside rows of padded cells enjoy a rebar sun spiral down the well to hell what I've become no one calls no one cares gestating seizures amplify I'm treading on the brink of the end my sanity's been pushed aside behold I see the ones medicating me split me open you dissect me doctor please no lobotomies smell reminds me sterile places hands no faces scream at me walls of padded cells enjoy your rebar son spiral down the well to hell what I've become no credit to limit won't harm just kill it cross the line complicit say you don't mind duplicit

[ SEX ON TV ] - BRANDON JOHN SEB JEFF - Reload revert convert this world relieve us of our souls whisper curses speak my name you are the sand I'm the line the fermented lie I wash you down with a swig of regret try to forget your ways and you're back again if there were ever anyone I could incarcerate no shame take aim your name my ultimate target this time you're mine I know while our backs are turned you're digging our graves while our backs were turned you sold us like slaves scorched skies evil profit road paved with children now walk it give me blood and headlines create my façade give up confuse and praise my disgrace whisper curses speak my name you are the sand I'm the line the fermented lie I wash you down with a swig of regret try to forget your ways and you're back again if there were ever anyone I would debilitate the thoughts inside my mind they scream it would be you it would be you your day is my night your dark is my light your sound is my sight your wrong is my right your disgust is my delight your fish is my kite your dim is my bright your praise is my smite your lull is my plight your depth is my height your loose is my tight your weak is my might you're perfect but not quite

[ SEES FIRE ] - BRANDON - Sick thoughts hazardously natural feel the need to maim today dismiss your cookie cutter way of life and revert to a primitive state hold before me self destruction annihilation in the palm packrat bloodlust await combustion dials turn upon the time bomb dissecting life's direction again my vessel's lost indecision surprise collision we packrat bloodlust I know it's wrong face down covered in my sins I only pray that god is watching my own decision welcome demise I can't hold back the shattered glass or mend the pieces I have lost survey the crime scene pay the cost tread the ground where life was lost coin in mouth gets you across limbo above the sloth's into the hands of your boss packrat bloodlust I know it's wrong face down covered in my sins I only pray that god is watching my own decision welcome demise who's at fault? my only thought where's this leading me? the light has gone I'm all alone in the abyss I remain

[ OBLIVIOUS ] - JEFF - now you know our fate fate as the water washed over me and I won't be there I've seen pain as the water washed over me and I want out go and right your own way you tried to kill me you're talking chemical intoxicating I want no more to say I wanna be audibly mute you tried to steal me you're talking chemical intoxicating I am no more in your own way what a country what a man in honor of tumors in my head rob the docile trophy tell my maker get off my neck I don't even need to hold on all I wanted was your own way look you win you won standing as the water crushed over me and I want out go and right your own way you tried to blame me you're talking chemical you're complicating all I opine no more I wanna be audibly muted all I wanted was your own way what a country what a name chew one of these tumors in my head rob the docile trophy tell my maker it's on my tab I don't even need to hold on go off and die in your own way