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The Church — Numbers
Album: After Everything Now This
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Released: 2002
Length: 4:18
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Oh yeah
Your one and only life
Ripped from the earth with these bare hands
You dare
Question the ritual
Despite continual
Threats of "gonna get you all"

1 law for the officers
1 for the gentlemen
2 bad you 3 know what it's 4
5 for this awful dive
6 for the genetics
7 for the lucky pricks who went into heaven

Nightmare
We ride for miles and miles
Following the howling of our prey
Out there
Reload our yellow rigs
Scrambling for shelter
Dig a void, decay

1 for the flaming sun
2 for the location
3 for the martyrs and the stars
4 for the wind and sand
5 so you understand
6 for the slips 'twixt the cup and the lips

Come on!

1 for the cockpit blues
2 for the Panzer crews
3 for the vast and molten sky
4 for the failed talks
5 for the knives and forks
6 for forbidden kicks
All the yobbos in the sticks

(Female voice:)
C: ...10011...10011...
R: 10011...zeroes...
L: ...makeaveete, system overload, the ovual engine was not able to process all the required data in tone, tone, tone, tone...
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Mayhap a  long stretch along
now it's a song.
Posted 8 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
I agree with this... sometimes takes a dozen listens before I feel like I have a grasp on what I feel.  But, people who will trash on a single listen aren't (usually) trying to add to the thoughtful discourse OR inform.  Very rarely a song moves me to comment on the first listen, and of those, almost all are because I liked the song.  But then, this sort of thing is probably heavily influenced by your personality.

1guysomewhere wrote:
(Not that I will ever know the answer, but…) I'm wondering how often definitive dismissals of songs are made, here, upon hearing a song for the first time. Might be different for others, but I never know for sure how fully I am going to appreciate a song the first time I hear it..

 


Posted 8 years ago by greyfin10    [ Reply ]
(Not that I will ever know the answer, but…) I'm wondering how often definitive dismissals of songs are made, here, upon hearing a song for the first time. Might be different for others, but I never know for sure how fully I am going to appreciate a song the first time I hear it..


Posted 8 years ago by 1guysomewhere    [ Reply ]
Dirge
Posted 9 years ago by Kaisersosay    [ Reply ]
{#Clap}  Nice choice from The Church RP {#Clap}
Posted 9 years ago by Jannne    [ Reply ]
I used this as my alarm clock song for several months.  Mistake... the chiming guitar at the beginning make me cringe now.  Once I get 10 seconds into the song its o.k.. though :)

Always happy to here the Church on RP though.  Thanks!
Posted 10 years ago by greyfin10    [ Reply ]
 Sloggydog wrote:

I know you are but what am I?  (sorry but I didn't think it deserved a response with any more maturity)

 
Typical teacher - obviously no opinion but yours matters
Posted 10 years ago by The_Walrus    [ Reply ]
 The_Walrus wrote:
Boring nonsense

 
I know you are but what am I?  (sorry but I didn't think it deserved a response with any more maturity)
Posted 10 years ago by Sloggydog    [ Reply ]
Boring nonsense
Posted 10 years ago by The_Walrus    [ Reply ]
This Church tune doesn't do ANYTHING for me like some of their other tunes do. 
Posted 11 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Cool. Would love to hear more later-period The Church on RP.

8. 
Posted 11 years ago by le_colonel    [ Reply ]
this is a terrible boring song and should never be played at 3:55pm {#Crashcomp}
Posted 12 years ago by gosvimmink    [ Reply ]
Mesmerizing indeed!  Their live shows are sublime.  Musical wizardry and wry anecdotes from 30 years or touring.... 
Posted 12 years ago by jeffaze    [ Reply ]
 Synth80s wrote:
The Church has a much deeper catalog than most people will ever know if they've only been exposed to "Under the Milky Way."  I think they're one of the more underappreciated bands of the last couple decades, along with Catherine Wheel and The Afghan Whigs.
 
So true. . .


Posted 14 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
The Church has a much deeper catalog than most people will ever know if they've only been exposed to "Under the Milky Way."  I think they're one of the more underappreciated bands of the last couple decades, along with Catherine Wheel and The Afghan Whigs.
Posted 14 years ago by Synth80s    [ Reply ]
 greyfin10 wrote:

There were a couple of records I didn't really get... but by far I loved the majority of them.  Trying to remember the album that had like 4 tracks, each like 20 minutes long...

Edit:  I was thinking of Bastard Universe.  I probably should revisit it, but I remember being disappointed, which is rare for a Church album (for me). 

 
...bastard universe was the bonus disc to hologram of baal, and while a good listen isn't really a proper studio album, more of a jam session, really...i'll admit that i haven't 'gotten' any of their most-recent albums following after everything now this: from forget yourself onward they sound like unfinished efforts to my ears, demo albums more than finished productions...

...this one, though, after everything now this is an outstanding album...
Posted 15 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]

There were a couple of records I didn't really get... but by far I loved the majority of them.  Trying to remember the album that had like 4 tracks, each like 20 minutes long...

Edit:  I was thinking of Bastard Universe.  I probably should revisit it, but I remember being disappointed, which is rare for a Church album (for me).

 guiguy wrote:

The Church is just so good, period. One of the very best bands, ever; period. Too good for commercial radio—thanks Bill—and every lp/cd they have made over the years is solid, period. Check out Kilbey's blog at https://www.stevekilbey.blogspot.com/
 

Posted 15 years ago by greyfin10    [ Reply ]
Man, I need to change my wake up song... this song that I used to love is starting to give me the jibblies when I hear that guitar part kick in.  NO, I DON'T WANT TO GREET THE DANGED DAY STEVE!

Seriously though, cool song... I do need to change my cd/clock alarm track :(

Posted 15 years ago by greyfin10    [ Reply ]
The Church is just so good, period. One of the very best bands, ever; period. Too good for commercial radio--thanks Bill--and every lp/cd they have made over the years is solid, period. Check out Kilbey's blog at https://www.stevekilbey.blogspot.com/
Posted 16 years ago by guiguy    [ Reply ]
A nice transition away from Coldplay. Always an avid listener of the Church.
Posted 16 years ago by rbigelo    [ Reply ]
The Church... indispensable, poetic, mesmerizing, creative.
Posted 17 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
Awesome - another cool, etheric song from The Church
Posted 17 years ago by Ender43    [ Reply ]
Precede this with Bauhaus or Peter Murphy, follow with Daniel Ash and some Disintegration-era Cure, and the RP goth mini-movement will be complete. Quite likeable tune from the poet Kilbey and mates.
Posted 17 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
Was that the dulcet tones of Agnes, default Mac text-to-speech voice, reporting an error at the end of the song?
Posted 17 years ago by UltraNurd    [ Reply ]
...outstanding album - quiet, subtle, takes quite a few listenings to grow, but masterful...
Posted 17 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
Steve Kilbey, Robert Smith...Robert Smith, Steve Kilbey...now you two kids go play out in the yard.
Posted 17 years ago by azdcryan    [ Reply ]
Man, The Church is one of the best bands ever. Fantastic track selection....great song.
Posted 17 years ago by esotericderek    [ Reply ]
it seems like a song like this has been coming out every few years for decades,.........
Posted 17 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]