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ELECTRIC SERAPH

SNAKE OIL HALO

Plays like it is still 1967 and means every word of it

style

  • psychedelic rock
  • sixties garage energy
  • fuzz guitar
  • hammond organ
  • powerful commanding female vocal
  • driving tom-heavy drums
  • live and raw
  • american accent
  • urgent and hypnotic
  • american accent

the numbers

bpm
136
key
E minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.95
valence
0.53
vocal at
8.5s
length
3:41
language
En

lyrics

(a match strikes)
(testify... testify...)

You came to town with velvet talk
A suitcase full of borrowed light
You sold my sisters moonlit chalk
And called the powder second sight
(sight, sight)

But I have seen behind your shine
I've seen the mirror and the wire
(the wire! the wire!)

Take off that halo! (take it off!)
Take off that halo!
It's rusting green around your head
Take off that halo! (now!)
Take off that halo!
And say the things you really said
(say it! say it!)

Your pamphlet promised me the sun
For only three easy installments down
Well honey, I already own one
It rises free over this town
(every day, every day)

Take off that halo! (take it off!)
Take off that halo!
It's rusting green around your head
Take off that halo! (now!)
Take off that halo!

I lit your tent with your own matches
(burn, baby)
Watched your angels run in batches
(run, run, run)
No refunds on the truth

(the organ answers every phrase)

Take off that halo!
Take off that halo!
It's rusting green around your head
Take off that halo!
Take off that halo!

(keep the suitcase)
(leave the light)