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Lucky After Dark

from Let It Goddam Be by The Van Allen Belt

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about

The song was recorded for an unreleased episodic series conceived by writer/director/producer David Matthews.

The main character, Xangelica Pshado, is a time traveling creature of the future who desires immortality in the pop cultures of the past. In the Pittsburgh-themed episode, Xangelica travels to the city in the late 1960s era to learn about the important cultural movements of its queer nightlife scene in real time.

The title is inspired by an exhibition at the Future Tenant Gallery in 2014 when the Pittsburgh Queer History Project curated an exhibition called “Lucky After Dark” where the space was transformed into a darkened members-only nightclub, illuminated by the turn of slide projectors featuring 640 original images from gay night clubs owned by Robert “Lucky” Johns. Being one of the first openly gay club owners in the city of Pittsburgh, he has been described as the nucleus of the GLBTQ community between 1960 - 1980. The exhibition described the formation of a community of labor and love, in which chartered fraternal organizations became queer employers hidden in plain sight during a period of a state sanctioned oppression.

"This sound produced is visual and super textured.. Breakdown is awesome.
'Your handle on reality has absolutely vaporized' Again surprised by the sense of nostalgia, but it’s tuned and slightly discordant, appropriate level of anxiety for our times. This song is perhaps the most confusing one for me on the project, not sure why."

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I was a frame I thought I had died but something's going on inside
Tonight my great work will begin losing the flesh to make a skin
and bone dries contrary skies, garden of lies judged by desire

It looks as if you were to take her hand she would disintegrate
You wonder just what doors she had to open up to immigrate
My productive salivation is the mode of transportation
This warm room it's stimulation will make for a hot bed after dark

By night by night, night by night by night

Necessary steps to take sale persevering consuming my tail
I plan to leave no paper trail invisibility is key
Weave twist climb, make the enzyme, who's the host of this carcass of time

Her words have spun into a ball of yarn you have no groundwork to forewarn your hands are tied her tail is torn trial by fire in the dark

By night by night, night by night by night

Here inside this place I can stay ocelli hell-bound to seek my prey
Change of awareness in the mind I must be guilty to be kind
New midline exit outline advanced design breaking the spine

Now the time has come to break the seal I feel the light remove the peal
My raised appendages reveal aerodynamic wings of steel
A carapace is formed you can't avert your gaze you're hypnotized
Your handle on reality has absolutely vaporized
Her shadow grows into a flower branching in the twilight hour this reflection now your witness she will stand before you after dark.

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from Let It Goddam Be, released December 23, 2019

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