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Change is Coming

We say goodbye to a musical part of Picture Atlantic history. On February 13th, our first EP 'Change is Welcome' will be saying goodbye on our online stores!

Change is Coming

Picture Atlantic Song Meanings - We Sing Like Jailbirds

Listen - We Sing Like Jailbirds by Picture Atlantic

First the thought and then the seed
I am parched and beyond peace
It’s not like I enjoy the act
I just need to drown this panic attack

There’s really nothing here to see
We sing like jailbirds when we drink
We’ve gone a couple cups too deep
We sing like jailbirds when we drink

My holy father sheds a tear
and I repent each time I’m here
Worried more than I should be
A cup of ignorance for me

There’s really nothing here to see
We sing like jailbirds when we drink
You really shouldn’t be calling me
We sing like jailbirds when we drink

“The song came about at a time that a lot of my friends were drinking maybe more than they should have been. The things I heard them say while drunk, were pretty intense. Things they definitely wouldn’t have said to someone while they were sober. Yet, they were things that they truly felt or were thinking about. At the same time, I was also trying to suss out how much even I should be drinking at any given time, and I sort of muse on the idea for myself personally. A Jailbird is convict or prisoner, and when they say that someone is ‘singing’ it means they have snitched on someone or become a grass. It’s like the alchohol turned all these people into sweating, confessing, nervous convicts under a bright light. I guess the bright light was their own in the end.” -Nik

Tumblr Crashed and Killed My Blog Post - The RB Story

Detective Graves is on the case!

People of the Earth,

While I had a much better blog post for you today, Tumblr (or Chrome) decided to oddly kill my tab and now I’ve lost it all. In this greatly shortened version of the post, here is the list of nine songs we’ve worked on with Aaron Hellam for the new album. Note their strange song titles:

  1. Evil Song
  2. Arabian Disco
  3. Capo 6
  4. Gorillaz 2
  5. Lost Highway
  6. Aaron Song
  7. Something New
  8. Sober Angel
  9. 925

We’ve had a long history of weird working titles and some have even stuck around:

  • Regina - We gave it this temporary name because anything with a piano automatically sounds like Regina Spektor. It ended up sticking
  • Ladder - Nik said the main riff of this song made him think of climbing a ladder. He probably put it more eloquently but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it
  • 5:50 Hurts - This was an inside joke about Brian’s auditory abilities and his penchant for asking sound engineers to always cut 500hz from Nik’s vocal mix
  • Antiques Unltd. - I originally dubbed this song, “The Brian Graves Movie Night” because it was written during an intense anime marathon at Brian’s house. I still write it as “BGMN” on set lists

We’ll have some video footage of last night’s session up for you soon. 

Tumblr, (or Chrome) I hate you.

-RB