FAWM: "Please Cut Off My Head"

Please Cut Off My Head

3 weeks ago by @ttg105

Liner Notes

#acoustic

Ever wish you could stop thinking? There IS a solution ...

Lyrics

Please cut off my head
cos my head is defective

Cut off my head, toss it in the garbage
donate it to science or use it as a cabbage
to kick across
your lettuce-green lawn

Cos I don't want it anymore
no I don't want it anymore

After you cut off my head
just leave me for dead
scoop out my brains like a cantaloupe
and use my skull as a candleholder

Cos I don't want it anymore
no I don't want it anymore

And I'll thank you for taking this off my hands
cos it's bad and sad and I've had enough
and I don't want it anymore
no, I don't want it anymore

Comments

@heliosonorous 2w

Very cool, the layered vocals and spinning image serve to enhance the feel of being run ragged and the need for the cut.

@fuzzy 3w

"...use it as a cabbage
to kick across
your lettuce-green lawn"; reminds me of when I was in High School. We were sitting in class, bored of course, and suddenly a cabbage comes flying through the open door and bounces off the blackboard. The teacher picks it up and puts it on his desk and continues with the lesson without missing a beat. No one ever said anything and we all just continued on.
To this day I still question whether I hallucinated the entire thing.

@coolparadisoMod 3w

A bit of a terminal solution methinks. This has a gentleness for such a lyric, lovely guitar! Clean and crisp

@mikehex 3w

Love the use of echo, especially the fantastic build effect for the outro, great subtle intensification.

@ayais 3w

Love the guillotine. Guitar so clear and present. Wistful, just say goodbye!

@odilongreen 3w

The lyrics could be used in a very depressing song, but they way you perform them here, they're more fantastical and searching; it's not a plea for help so much as a mission statement to enter a realm of different thinking. And I'm delighted to go along for the ride.

(I really like the video too if even it made me dizzy, which I think is oddly appropriate!)

@freshspotlessyouth 3w

Mesmerizing guitar! I think this would be effective. I'm gonna pass on using your head as cabbage, though. But seriously, there's something poignant about that plaintive refrain, something that cuts through the absurdity

@chill4matt 3w

I share sbs' thoughts. I hope to reattach my head in the A.M. Nice work, Scott!

@sbs 3w

Maybe just cut it off at night so I can sleep. Then reattach it the next morning - lol! Good to hear you again!

@tamsnumber4 3w

"scoop out my brains like a cantaloupe"
This resonates with me, how free we would be without worries and anxieties planted in our brains. Your descriptors and ideas always light my thoughts on fire.

@mahtowin 3w

Oh, i know this feeling!
But as long as we are here we have to think!

I like the melancholical guitar playing (as you know) and i can relate to your thoughts!

@billwhite51 3w

for some reason, mention of the lettuce-green lawn makes me see the head rolling across it. the guitar part would be fitting to underscore a movie scene of a convict being escorted to the guillotine. isnt it odd that headless figures in fantasy and horror films still function with all the dexterity of those who have retained their heads?