Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid
I've been working on a cocktail called "Grounds For Divorce", whoa
Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleep, whoa
Doubt comes in on sticks, but then he kicks like a horse, whoa
There's a Chinese cigarette case and the rest you can keep
And the rest you can keep
And the rest you can keep
There's a hole in my neighborhood
Down which of late I cannot help but fall
There's a hole in my neighborhood
Down which of late I cannot help but fall
Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid
(Ooh, ooh)
There's this whispering of jokers doing "Flesh by the Pound"
To a chorus of supposes from the little town whores
There'll be twisted karaoke at the Aniseed Lounge
And I'd bring you further roses but it does you no good
And it does me no good
And it does you no good
There's a hole in my neighborhood
Down which of late I cannot help but fall
There's a hole in my neighborhood
Down which of late I cannot help but fall
There's a hole in my neighborhood
Down which of late I cannot help but fall
Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid
(Ooh, ooh)
Initial Ideas
The main impression I have got through studying this song over the past cople of hours is it's quite helpless and dark undertone which is brought through by the lyrics.
The song itself is upbeat but with quite rough and heavy guitar riffs throughout but the lyrics seem to take you through the messy journey of his divorce. The main theme of the song revolves around his drinking and how in turn this has effected his marriage and home life.
The lyrics 'There's a hole in my neighborhood, Down which of late I cannot help but fall' highlight his inability to control his drinking and how this is ultimately destroying his marriage and in turn how he is drinking because his marriage is failing,
From a visual point of view I believe some form of imagery involving his helplessness towards alcohol which also highlights his loneliness and lack of control would be the best way of visually representing this track.
a single simplicstic option involving, a whiskey glass and a figure falling into it. This could represent the glass as the 'hole' that he 'cannot help but fall'. By just featuring these visuals on a plain / coloured background it should keep the focus on these elements while also highlighting the loneliness of the song.
Using a tiled whiskey glass at different levels of fullness was an aim to represent the daily journey of the character. It would be presented as more of a tiled pattern, with the final glass being empty showing the completion of his day and the fact wit will just start all over again tomorrow.
This idea would be more photography based. it would feature a blurred image of an empty room, with nothing in it but a table with a glass of whiskey sat on it. the glass would be the only thing on the cover that would be in focus, the rest of the photo will clearly be an empty room but out of focus enough to give the message that the drink is the only thing that makes sense in his lie at the minute, as well as the underlying message of him being sat in an empty flat drinking away his sorrows.
The design on the right follows the same concept as the idea above but the layout of the photograph would be different, with the glass being centered and placed on the top, perhaps the blurred photo would be digitally printed but the glass would be a screen printed vector?
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