Image by: fogpeople | © copyright 2006
Our first album, available at CDBaby and iTunes, is a film noir concept album set in our home way from home, the dark underground fetish and S&M scene. The story revolves around three main characters: Mr. Haze, Maryjane, an Ms. Mad Love. The songs tell the story of what happens to them in the City of Night.
“Very creative stuff, evocative, noir, deep ambience, love the sound, feel and attitude.”
“I love the darkness, sleaze, sexiness and beautiful sounds.”
“This album is truly its own thing.”
Loosely autobiographical, and based on a film noir, City of Night makes no attempt to hide it's drama. Of that, Michael Hayes White says, "I went to film school, not music school, the only way I know to tell a story is visually and with a lot of melodrama."
Regarding the album's origins, Michael adds "It's a story that everyone knows from some point of view: people want something they shouldn't, they lie to get it, everything falls apart, the end. It's the next chapter of the oldest story, isn't it? Boy meets girl, boy meets OTHER girl..."
Good evening Mr. Haze
May I take your coat?
Please, have a seat.
I sit alone
corner table
don't like to share
sharing’s hard
I'm on my own
No one home
They’re both gone
It’s tragic
Used to have a girl
Went for a whirl
End of the world
It’s magic
I know you wonder
How I went under
Tasting all the others
Climactic
Take you to the parties
and the writhing bodies
And the pills, broken wills, love spills
Evaporates
Someday fate or some mysterious force
Can put the finger on you
It puts the finger on you
She puts the finger on you
For no good reason at all
For no good reason at all
When you're out with the fog people
(all they want is sickness)
In the City of night
When you meet the Fog People
Mr. Haze and Maryjane
had a secret dream
we had a secret dream
Would you like another?
Yeah.
When I call your name
you will know
that we are not merely dreaming
but dwelling in a mutually created
exploration of the senses.
Dare we call it love?
It's silly.
Maybe we're too young to know.
But I think we do.
Kiss on the cheek
What a week
You get the lights
I light a candle
Draw the blinds
Don't overthink
Stick to the plan
Only in the shadows
Don't make a sound
I close my eyes
Lock the door
Lay by the fire
Kiss on the cheek
This is every day
With you.
Over time
That's what's going on.
Way out, love is loud
Can you find me
in the darkness
if we're not alone?
Open you eyes
Steal a kiss
Just improvise this time
You'll be waiting
in the corner
just like you always do
Over time
That's what's going on.
Where is the passion
I'm frozen in action
I need a reaction
I've got have some
In my secret dream
nothing is obscene
in my dream.
Light is the heart
that chills her secret life
so still, and yet someone moves
Signs prove you wouldn't understand
I see the light.
What a week
Here we go, repeat
Don't want it nice
I want some danger
Open the blinds
let in the night
break some rules
into the shadows
strangers are here
fantasies allowed
find a place
we crave desire
when was the time
when it was easy
to love?
Over time
That's what's going wrong
That's what's going wrong
Hello. Come inside.
Somewhere out in the deep, dark night
There's something going on,
not quite right.
Night people, doing things with skin and lies
You've never seen before.
Are you ready?
You know you want to do things
and you know that other people
want to do things too.
Drowning out reality
you are so saved
by your own sensuality
Feel me, getting closer to you
Pleasure will set you free
if you just tell it to
Kommoddities of the Fetish
Pleasure is freedom is power
We specialize in going way too far
Our kisses taste like dirty stars
Got what you need to make the wrong feel right
more than enough to get through the night
Sexy secret smoky shadow shapes
Arouse your desires, and show you the way
Are you ready?
Come with me.
Drowning out reality
you are so saved
by your own sexuality
Feel me, getting closer to you
Pleasure will set you free
if you just tell it to
Oh yeah oh yeah.
Is it up to me?
It's all up to you.
Tempting messages from deep inside the night
Drowning out reality
you are so saved
by your own sensuality
And I know I want to do things
And I know that other people
want to do them too
Although I'm sinking down so low
there's rules I've got to follow
Freedom, freedom, freedom
Step towards freedom
I abandon myself to the charms of this life
No boundaries
Deep tempting messages from deep inside the night
Are you ready?
Are you ready to come with me?
Into your deepest fantasy
Are you ready?
Trapped between satin skin and the sky
Firm hands lift me up so high
When rapture seems so very far away
You will come with me, I know the way.
It’s easy to be poison
When all they want is sickness
It’s okay to be criminal
Just don’t leave a witness
Break – smut rap (you figure it out)
People drip with careless kisses tonight
Where the lights are much too, much too bright
In the dark, you’ll do what I say
It’s your lucky night, tonight you stay
It’s easy to be poison
When all they want is sickness
It’s okay to be criminal
Just don’t leave a witness
It’s easy to be poison
When all they want is sickness
It’s okay to be criminal
Just don’t leave a witness
One is fresh and innocent
One is crafty, and uninhibited
She wants to be just like you
She thinks I’m sugar coated, but I have a dark side too
She thinks I’m all mischief, but I have a sweet side too.
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover
Never met a girl like me, I’m full of surprises you will see
sweet sweet sweet, I feel like, feels like
When I look into your eyes, I see a reflection of me
Something so unfamiliar, yet I know just how you feel
How do you feel?
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
Feel like
What she don’t know won’t hurt her
But what I’ll teach her might
She thinks she wants to be just like me, just like me
But I’m gonna set it right
It’s not so easy to be the queen
I’m not as innocent, innocent, as I seem
Gimme that sweet sweet sweet emotion
I feel like, I feel like I could fly
When I look into your eyes
I can taste the way you recognize
Sometimes you captivate me, and I don’t even know why, know why
Gimme that sweet sweet sweet one more time, one more time
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
Feel like
BREAK – french stuff
I wanna be with you, don’t walk away
I wanna shake it up in a brand new way
Girl you’re not my type
We’ll just see about that after tonight
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
Imrpov
I’ll give you every day
I’ll give you everything
That he never gave you baby
Just leave it up to me
I’ll give you everything
I’ll give you… everything
I’ll make you feel like?
Hecubii are loose on the night again
we can tell just what you're feelin'
a little sniff, little smoke, little swallow
lead with the tongue and I'll follow
Hecubii are loose on the night again
I can tell just what you're needin'
the night is young and so are we
so have a little more baby come with me
it takes two to make a thing go right
three, four, five, go all night
I'm makin' dirty movies on the backs of my eyelids
you're built like an ocean and I'm gonna skinny dip
can't be deprived
I can't be teased, denied
monster inside
comes alive
and I'll make you mine
I'll be all you see
I'm gonna slip inside
and take a piece of you with me
mind's possessed by all the attractions
strapped down to chemical reactions
got a poisonous nature, gets 'em every time
hear a wolf howl coming from deep below your waistline
can't hear nothing between your eyes and your eardrums
I can feel your heart goin' thum-bum thum-bum
'cause I've been cursed by desire
it's Mad Love baby, she's makin' me a liar
I want you fit to be tied
it should be no surprise
you've got to keep it alive
til I get mine
and you get yours
and we both come
but we won't tell
so don't tell
no don't tell
frantically crawling the club
searching for someone to love
or someone to own
someone to take home
can't be alone
cause nobody sees
all got the needs
conscious a disease
can't be alone
and I'll make you mine
I'll be all you see
I'm gonna slip inside
and take a piece of you with me
hecubii are loose on the night again
It happens out here every night
when the darkness comes alive
in piles, alone, in pairs
something dirty everywhere
when you're on your knees
down in Volunteer Park
I aim to please.
Hands under tables at Septiemme
In the bathrooms at the Cuff
when you need a man
we go Cha-Cha-Cha-Cha Lounging
when we want a little room
always someone waiting at the Rendesvouz
(Rachel Weir)
Come
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
In your dreams you belong to us
We'll make you feel alright
We'll make you feel all right
Girl I'm gonna love you
From your Fenix to your Twilight Exit
(Michael Crenshaw from Suckapunch)
In the City of Night
Come out and play people
Come
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
In your dreams you belong to us
We'll make you feel alright
We'll make you feel all right
We'll make it last all night.
Come
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
Come out and play people
In the City of Night
In your dreams you belong to us
We'll make you feel alright
We'll make you feel all right
We'll make it last all night.
We'll see it in your eyes
You need it in your life
I believe it's time
For us to make it right
Fueling the fire
All this time
It's our time
It's our time
Your fate is sealed
I've seen your type before
but you won't know
until it's too late
I know you feel
howling doggie at your door
tonight's the climax
and I'm your date
Get up now
and do it again
Time to show you
who I am
what makes you think
tonight will be different
get hard, or go home
I'm giving all my lies to you
and I know your every move
hands of hips held down so tight
you taste so good I want a bite
gonna slit your skin with kisses
blood viscous and delicious
hit, fuck, cut, bound, love the hurt
turn around, bend down
gonna take a turn
Maryjane, Mad Love making scenes
sneaky dirty things
So here's the deal
I feel you getting warm
I'm a believer sexy, cruel fate
Let's hear you squeal
bark and squirm and sweat for more
melt in my mouth hey I love the taste
let up now, let's take it to bed
you need a little discipline
I think that tonight will be different
hurts good, control
and I'm giving all my love to you
and I know you can't be true
catch your lover cheating from a submarine
robot bellydancing in your dreams
catch your lover cheating from a submarine
robot bellydancing in your dreams
so nice, so far to go
it's alright, I'm in control
And I'm taking all the love from you
and I gave it all up to you
And you're faking everything you do
Now I take my turn with you
In this fight for control
You're feeling so cold
It's getting so old
There's nothing to hold
You're getting so bold
In this fight for control
Loving doesn't have to hurt
Loving doesn't have to hurt.
Anything dangerous,
anything dangerous
I can't resist
The night comes in late
brings you back home
what a surprise
you've not been alone
Let's start the show
with your typical story
it's getting so old
you should tell me her name
But you tell me your lies
tell me your lies
tell me your lies...
I can hear you thinking
I bet I know
I think you do too
mistakes can fly fast
if they get a push
tell me her name
before you get a chance to think
but you tell me your lies
with kisses
You are away
on this wicked day.
You're not alone
You are stained
with kisses.
I can hear you
I can hear you thinking
I made you a man
but she's taken your heart
you used to shine
now you're in the dark
it's just that anything dangerous
I can't resist
love doesn't have to hurt
but sometimes it does
with kisses
You are away
on this wicked day.
You leave me alone
that's the way
with kisses.
Oh clever man --
think you got it figured out?
What if I'm the one
sees the lie inside your heart?
Your plans make my heart
Oh clever man --
what's it all about?
Don't think I'm the one
playing a little part.
You are away
on this wicked day.
Not with me
You're in pain
from kisses
Oh clever man --
now that the truth is out
You know I'm the one
wanted it from the start.
MR HAZE
When your head spins
and your hands shake
when the mistakes
that we make
stir the sleeping dogs
they wake
hearts and promises
that I break
It's a song
it's a bad, bad song
last night I watched the teardrops fall
all the love came down, spilled out
memory saves these moments
traps us so we can't get out
where the lights are much too bright
see everything I did tonight
and the night goes on too long
and I can't find anyone
that's fine, she said
that's why she said
it's so terrible, what a wanting heart can do
MS MAD LOVE
Got a hungry skin
And a thirsty heart
Sometimes, sometimes
It’s so hard to tell them apart
It’s so terrible
What a wanting heart can do
I only want you
When you want me too
And is what I want so cruel
See through
Suits you
When you know it can’t come true
When you make it three
The wickedest to be
Misunderstandingly
So tragically
I’m a fighter
Love moonlighter
Hope outsider
Your desire
She has
Made me
Feel like
Someday
We can
Break free
MARYJANE
I'm getting all your tongue
I'm waiting on your tongue
Don't want to get too high
Can we find in this life a lover
Are we fine in this life forever
Are we fine
Going on the side
Going on the sly
And I fear in my mind
Can't rely
Just lay awake and dream of us
I'm begging you to claim my heart
Can we believe in all this love
I sit alone at the corner table
sharing’s hard
On my own
No one home
They’re both gone
It’s tragic
Used to have a girl
Went for a whirl
End of the world
It’s magic
In the City of night
where you can’t go right
Gotta hold on tight
fantastic
Where Maryjane
Said Mr. Haze
Oh yes I came
yeah I had it
Fate points the finger
right at you
I know you wonder
How I went under
Tasting all the others
Climactic
Take you to the parties
With the writhing bodies
And the pills, broken wills, love spills
Evaporates
Fate points the finger
right at you
Someday fate or some mysterious force
For no good reason at all
fate points the finger
in the city of night
Sometimes fantasies come true and they're still not real.
Image by: fogpeople | © copyright 2006