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Ghost Electricity​/​Vampire Draw

by Richard Edwards

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    GE/VD fell out of me very quickly. Towards the very end of the process, as often happens, I wrote two additional songs and gathered the gang together for one last album session. Somewhere along the line I became convinced these two songs would curse the album and at the last minute they were removed. It was a huge mistake and those recordings have remained on my personal GE/VD playlist. They make it feel complete to me. So I decided to trust myself and issue what I consider to be the definitive cut of the record. All about love and time. I hope it feels definitive to you, too. This is the definitive 180 gram LP release of the final solo album of new material.

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Holy Spirit 03:38
Take me to bed It’s on in a minute I can feel it Taste starts to change Smell ain’t the same The Holy Spirit! You got a hole in your head Got a hole in your head where all my gloom goes Just where it wanna A fuse blows Just cuz it’s gotta To the hole in your head The hole in your head Off of my mood From Stormy and rude To a mind most mellow Nothin’s the same Hours don’t change And light lands easy On the hole in your head There’s a hole in your head where all my blues go Something ignites And the fuse blows Mama, you oughta know Got a hole in your head The hole in your head I feel a ray of hope! I feel a rush of dope- -amine you’ve given me… Since you have given me… I feel a ray of hope I feel a rush of dope- -amine you’ve given me… Since you have me… The hole in your head The hole in your head The hole in your head The hole in your head
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Ketamine 03:52
Went to Chicago, had some ketamine Surveyed the city from my limousine Baby, I have loved you since I was 17 And I need you to know Lord, when I left you I got blown apart I have returned to build you Noah’s ark And save you from the wicked work on which I have embarked Since you were last in my heart I say what I wanna say I do what I wanna do And right now, baby blue I wanna spend my time with you I wanna spend my time with You——— You-------- My love I feel it deep within my gut And I can swear I saw our minds melt together Feet turn to feathers And mountains beneath us Yes ma’am I get the feeling that I am And I can swear I saw our pasts sewn together Heads full of feathers And nothing between us I say what I wanna say I do what I wanna do And right now, baby blue I wanna spend my time with you I wanna spend my time… I go where I wanna go My mind is a rodeo And that’s why, baby I wanna spend my time with you I wanna my time with you You------ You——— Love This time I’m hoping it’s enough I wanna know you till the whole hog expires The world goes to fire And there’s nothing left but ocean
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Holy moly mama I’ve got eggs inside my brain Holy moly mama I am not myself again I’ve got blues, baby Like, how we ever gonna last? I rock a monastery mood Gentle as a heart attack Pull the pin out Blow the highway down, down, down Pull the pin out Burn the whole thing down What am I doin? Like I’ve nothin left but time, time, time? I get a low and lethal feeling Sometimes But you are always on my mind You are alway on my mind You’re always on my mind Holy moly mama, I’ve a lovely little thought Let’s move to Estonia Build a castle outta rocks Shed our blues, baby Drown em in our gator moat Howl at macaroni moons From our window Pull the pin out Blow the highway down, down, down Pull the pin out Burn the whole thing down What am I doin? Like I’ve nothin left but time, time, time? I’ve got a light and lily feeling This time you are always on my mind You are always on my mind…. You are always on my mind You’re always on my mind
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Love 03:39
Mama, something’s burning in my eye Oh no, not you again Salve and soothe my afternoon Come over here Cut me a little slack Cuz when I feel it in my bones When I feel that ancient jones That’s when I know I’m in love That’s when I know I’m in love Cuz the sun doesn’t shine Till I see you again And it hurts like hell ‘Till eventually I give in to your… Love
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Benzedrine 03:34
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Golden Moses 05:19
You know I liked it but I never thought You would leave your boyfriend for too very long It was just enough to make protected love in that room But I could listen to Golden Moses While you brush your sister’s hair Get her dressed for school and out the door When your ma’s had it up to here When she’s had enough When you find the thing that you love When you find the thing that you love When you find the thing that you love Tie it up Tie it up It’ll last all night if you do You know I liked it but I never claimed I would leave my lily pad for so far away It was just enough to dip my toes into your ocean But I could listen to Golden Moses While you drink your poppy tea, baby I’ve had enough… When you find the thing that you love When you find the thing that you love When you find the thing that you love Tie it up Tie it up It’ll last all night if you do Gimme some time, mama Cuz I need to know how to get my mind off of her memory While my hand’s around your throat Give me some time, mama Don’t grind your teeth Or make me up and cop that I believed in heaven In those California sheets, when you said “Baby, come over here I wanna read your palm And tell you all the lines where the things go wrong In this one you’re a bumbling bum cuz some bum got gone” Ah, whatever, just take me home Take me home I think I could love you.
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Lost in a dream Tracing the spot where you said I could squeeze I got lost in a dream Like Hedy Lamarr on methamphetamine And I stayed in love almost all night While you chased your shadow Yes, I stayed in love Almost all night Lost in a dream Pacing the beach where you swore you would be I got lost in my dream Try and find me And I’ll stay in love Almost all night While you ball me to tears I will stay in love Almost all night Hey baby I want black love Sprung forth from nuthin’ but mud Hey baby, I wantchoo But only when I hate every glimpse of kindness in the mirror When I’m slimy as a worm, When I’m drunk and missing her, hey Hey baby I wantchoo c’mere Hey if I can find no way to tell you If I’m overcast or blue Or I don’t know what to do Will you sever my head? Devour my dread? Will you say that you do when you don’t? And I’ll be easy Yes ma’am So easy Hey baby I want black love Sprung forth from nuthin’ but mud Hey baby, I wantchoo But only when I hate every glimpse of kindness in the mirror When I’m slimy as a worm, When I’m drunk and missing her, hey Hey baby I wantchoo c’mere Are you lost? Lost Lost In your dream Are you Lost Lost Lost in your dream You’re it I found you
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I sit and I squirm Try to observe each breath as it leaves me Then greet its return I squirm And I think of her sometimes So I start again I sit and I squirm Unpack the past Send it out for the weekend, hope it never comes back I squirm when I think of you sometimes So it goes… I hear a ghost! I hear a ghost I hear a ghost and see Freud On The Beach Drunk in the sun If you see me comin’ you better run Oh, while poor little rich bitch bangs on her drum I come back to you in the dark I miss you when I’m soft So I gotta stay hard When I cannot stand who I am Oh my baby blue I feel glued to “it was” this evening Thought I’d lose it when I said that mantra, yeah When I’m with a woman and she blows my mind I forget you, baby, every time! …But where are you tonight My darling? Oh, my darling, while I sit and I squirm
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The Mad Bomber’s on my mind Some nascent paranoia that I cannot define The mad bomber’s on my mind Been starin’ at your movie I think I’m going blind Could’ve only been a summer Could’ve only been a day Could be my imagination Could be many things at play So hold me in your bony arms Before I float away The Mad Bomber’s on my mind A new and thrilling impulse To live a life of crime I find myself unsteady against the howling winds of time I love you, now you’re leaving Well, I won’t be far behind.

about

"The most underrated songwriter of our times" - Los Angeles Review Of Books.

Last autumn, at an experimental clinic in Chicago, Richard Edwards (Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s) sat with an IV in his arm, ketamine slipping its way into his obstinate body. Not long before that, also there, in the windy city he’d once called home during the zenith of his Margot days, he had a doctor pop a nerve in his neck. When asked if it worked, Richard says that it didn’t not work. Our bodies and minds go through crucibles of varying kinds as we live, and we get good at taking the licks, but something remains below skin. Even when we’re in love: there is a current of pain that we pretend not to feel, humming. What would it feel like, to tap into that current–not with fear, but with courtesy and steady attention? Could we not use it as a power source of some type? Richard Edwards went on a trip last year, and then a new record fell out. Ghost Electricity/Vampire Draw premieres on vinyl and streaming on October 7, preceded by “Ketamine.”
-Matt Metzler

GE/VD fell out of me very quickly. Towards the very end of the process, as often happens, I wrote two additional songs and gathered the gang together for one last album session. Somewhere along the line I became convinced these two songs would curse the album and at the last minute they were removed. It was a huge mistake and those recordings have remained on my personal GE/VD playlist. They make it feel complete to me. So I decided to trust myself and issue what I consider to be the definitive cut of the record. All about love and time. I hope it feels definitive to you, too.

To make it up to you we’ve pressed this definitive edition on 180 gram and made a new gatefold. To further make it up, if you order this we’ll send you a free record from a couple promo boxes we’ve unearthed. Comment your choice with your order. Here is the menu. Whichever you comment will be included with your Ghost Electricity/Vampire Draw - Director’s Cut.

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released January 14, 2024

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Richard Edwards (Margot & the Nuclear So and So's) has been making music in public since 2003.

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