GLORIUM__PAST LIFE RECORDINGS

__CINEMA PELIGROSA __ECLIPSE __PAST LIFE RECORDINGS __CLOSE YOUR EYES __FANTASMAS	PAST LIFE RECORDINGS - 1997 01. CHEMICAL ANGEL 02. GROUNDFLOOR 03. MADONNA 04. DIVEBOMB 05. BELIEVE IN NOTHING 06. COLLISION 07. HOLE IN YOUR ART 08. ASHES 09. POISONS 10. SOUND ASLEEP 11. ICED THE SWELLING 12. FEARLESS	Past Life Recordings was released May of 1997. The material was recorded in 1992 in San Antonio and Austin at Lone Star Studio. Comprised of 12 songs and two of Glorium's first singles it's like a first album that was released third, in the EV style of publishing older punk stuff.
	CHEMICAL ANGEL Let's get out of here and go for a ride Cut us a path through the dark outside Man it smells like something died An angel swims in the shimmering night A light up ahead, are we heading for it? A signal, a sign, are you gonna adore it? One hundred miles per hour like a screaming Medea Something lies still in the middle of the street I am glowing with energy I can see everything I just got fired it is so much more My job was just a glistening a vibrating sore New night dawning it's electric and cool With a silver white moon it's a chemical jewel Everyone's nervous about the alien bug Everyone's falling into my view Yelling out a warning, handing out a drug With wings on fire shot out of the night Sweating out a river from deep in my brain All of my past lives are sucked down the drain A fragile vessel floating on a forty day rain Like everything is gonna begin again	PAUL: This song began as George's bassline, and we all jammed on it. I remember writing it in Ernest's old garage on King's Court St. Our friend came over, Jason Cotrell, and we played it for him. His reaction was, "That sounds like Mudhoney mixed with Fugazi."
	GROUNDFLOOR There are cities and everybody's moving around I can make little noises Our batteries are running down Kiss capitol goodbye / Where I let it lie Where I let it sound Where everything's unwound I can take another stroll around the structure Pull the cork, forget the proper nouns I can make another trip to the mailbox Put the flag up, tear it down Down to the ground Floor Where I let it sound Where everything's unwound Unwind There are plenty of lights in the sky shining down A million dots in your eyes Sixteen ounces in a pound I can make another call on the phone But there's enough lines in my skin So bring the poles down Down to the ground floor Where I let it sound Where everything's unwound	PAUL: This began as a riff that Lino had and we took it to George and his brother Tony first I believe. Tony had this super fast complicated drum beat he was playing with it. It was awesome. Juan changed that quite a bit and made it more about the toms and low sounding rythms.
	MADONNA I finally met Madonna, de nada, Madonna I'd seen her before / We sat on the floor Put her hand on my neck And smoked on my pipe I didn't mind that I'm an enduring type, Madonna With her man Cash, whose in my Hum class Never seen anybody built so squarely Or so damn hairy Now I understand the lord has given me a man Now I understand the lord has given, Madonna We were listening to rock Her friends on her left His friends on his right His hand on his crotch Can't you see suffering will always be me, Madonna? Sometimes people can never be close	PAUL: Madonna was a VU style song that Lino first came up with. He wrote the lyrics as well. I usually sing it a lot looser if we do it these days.
	DIVEBOMB I thought about the past, I thought about control I was coming in last, Now I can't move slow Never was wrong I said yes not no Going so fast to go so goddamn low Picked up momentum picked up speed Losing everything by gaining the lead A one-way ride down a slippery slide All of my memories crash and collide Divebomb I'm alive I'm on I was just a bullet shot down from the sky Not sure why I ever fucking try Not sure how I'm gonna live this through Look out of my window At the bottom it's you North is at the top Feeling force of drop The bottom is the stop Stop	PAUL: We hear more requests for this song than any other. It's funny because it's the first song we wrote together. We were at KVRX at UT with johnboy and Joey Edwards was Djing. He played this, and Barry or Tony said that sounds like Lungfish. We had never heard of Lungfish. So then he played a johnboy song, and Ern said, let's hear some Helmet.
	BELIEVE IN NOTHING One man in the circus who used to eat fire Wiped his nose on his sleeve and said "Believe, Believe in nothing." That's what he told me, and I believed And I believed it Believe in nothing Don't believe a word that they say And hey where do they preach it? Where do they teach? Where do they teach it? Believe don't believe There was nobody there that could bind me If I try to enroll myself in and shave off the last of my hair, then there's Believe, believe in nothing I'm not taking you anywhere There was nobody there that could bind me Now I'm a man and I live in a box I suck on rocks, hold nothing close to my heart Say don't believe it, Believe in nothing Because it's tradition We've done that for a million years Now do you see it? Do hear me? Well don't believe me? Those who tell me don't really know Where do they preach it? Where do they teach? Where do they preach it? Believe don't believe There was nobody there that could bind me	PAUL: Believe was one of Lino's songs. The lyrics are partly from an old Crowbar song which was based around a Buddhist proverb, but mostly Linus wrote all the verses in the Glorium version.
	COLLISION What is your name and who made that call? Some scientist who fell in a hole Some god-crazed Italian who sailed on the sea? Looking for some land that was free? There's no turning back How does it go and who says so? The one who wrote the book doesn't know I went real low but I won't fall I built it up and I shattered it all Sometimes I think that I am sometimes I think I need a shack that I can strap on my back Take on soul-hunting trips so at least I can rest Lick dust from my lips, mouth a kiss to the air A stable here for when I'm there	PAUL: Collision was something that Lino brought to practice. It's very Sonic Youth influenced from the guitars standpoint. He wrote the lyrics too.
	HOLE IN YOUR ART Know that in time it will be where it should be And all of these thoughts of me, of insufficiency will pass and they will be replaced, erased by memories without a trace of doubt that it can't survive with what it is without I couldn't make the play or play the part I couldn't find the dot on the chart I couldn't take the day or get the day to start Things listed promised to complete But hid under a pile of reminders that are always missed, so I made a list Enjoying the easiness of defeat But I won't be beat by that fist Stay under for awhile but in the meantime I'm digging through the file I couldn't take the day or get the day to start I couldn't find the hole in your heart I was waiting for the starting shot So I can start shaking loose the rot I know this must be taught everyday Every obstacle must be fought Every battle that be overcome must be treated like the last one I hold tight all of the lessons I learn Until the time is right for me to burn it	PAUL: This is one of the first songs we wrote in Austin on E 50th St.
	POISONS Went out for the night Told you I'd like try my own poisons You said "Not on your life." Asleep in the tunnel Under the beast I see hot breathing rise up from the streets It's winter here in this time zone The falling numbers say it's time to go I've died, I've already died, goodbye A broken man has his hand out We walk on by Our hands in our pockets We don't speak / I don't ask why	PAUL: Ernest had this one from his time in Providence jamming with some guys in a group called Sangamon. I wrote new lyrics for it inspired by New York City streets. Linus came up with the lines about poisons and time zones.
	ASHES One line to remind me maybe just one word I can't remember what has just occurred Something's always happening to me Something's tattooed on my mind The water I left running someone I left behind Do you remember this? I still have the picture It was just another kiss Thoughts travel fast but I don't know where I blew away the past with one suck of ash	PAUL: I think this one began as Lino's riff, and then we all jammed on it. I think it has a bit of a Nirvana influence in it.
	SOUND ASLEEP I sit back eyes soft focus I am drained / Can't feel a thing I am untouchable I am unreachable I am unrecognizeable What did I do today? Lay my head back/ And then the ringing Getting clearer / Getting nearer Someone's singing in the mirror Getting closer, getting further away What did I do today? What did I do today?	PAUL: I really like this one, how there's not so many words. It's the feeling of fading away.
	ICED THE SWELLING I've got a gut feeling about this one I've got some gut feelings about this There's something missing And it's getting old Cut me to pieces if you need to feel whole Breaking that boundary Now I'm growing Breaking that boundary so you're cutting me down It starts here how about now? Iced the swelling but it's not going down Outside is the sun How high is the sun? I was as high as the sun You're not the only one I'm so sick of the sun So tired of the sun Do you think it's well lit? It's not the only one Am I willing to kill? Would I kill this one? Would I kill for this? Am I willing to kill this one? No I'm in the middle stuck hard The thick of the tar It's time to pull out please don't stand in my way What you gave me pulling me under Let me glow like a sun or lock me away It's a big enough crack, a thick enough space Some light may seep in on my face You keep me beneath the line of visibility Did I kill this time wastefully? We treat each other so tastefully	PAUL: Jason McNeely told me that this song inspired him to form a group with three guitars called Windsor For the Derby. He said we made two guitars sound like three and he thought that was the coolest thing. I think we were trying to write the most dramatic song we possibly could. The beginning intro from George is very brainy and he's playing all these weird chords that I think he picked up from a classical composer. The intro was a jam that we recorded and loved the looseness of it, wanted to join this loose intro with a tighter body.
	FEARLESS This is the bottom line Fearless showed his ugly face Beautiful, it's beautifu Yeah I've seen that before uncountable times Uncountable times I've seen it This is the hour to rebuild the jaws of resistance I'm devoted to another cause Break down the laws of power Resistance Power Resist These are violent days Rage of youth, I want change But I can't be afraid of the violence	PAUL: Fearless was written once we were living in Austin, a part of our second batch of songs which are all more aggressive and noisy. The arrangement idea came from jamming, reviewing the rehearsal tapes, and liking the way it organically changed from a stop-start thing into a flowing driving thing, sort of a race to the end, then returning to the beginning to start the process over again.





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