Buca

from Maven by Wide-Eyed

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The song is about a former clown who has a breakdown, in a restaurant that happened to share this clown's (former) name.
It's the anguish of this essentially forgotten person, who used to bring laughs, now brings tragedy to the world.

The song also expresses the surreal nature of such a sudden event that is usually outside most peoples' experiences, as well as the shocking nature of sudden and seemingly random violence.


The song was very intentionally chaotic in sound and feel, to echo the disturbed headspace of the former clown's mind. Sounds were engineered and produced in such a way as to sound "inverted" in a way, and be constantly shifting attention from instrument to instrument (or effect).

The band released a more stripped down version of this song, on the Sky Pipes collection. The decision of which version would appear on the final album, went back and forth between the members, up until the final (or near final) mixes, help nudge the decision, in favor of this version.


On a completely opposite, and less serious note, the band's cat, Chauncy, can be heard on a few recordings, but his one "vocal" in this song, was so perfectly timed, we chose to keep it. He always wanted to be involved, and in retrospect, we are both glad we kept this vocal performance from him.
He was truly Chauncy the wondercat.

lyrics

Buca
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From your mouth
Invisible clown lips move
One and the same
The restaurant and his stage name

Beppo, Beppo...
Beppo___

Glimpse the obsession
Then hide the regression
There are already plans in place
In the basement

Innocent eater
At lunch from his job
I am witness to the horror
A hit from an imagined mob

From his mouth
Soft words
Before the shouting began
He never even ran

Beppo, Beppo...
Beppo___

Blood, wine or tomato sauce,
No one can distinguish the three
You'd better have another drink
To look again and see
If what you think you saw
Was really what you thought you saw
And if it was all really true

("Raow")

Glimpse the aggression
That led to the transgression
All could see the plan taking place
In the basement

From their mouths
Lips shape the words
That cannot begin to tell
Just how far
This clown
Fell__

credits

from Maven, released September 28, 2004
Tina: Vocal, Bass
Patrick: Guitar, Drums
Chauncy The Wondercat: Guest Vocal

Recorded by Patrick and Tina
Mixed and Mastered by Patrick
Produced by Tina and Patrick

Words and Music ©2004
Tina Lambright / Patrick Pyne
p 2004 Soundpropeller Records

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Wide-Eyed Ypsilanti, Michigan

Formed in the beginning of 2001, Wide-Eyed is Tina Lambright and Patrick Pyne. Despite being a duo, they rotated instruments for recordings to make full, band-oriented songs of varying sounds and styles. Their music can be generally described as experimental pop, or psychedelic rock, but avoiding cliches of any genre. Serious, funny, abstract or direct, despite the dressing, enjoyment is the focus ... more

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