Incident Book

by Empires Decline

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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) They call it "post-prog dreamy powerpop" themselves... well, why not? I really go for post-prog, and I really go for this song, so it might quite possibly be something like that. It's a kind of sophisticated and, at the same time, easy-going music, full of good vibrations, much like... yeah, really, even Brian Wilson couldn't have done it any better! Incidentally, this is another item found on Alan Benjamin's wishlist.

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How about that! Not only does Jellyfish alumni and Beck keyboardist Joseph Roger Manning Jr like our new song, he also offered to sing the lead vocal on it!

So here it is - our most ambitious production to date: 3 vocalists, many guitars, dozens of keyboards and drums and bass all for the benefit of your aural health.

If you like it, please buy yourself your very own copy and contribute towards the continued creation of our (very) independent music.

Even better, you can overpay... for the price of a coffee you can enjoy some proggy dreamscape power-pop and help us raise some coin!

Artwork: Michal Janowski

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Empires Decline are:

Guitar: Danny Rowe
Vocals/Guitar: Teddy Powell
Drums: Dan Guest
Vocals: Kate McQuaide
Bass: Dan Clark
Keyboards: Phillip Jeffries

Guest Vocal: Roger Joseph Manning Jr

*Lyrics*

Great romantics of the office space
they compete in the love rat race
the icy glances and the selfies you took
I wrote them down in the incident book

Daylight savings girl when ever you can
You make the most of your office tan

Whether out of ink or paper jam
There's no document that you can't scan
but in the place where pages never get stuck
I wrote your name in the incident book.

Daydreaming of your ideal man
Your fancy sweetheart bureaucrat
It’s giving me an HR attack

You don't remember me
we first met when Dave from sales stole your stapler
As he pulled the metal rivets from his eyes I said
you don’t remember me

You don't remember me
I never mind it when you risk my health and safety
when I write it all down on the dotted line you still
you don’t remember me

God only knows I know I'm nothing much
but next to paper cuts you're special
god only knows If you speak to me today
I'm just writing away

The bumbling jacket-loving lackey race
They convene in the smoking space
but you can wear the whole tobacco look
and leave a stain in my incident book

You bring your own lunch in when you can
You'd never steal a sandwich from the sandwich man

the most resourceful human ever made
it's like you cheer us up without being paid
I feel so sunny when I'm in your shade
you cast a shadow on the incident page

Daydreaming of your ideal man
Your fancy sweetheart bureaucrat
It’s giving me an HR attack

The love we made
In unit seventeen
Began with your name
And ended in the incident book

credits

released December 24, 2018
Empires Decline are:

Guitar: Danny Rowe
Vocals/Guitar: Teddy Powell
Drums: Dan Guest
Vocals: Kate McQuaide
Bass: Dan Clark
Keyboards: Phillip Jeffries

Guest Vocal: Roger Joseph Manning Jr

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