Name: The Open Plain
Channel: Matt Scott / John Pfeifer
Description: Free MP3 download. It's Friday, it's 4:30- and everybody else is drunk. Joel Edwards -- Perky bass; John Pfeifer--Lead and background vocals, acoustic 6 & 12-string and electric guitars, music; Matthew Scott--Keyboards, drum programming, rolling head, lyrics

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It's Friday, it's 4:30- and everybody else is drunk. Joel Edwards -- Perky bass; John Pfeifer--Lead and background vocals, acoustic 6 & 12-string and electric guitars, music; Matthew Scott--Keyboards, drum programming, rolling head, lyrics

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The Editors of Life

An amalgam of anything that passes thru one ear and out the other -- see our Interview page for details.

In our music, you'll hopefully find everything -- rock, orchestral, trip-hop, spacey/ambient, whatever -- most times all in one tune!! Mwah-ha-ha.... We follow no labels, guidelines, trends -- we write what we feel at any given moment; industrial one moment, folk the next. You might hear smatterings of Floyd/Waters/Gilmour, a touch of Mike Nesmith, some Metheny, maybe even some Vangelis or 80's pop, classic rock, sheer noise, Air, Terje Rypdal, and if you really stretch in order to make us seem more relevant to the times, maybe some of The Shins, Sigur Ros, etc. Basically anything that makes a noise can inspire us.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Avant Rock

Charts

#4 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #4

Author

Matt Scott / John Pfeifer

Rights

John Pfeifer / Matt Scott

Uploaded

December 01, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Your typical bustling, boozy panorama on any college campus, on any Friday afternoon/night, in any year, in Anytown, USA.  (Oddly, considering  it's vintage, it has one of John's favorite solos/guitar-sounds; 'bout as funky as he'll ever manage.  Octaves, indeed...)

Lyrics

Night falls across the open plain,
     like a crow stalking it's prey.
Stupid people laughing in the wind
     make me want to call it a day.

     Caught up in your own pathetic
     little social circle,
     with no room for me...

Friday afternoon on the open plain;
     people -- well, they're walking everywhere.
Abuse your liver, annoy the parents.
     Grow a beard and dye your hair.

"Well, you've exhausted your usefulness with
     me," she said as she walked out of the car.

     Unexplained tensions rise in the air
     like the steam from the street.
     Everybody knows it's not your friends,
     but the people you don't meet...

...Sign in please watch your step;
'Cause you just don't know where you are.
Please don't touch -- leave your name;
smile as you stay the same...

     '

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AlexisPatrick

Dec 13, 2021

Excellent vocals and lyrics. Your music is greatly pure Alternative. Brilliant musicianship.