The Organ Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B i o g r a p h y
(by J. Ryan Boyd)

The Organ are a Vancouver quintet, formed in 2001. In a short space of time, this all female ensemble gained rapid exposure with the release of their first EP, Sinking Hearts; and a live show that has spirited them on stage with some of the most significant bands today. A critical and popular favourite, The Organ write melodic and introspective music based on layered interplay between their instrumentalists - Debora Cohen, guitar; Ashley Webber, bass; Shelby Stocks, drums; Jenny Smyth, Hammond organ - and the intimate and doleful lyrics of their lead singer, Katie Sketch. In 2003, The Organ signed a co-record deal with both Mint and 604 Records. As a result, The Organ recorded their debut record, Grab That Gun, which was just released on May 25, 2004. The Organ's "sound" has been commented on and debated over from the very beginning, so great is the fascination that it inspires. "The Organ's melancholy melodies are intoxicating," writes Cyndi Elliot of Magnet Magazine. The band is consistently compared with the best songwriters of the early '80s new-wave, writing structured songs around minimal arrangements, and creating a nuanced, textured sound that can be brooding and catchy at the same time. The best of many bands can be found here - whether it is the weaving counterpoint melodies between organ and bass; the lean, bell-like intonation of sparkling guitars; the charmed tenacity of the snare; or the suspended lamentation of Sketch's cascading vocals - and much excitement is borne out of the desire to name The Organ's sound in precise terms. "The Organ does it so well, it's hard to believe these kids are in their early 20s," writes John Parish of The Big Takeover. "It makes me feel better than the electronic craziness of some of those 'I love the '80s' bands, and almost as sad as I used to feel in the 1980s, and I love 'em for it." For their own part, the band accepts the associations with an amused detachment. "Originally I was trying to do something a little more rock, like Elastica," says Sketch, "but obviously it didn't work out that way."

The Organ have played with a wide variety of contemporary bands such as Interpol, Hot Hot Heat, The Walkmen, The Von Bondies, The Soledad Brothers and Bratmobile; and most recently finished a tour across North America with Mint's New Pornographers. The band has become well-known for the somber intensity of their live performances, which they happily acknowledge as involving very little physical movement on-stage. "That's the only way we can be," says Sketch. "If I paid Debora a million dollars to jump up and down, she wouldn't. That's just her personality." "The Organ's approach is classic European detachment," writes Michael White of Calgary's FFWD, "It creates an enveloping mood, and fully complements the music's soulful melancholy." And perhaps it is a testament to the saliency of Sketch's dark lyrical themes - which range from interpersonal relationships to politics - that The Organ is so often perceived as a wholly melancholy affair. Organist Jenny Smyth is herself caught between the band's music and its rueful subject matter: "The Organ's music sounds really happy and cheerful so I always get really shocked when people say 'your music is so sad and emotional' and I'm like *really*!? I think it sounds like *la* *la* *la*..." With so much attention already devoted to The Organ's sound and presentation, there remains nevertheless a lasting captivation with their distinction as an all female band. "Other people tend to point it out," muses Smyth, "'Oh, an all girl band!' and I'm like, 'I'm a girl?'" "I'm just playing with my friends," says Sketch. "We wouldn't have cared if we'd found some really great boys to play with us, but instead we found some really great girls." Still, the distinction is not without significance, as drummer Shelby Stocks knows first-hand: her seventh-grade band teacher took her drumsticks away and gave them to a boy, informing her that girls don't play the drums. "There was a part of me that wanted to prove him wrong - that girls can actually play. What an idiot."

Brother

Here we go
They're back again
Look alive, warn your friends
We are warm and we are safe
Enjoy it while you can
Before things change

We have got to take cover
Brother
We have got to take cover
Brother

Lie down in a field if you can
Look at the night sky
Oh, where does it end
Sometimes it hurts when you
Care about me
But it's going to hurt more when
They take you away from me
We have go to take cover, brother
We have got to take cover, brother

Here we go again
Oh midnight knocks
Oh explosions
Maybe it's all made up in our heads
This happens to me when i'm bored
Or depressed

Here is the best part of the song
Where I admit that i might be wrong
Because if they are good and if they are right
Then they'll have their rapture one
Of these nights
But if they are wrong

Steven Smith

As I was saying
I know that i’ve been one of the few
Who walks away from you
Steven smith, we all lose
One look at you
And they’re suddenly covered in shrapnel too
It’s true, most die in your bedroom

All the time i’m getting shot
Oh, barrels roll and hammers drop
Come on now
Grab that gun and we’ll go drive around
Until there’s no sound

Come on, let’s go
I said I am driving and I am driving
It's true, I’ve got something for you

When everything is quiet
The ringing in our ears will seem awfully violent
And then there will be silence
Then there will be silence

Love, Love, Love

See the people sitting over there
I want to kiss and touch them everywhere
Oh no, not because i really care
Oh God, no, no, I wouldn’t dare

Love, love
I’d really like a small part of it
Oh love
I cant believe the word love

He’s had love in damp alleys
In city hall, in city libraries
We smoked it underneath the playground

Slide
Why did i try

Oh love
We cry so very much about it
Oh love
Obsessing in the night about it
Oh love
I’d really like a small part of it
Oh love, love , love

Okay , that’s enough of that
Okay, okay now that’s enough of that
I’m getting very tired of the facts
I’m getting very tired of the fact that

I must be right
Oh, it must be right
That’s why i,m cold and alone again
That’s why i’m all on my own again
That’s why i’m throwing things around my
Home again
That’s why
I’m looking for love

Basement Band Song

If i pay you five dollars will you try to make my bed?
If i pay you ten will you make me well instead?
I love your baby baby harmonies
You really brighten up my basement suite

We should go down to the mall
Look at people , judge them all
Judge them before they judge us and leave there feeling bad

We should sit and pick our hands
I think you’re a genius
And when we make your hangnails bleed
You deserve a phd

We should put that record on
The one you found when you were gone
The one that has those sad, sad songs
And makes you sing out loud

We could start a basement band
Guitar hooks caught in your hands
Will travel through the west side nights
And drown out humming street lights

Sinking Hearts

Remember when i left you
I couldn’t say your name
Or other crucial things like i love you
Oh, that’s a shame
Oh no, i think i’m falling
Oh no, i think i’m fine
Our hearts didn’t come together
But i saw the two collide

I can the see the hearts sinking

Remember when i left you
I couldn’t say your name
Or other crucial things like i love you
Oh, that’s a shame
I don’t know if you’re hearing
My voice or the reprise
Our hearts didn’t come together
But i saw the two collide

I can see the hearts sinking

A Sudden Death

Day after day, they go
They go to gain just a little more control
And when they took yours away
I couldn’t sleep at all
I lay in bed for days

I died a sudden death
I made an awful mess
I didn’t stand a chance
I didn’t stand a chance

‘Cause when we where our best
I could care less if people bred themselves to death
Oh, but now that you are gone
I just know that everything is wrong

Don’t leave me alone now…

There Is Nothing I Can Do

My neck hurts
‘Cause i’ve been cutting moons
My hands hurts
‘Cause i cut them from you

So someone snuck into your room
And it got back to me
Now, i lie here in my room
And there is nothing i can do
But cut and think about you

I Am Not Surprised

I am not surprised

I got my head caught underneath the ice
No, i am not surprised
That i got my big head
Caught underneath the ice
And on it goes…

Someway , somehow
I’m going out now
It’s all about myself
And i’m on to someone else

Well, i know that you are near
But i feel alone even when you’re here
I know that you are near
But i feel alone even when you’re here
And on it goes

No One Has Ever Looked So Dead

It really shook you when i said
“no one has ever looked so dead”
Well, it’s over and i can’t go there anymore

And in the backseat of your car
You showed me every single star
And how the zenith and the sounds
Change in every single town
Well, it’s over and i can’t go there anymore

Memorize The City

Oh, darkness filled the sky as pools of water filled your eyes
They sparkled like phosphorescence in the bay
Although our lips barely touched
I have never felt so much
And i’d really like to feel that way again
Oh, oh, when

I walk through the streets and memorize the city
I count every light until i reach the shore
Sometimes i close my eyes and you’re not very pretty
Sometimes i can’t believe i’ve had those thoughts before

We pulled a boat down to the dock and stole two steady oars
I pushed you off into the dark: acrisius favours
And from above the great abyss
You threw pennies in and wished for the feeling of wanting
Nothing more

Sometimes i close my eyes
And hope that i can keep away all the darkened skies

Let The Bells Ring

That's the way that it is
I live under a bell-shaped curve for being average
I know you have been wanting to mention
I dream of death because I'm dying for attention
And then my hopes soar in my hand, and climb up a mountain
And call the names of the people I know who will rock me in the end
Lie rest assured you'll have your own reverberate the walls
Lie rest assured you'll have your own reverberate the halls

That's the way that it goes.
I climbed so bloody high I couldn't stop my bleeding nose
I dream of death and it feels good so I cheat more
And when I spend, touching you's less of a chore
And then I take a soar, in my hand, and climb up a mountain
And call the names of the people I know who will rock me in the end
But lie rest assured you'll have your own reverberate the walls
But lie rest assured you'll have your own reverberate the halls

Let the bells ring
Let the bells ring

Let the bells ring
Let the bells ring

Let the bells ring
Let the bells ring

Even In The Night

Take all the time that you need, but I think you'd better find me
I am down in a well or a ravine, I think you'd better find me
I can't listen to neighbors speak, no, I can't take no more
I can't listen to the leaves speak, no, I can't take it no more

I thought it again and I had the dream again last night
Of drowned children in the river, oh good God, you've got to find me
Tons of children have drowned in my heart, oh I think you'd better find me
I don't want all my clothes going back into charitable hands

When your fists hit the table you said it's going to be alright
When your head hit the table that's when I called it a night
Come, come to me and say it's going to be alright
Come, come here to me and say it's going to be alright

It's going to be alright
It's going to be alright
It's going to be alright
It's going to be alright
Even in the night
Even in the night

Oh What A Feeling

You let in the ghost of her
Now I see it everywhere
Take your body back
But oh oh please leave me the fear

Loneliness is in the air
Even the birds are in pairs
I can hear it in their peeping
Oh what a feeling

And I get the strangest feeling
When I float up to the ceiling
All the blubbering and moans come
From my body down below

They'll come in twos
Follow when I lean my tomb
I can hear it in their peeping
Oh what a feeling

They'll take whatever they want
And they'll have whatever they want
And they'll take whatever they want
Swing a broom, bat them out
And they'll have whatever they want
Trash can lids aren't shields enough
And they'll come whenever they want
At quiet times, times for us
And they'll come whenever they want

Fire In The Ocean

I hold hands with the fire in the ocean
Whose bones are cold, never frozen
The day is ending, I'm feeling edgy
The dark is running, soon I will be coming

Oh the ocean smells like my mother
Who should love me oh like the ocean does
We are so much like each other
We don't see the need for each other

I hold on to the fire in the ocean
Whose bones are cold, not frozen
Don't get me wrong, I'd gladly be the one
To pick my teeth with the very last whale bone

Take my garbage, throw it in the ocean
Suck a man off, throw in the ocean
No the moon is no fire in the sea
No object like that could speak to me

Who will love me oh like the ocean does
Who will love me oh like the ocean does
We are so much like each other
We don't see the need for each other

Take my garbage, throw it in the ocean
Suck a man off, throw in the ocean
We are so much like each other
We don't see the need for each other

Can You Tell Me One Thing

I skateboard to your house and fall
Skateboard's not a verb at all
I go there every night
You say you don't mind at all

You say you're my best friend
Some say you want me dead
What's all the fuss about
You should shout it all

Can you tell me one thing
Are you alright
I don't recognize your verbs tonight
Can you tell me one thing
Are you alright tonight

( Live )

I have to sneak in and put on your clothes
You will know where I’ve been
But I need the protection
Oh what a strange and miraculous thing
Finally recognise what is driving me crazy

All that I want was here now it’s gone
All that I want was here now it’s gone
Don’t be angry
I don’t disagree
It is clear that I left
My clothes on the highway

And I’d like to know
If you ever told
You said if I could have once
Given your life some meaning

All that I want was here now it's gone
All that I want was here now it's gone
All that I want was here now it's gone

Don’t be angry
I will die lonely
Don’t be angry
I will die lonely
Don’t be angry
I will die lonely
Don’t argue
'Cause you will see
That I will die so very lonely
Don’t be angry
Don’t be angry

It's time to go

If you're tired of the scene
And rock doesn't mean a thing
And all the girls look bad when they sing
La da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

It's time to go
It's time to go

And your friends know all the words
To the songs that you've already heard
And as they get on the floor they sing:
La da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

It's time to go
It's time to go

We've got to meet

Oh goodness me
We've got to meet
I need someone to have fun