Alpha Centauri
1998 · Fearless F034 · USA
- Artist
- At the Drive-In
- Title
- Alpha Centauri
- Release
- In/Casino/Out
- Year
- 1998
- Label
- Fearless # F034
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Rock · Post-Hardcore · Punk Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
US Post-Hardcore punk band At the Drive-In opened their 1998 album with the blazing track "Alpha Centauri" (Fearless Records # F034). Founded in 1993, in El Paso, Texas, the band's lyrics were often obscure and difficult to interpret. It did contain several lines of violent imagery, including a possible reference to Kent State: "students spray the Kent State mist".& Vietnam War: Punk Songs
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs
US Post-Hardcore punk band At the Drive-In opened their 1998 album with the blazing track "Alpha Centauri" (Fearless Records # F034). Founded in 1993, in El Paso, Texas, the band's lyrics were often obscure and difficult to interpret. It did contain several lines of violent imagery, including a possible reference to Kent State: "students spray the Kent State mist".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Widows, an antique replacement / A briefcase filled with mace / Widows, six legged lost and found / Students, spray the Kent State mace / Wishing wells, missing clientele / Widows, six legged lost and found / Parkas worn in summer apparel / Sweat lodge comatose of broken arrows / Widows, veiled in rebound sheets / This is the ghost of a chance the lonely / Widows, six legged lost and found / Precision, watch the scalpel make roads / Hear them talk in paranoid parables / Widows, six legged lost and found / Storefront chairman's fingering buttons / This running of the bulls / Will take over the life support system / Madrid space station Spain, in space, in space / Flesh versus machine / Matador is just a bull in a china shop... Widows, an antique replacement / A briefcase filled with mace / Widows, six legged lost and found / Students, spray the Kent State mace / Wishing wells, missing clientele / Widows, six legged lost and found / Parkas worn in summer apparel / Sweat lodge comatose of broken arrows / Widows, veiled in rebound sheets / This is the ghost of a chance the lonely / Widows, six legged lost and found / Precision, watch the scalpel make roads / Hear them talk in paranoid parables / Widows, six legged lost and found / Storefront chairman's fingering buttons / This running of the bulls / Will take over the life support system / Madrid space station Spain, in space, in space / Flesh versus machine / Matador is just a bull in a china shop
About the artist
American post-hardcore band formed 1994 in El Paso, Texas. [Source: Wikipedia]