SIGNS (2/11/2022)
ABOUT THE SONG
I wrote this song for Misfit Cabaret’s “A SPACE ODDITY” (or if you saw its first run, “Lost in Z Space”). Taken out of context, you might think this is a religious song. It is not that. It is a desperate cry for help for humanity, beseeching aliens from outer space to come down to earth and fix our shit– assuming there is life form in the galaxy more intelligent and enlightened than us. One can only hope.
I wrote this song three years ago and it’s kinda comical that this song has become even more relevant. I wrote it before the pandemic, a word that I have grown tired of writing and saying– that, and “unprecedented”. Everything is ‘presedented at this point.
The song is a departure from my more whimsical cabaret songs, partly because my style has changed and I’ve written and released several songs (hell, even an entire holiday album) since I wrote “Signs”, and partly because the desperation and exasperation of the message needed a harder edge. Screaming into a microphone can be extremely cathartic.
Beam me the fuck up, Scotty.
xo,
Kat
CREDITS
Written and performed by Kat Robichaud. Produced, recorded, and mixed by Mark McKee. Keys: Brendan Getzell. Drums: RJ Pal. Guitars, bass and synths: Mark McKee. Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Studios.
SPECIAL THANK YOU
Emilio Racinez, Rick Kinnaird, NJ + Morrisa, Douglas A. Gwyn, Harrison Scroggins, Laura Reznikov, Ian Bennett, Charles Cross, Alex Eros, Gabriel Milian, David Carlstrom, Jerome Moisand, and to all of Kat’s Patreon members for making this recording possible. xo
LYRICS
Down here we wait for you
Searching for a sign from high up
Drifting, don’t know what to do
Waiting patiently for guidance
It’s all got so much darker
So much louder
Lately it’s all been too much
We need someone stronger
Someone smarter
Someone to teach us
Save us from ourselves we’re calling
Shouting into the emptiness
Created by a misplaced love
We’ve given to the things
That we created to fill the emptiness
Save us from this
Give us the answer
Give us a sign
Tell us the truth so we’ll fall in line
Give us the answer
Feed our heads
Drag us for filth or we’ll all end up dead
Feed our heads
Feed our heads
Help us start again
Down here we wait for you
Waiting to wake up something new
Searching for the smallest clue
Desperate for a sign from you
Save us from ourselves, we’re calling
Shouting into the emptiness
We’re breeding while we bow our heads
Averting all our gazes from
The answers right in front of us
See us, Save us
Give us the answer
Give us a sign
Tell us the truth so we’ll fall in line
Give us the answer
Feed our heads
Drag us for filth or we’ll all end up dead
Feed our heads
Feed our heads
Help us start again
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xo,
Kat
