“Catching Gears” will be included on the album In The Fifth Circle, which will be released in late 2024 or in January of 2025 (assuming it's ever finished).
If I had a dollar and fifteen cents,
You'd be riflin' around in my pockets
To pay your rent.
I don't mind chippin' in,
It's like always bettin' on a pony
That never wins.
I've known love from coast to coast.
You're the girl that I have chosen.
If things don't change I'm outta here,
Wind in my hair... catchin' gears.
If I was a preacher, you'd fleece my flock.
You'd be sippin' that sacramental wine
By ten o'clock.
Now, I don't mind a little sin,
But I'm too old for dancing with the devil
The shape I'm in.
I've known love from coast to coast.
You're the girl that I have chosen.
If things don't change I'm outta here,
Wind in my hair... catchin' gears.
(BREAK)
If I was drownin' in a puddle of mud,
You'd step on my back to keep your feet dry,
Yes you would.
Now, I don't mind chippin' in,
But with all of my cards on the table,
I never win.
I've known love from coast to coast.
You're the girl that I have chosen.
If things don't change I'm outta here,
Wind in my hair... catchin' gears.
Music & Lyrics: Wicasta Lovelace.
Copyright © 2024: Wicasta Lovelace.
Copyright © 2024: Windhaven Network.
performers
Victoria Lovelace - backing vocals
Wicasta Lovelace - lead & backing vocals, guitars, bass, sample instruments, drums, programming
production
Wicasta Lovelace - mixing, mastering
The short story which matches to “Catching Gears” is titled “Dulce”. This story is somewhat experimental. Enough so that when I let a professor friend of mine in Texas read an early draft, he pretty much stopped talking to me. lol. Well, art is supposed to elicit a reaction, and that one damned sure did.
AN EXCERPT
“Dulce,” she said. And again, “It’s Dee-ul-say.” Parsed out the phonetics. Syllables. Rhythm. What was it he would say? “Mouth feel.” She felt the name in her mouth. It didn’t taste right. Didn’t feel right. It would do for now, as a name, as a reference. But it didn’t feel like her. Something they could call her until she faded back into the void.
Dulce blinked. Hard. She closed her eyes so tightly it hurt and she saw stars or sparkles in the darkness. She had to reform. Reincorporate. Breathe. Reintegrate. Be. Just for a little while.
She had winked into a muddled existence that morning, spent most of her day making sense of this new existence. Or tried to. What came before was there, in bits and pieces. Fragments. Whispers. Moving shadows. Waking dreams. There was a word for it. A phrase. Like a name on the tip of her tongue.
Something… other.
Something… not Dulce.
Someone… not Dulce.
But who was she now?
Coming in 2024
Coming in 2024
Coming in 2024
Both the album and the short story collection share the title, “In The Fifth Circle”. The common theme between the two is that everything in both collections happened in a fictional nightclub called The Fifth Circle. And both of them are connected to a novel title “Blood & Chartreuse”.
It's complicated, y'all.
Were the songs inspired by the stories? Where the stories inspired by the songs? The answer to both of those questions is “Yes”. To varying degrees there was push and pull in both directions. I hope that in the end they will all collectively add up to an immersive experience that takes us all a little off the beaten path.
The weird stuff is in the weeds. So they tell me. I'll just keep re-visiting these works until they're all finished and there's an album and a book that I can toss onto a fire if need be on those cold, dark nights of the sould. There are too many interesting critters and ideas running around in my head to not see this through.
~ Wicasta Lovelace
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