The eighth song from Ball Park Music’s fourth album, Every Night the Same Dream, goes through three phases. It starts out as a gentle, soft ballad, transitions into a driving psychedelic-tinged rock song and, after rewinding sound effects, it becomes a drum-led track centred around a five-note guit...
[Verse 1]
Snow-covered peaks
My daydreams fill the streets
Will I ever feel your touch?
Noise in the evening
Drunk and now defeated
God, I miss your warm, warm skin
The hands of my other
The blue eyes of my mother
All my future children's voices
She split in the centre
Thirteen hours later
Born from all this pain came happiness forever
[Verse 2]
I gave my bones back to
My tally bones back to the devil
The devil is the one who gave them to me in the first place
She doesn't love you, Ned
She never loved you, you're the devil
The devil is the one who put me here in the first place
[Pre-Chorus]
I could sign up forever or just a few months
I really should be happy but I don't know what I want
When I'm out of sight (I'm out of my mind)
When I'm out of my mind (It's so peaceful)
Please, please, please, don't look at me like that
[Chorus]
Don't look at me like that
Don't look at me like that
Don't look at me like that
Don't look at me like that
[Instrumental Outro]
Don’t Look At Me Like That was written by Samuel Cromack & Paul Furness.
Don’t Look At Me Like That was produced by Matt Redlich.
Ball Park Music released Don’t Look At Me Like That on Fri Aug 19 2016.
Certainly an odd song. It’s like a mini-epic; three totally disconnected parts resulting in a few minutes of sporadic, yet necessary confusion on the record. One of our goals when making this record was to always see the album as a body of work. It needed to feel cohesive and flow with some sense an...