Epidural Collection Parts I & II
(Waves of OK / Propeller)
Lyrics by Iain Woods except where stated
2010

Waves of OK EP (2011)

Together Clinging

I'm not sure you know who you are.

Comes in Waves

I pour cold water in my tea
and I drive down, southly, to the sea
and I wade in, praying I will be
somewhere better when the waves wash over me.

I have always found it hard to teach
Underwater found it hard to see
but it's well reported and agreed
that the male sea-horse carries his children.

I have had this baby in my womb
false contractions for a long time now
And I fear; unless it happens soon
that my children they will have no mother.

So I swim down, southly, with the tide
and I gulp on salt-infected pride
and I beg with God to be the groom
and I beg with him to be the bride
for the end of silly love, aside
and to have that genius
at my side to…

Take me out of my depth
make me tread water
get out of breath
and ward off my death
by keeping abreast
of all of those waves

and all of that water.

Untitled (A Possession)

One go of this and then you'll know.


Look After

So tired of playing the invisible man
My sunglasses
My bandages and mac
Not enough!
I want eyes
Hair and a smile you can see
Oh, but like air

I encircle thee!

I encircle thee!


Song to the Siren

On the floating, shipless ocean
I tried all my best to smile
‘til your singing eyes and fingers
drew me, loving, into your isles
and you sang:

‘Sail to me! Sail to me! Let me enfold you!
Here I am, Here I am; waiting to hold you’

Did I dream you dreamt about me?
Were you here when I was full-sail?
Now my foolish boat is waning,
broken love lost on your rocks
for you sang:

‘Touch me not! Touch me not! Come back tomorrow...’
Oh my heart. Oh my heart shies from the sorrow.

Oh, I am as puzzled as a newborn child
I’m as riddled as the tide.
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or should I lay with death, my bride?
Here me sing:

‘Swim to me! Swim to me! Let me enfold you!’

Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you.

Credits

Recorded on 28th July 2010 in St. Matthias Church, Stoke Newington, London.
Mixed the week after at Lewis’s house, Gotham City.
Recorded & Engineered by Lewis Bellwood
Except for track 5: recorded, produced and mixed by Woodsy in his bedroom.

Iain: All vocals, piano, organ, synths, programming.
Lewis Bellwood: Programming, Guitar on track 4.
Beat on track 2 constructed from noises made in the church
on the day of recording by Iain & Lewis.
Scratch on Track 1 by Fabrice Bourgelles-Pyres.
Answer-phone stars (In order of appearance): Dan Foat, Hannah Rowe, Tali Clarke,
Emma Goldie, Maddie Rix, Ammina Hamed, with particular thanks to Ammina.
Thanks to the kids from number 73 for playing outside on track 1.

With thanks to Father David in the Parish of Saint Matthias for letting us borrow
the church and to Holly Barton for putting up with me. Again.
Thanks to Tali Clarke, Ella Medley-Whitfeld and Nick, Jody, Kit and baby Neddy Juba

For Will, on his Birthday.

Track One

Written by Iain Woods and Ammina Hamed

Programming, synths and all vocals by Iain
Vocals recorded at St. Matthias Parish Church
by Lewis Bellwood.
Produced by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood
Mixed by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood

Track Two

Written by Iain Woods
Piano, organ, bass synth and all vocals by Iain
Beat constructed from noises made in the church
on the day of recording by Iain & Lewis.
Engineered by Lewis Bellwood.
Produced by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood
Mixed by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood.

Track Three

Written and performed by Iain Woods
Engineered by Lewis Bellwood.
Produced by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood
Mixed by Lewis Bellwood.

Track Four

Written by Iain Woods and Joel Zimmerman
Piano, vocal and synth and Morse code by Iain. 
Guitar by Lewis.
Vocal recorded at The Premises by Iain Woods.
Piano and guitar engineered by Lewis Bellwood.
Produced by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood
Mixed by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood.
'Look After' piano hook inspired by 'Community Nap' by Deadmau5.

Track Five

Written by Tim Buckley
Performed, engineered and produced by Iain Woods.

Propeller EP (2011)

Out, Damned Spot!

Oh, Doctor
I’ve taken a pill.
Haven’t felt the same for six months now
I don’t know how I got here
But I’m ill.

Oh, Doctor
Time stood me, so still
Come look a my hands
Come look at my feet
Where axes meeting defeat
It’s defeating me.

Come look at my feet!
Come look at my hands!
Come dippy little fingers
Into the excuse for man I am…

I can’t wash it off.

I can’t wash it off and I cant sleep it off.

Propeller

Hit a dog on me
You will be disposed of soon,
No lie

And I’m not joking this time.

When I find out which bitch in here
Is responsible for me losing my sight.

I had one request
I had a hedgerow right in mind
With a Georgian house
Where I would live behind
To embark upon the kind of life I find, now,
So far from me.

I hear the lifespan of a horse is
33 to 40 years
so if this hole is anything to do
with Redrum’s illness
I will be forced to…

To give up and nail it in.
Nil! nil! nil!
He who cometh on the wind
Is just a blip along the foodchain
Just a chord among a refrain
Seeing faces in the woodgrain.
Seeing faces in the walls again
Seeing faces in the walls.

You know the kind
It was one of those days in my life
Where into all, I swore I did breathe light
You know I would have given my left arm
I would a have given my right
I would have given my life

Come to me open wide
Come to me, speak to my hopeful side
Come to my tree bearing opal fruits
Come to me, water my roots
I know you’re petrified
I know you’re mourning, the feeling died
But when your’re drunk, when you’re high on pride
Something is always liable…
To slide


Propeller
Propeller
Propeller


1:1

So help me, I can feel my arms growing large
Star of the star of an Inland Empire
Cheese-cutter, balancing the high of the wire
Air-raid mixing up the bed where we lie
Something unfathomably bigger than you or me
bigger than anything we can physically see
It's that bit that turns
the walls the floors the corridors
impossible object, a mobius
I’m back and
I'm scared, I'm afraid
but if one thing can save me
go ahead and say it...

It's intense
but the human body still makes sense

So if you just inhale,
you'll give me a sense of scale.

I've never been a religious man
but I'll cower in the presence of a God
if you can
(In Excelsis Deo, Gloria, In Excelsis Deo)
save me.
Meaning slipping and I know my demise
But my hand in your hand I can tell
I'm not too big
I'm not too small
I'm just the right…
I'm the perfect size.
So inhale me.

I need someone
need someone to save me from...
I'm word-free, it’s written in the halls of the lair in me -
Written in the locks of my hair
like holy rain on me,
holy rain on me.

Inhale it.
Inhale
You'll give me a sense of scale.


Disco at Twin Peaks

Only deceive…
Been round my ankles for days
Little swine in my way
A little swine for the taking
It’s Sow!

Sow, don’t we upset the wedding;
The corner of love
Words in the corner of love

And now I see that thing you…
I had a wicked thing to do…

Be absurd now
Rain seeing right through
I believed in love.

If you’re in front of me
I guess that will be where I’m supposed to be.

If you’re behind me
I’ll have to keep running indefinitely
Unflailingly.

But if you’re inside of me.
I’ll have to surrender entirely.

Entirely towards it.

Entirely.

Séance

When I rose I was enlightened
And full of energy and time
I stretched my arms over my head and
I wriggled my back
I wriggled my back.

‘I have been travelling!’
I told my father
‘I’ve seen the universal bloom’
‘I have seen stars. Seen Supernovas’
And slowly stepped across the room.

And in the dream and in the dream
I saw the moon attack the sun
I saw a million people running from the pain and I began
To run along with them but couldn’t really understand,
‘What we running from? What we running from?’

And I was, Brazen! Brazen!
‘I have a feeling if we all stay calm,
keep our wits about us, maybe it was just a false alarm?
Maybe none of us are gonna come to any harm’
I said ‘of course of course, if you fight it then it’s gonna be a fight
And I know they’ve told us not to, but what if the timings right?’
Look directly at it…
Look into the light.

And when I rose I was enlightened.

But only if you’re ready for it

If he shed his light in me
I might raise another dime
I could not prevent another crime.

Credits

Written, arranged, performed and produced by Iain Woods
Track 5 produced by Iain & Steven Woods

Recorded at Spatial Palatial, London with Additional Vocals at EMI Evelyn Yard, London.
Thanks to Ben, Jack, Jamie, Scott & Austin at EMI

Pre-Mix by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood at Gotham City
Final Mix by Nathan Boddy

Woodsy: All vocals, piano, organ, synths, programming.
Nicole Robson: Cello on tracks 1, 2 & 5
Emma Goldie: Violin on tracks 1 & 2
Steven Woods: Programming & Synths on Track 5
Contains an excerpt of a speech by Louis H. Mackey from Richard Linklater's
'Waking Life' (2001)
Available on Fox Searchlight Films.

1:1 is for Emma on her Birthday, Don’t be afraid of the dark.

Track One

Written by Iain Woods
Programming, Synths & Vocals by Iain Woods
Violin: Emma Goldie
Cello: Nicole Robson
Strings arranged by Iain Woods
Additional Vocal Recording: Ben Jackson
Studio Assistant: Jamie?
Mixed by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood

Track Two
Written by Iain Woods & Anon
Programming, Synths, Guitar and all vocals by Iain
Additional Drum programming: Lewis
Violin: Emma Goldie
Cello: Nicole Robson
Strings arranged by Iain Woods with additional freestyles by Nicole Robson
Vocal Recorded by Ben Jackson at EMI
Produced by Iain Woods
Mixed by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood

Track Three

Written by Iain Woods
Programming, synths, piano and all vocals by Iain
Bass replacements & Additional production by Lewis
Vocal recorded by Ben Jackson at EMI
Produced by Iain Woods
Mixed by Iain Woods & Lewis Bellwood

Track Four

Written, by Iain Woods
Programming, Synths and all vocals by Iain
Additional bass programming an mixing by Lewis Bellwood
Produced & Mixed by Iain Woods

Track Five

Written by Iain & Steven Woods, Richard Linklater & Nicole Robson
Programming & Synths by Steven
Bass programming and all vocals by Iain
Cello free-styled by Nicole Robson
Opening speech by Louis H. Mackey
Additional Vocals recorded by Ben Jackson at EMI
Cello recorded by by Lewis Bellwood
Produced by Iain & Steven Woods
Mixed by Iain Woods
Contains an excerpt of Richard Linklater's 'Waking Life' (2001)
Available on Fox Searchlight Films.