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"On Paper" is a play on words ... "on paper," I should have become a completely unsuccessful and unproductive person, based on many, many various factors. But I feel I have defied those odds; even if my music and visual art and professional career were to count for absolutely nothing, I would say I am a complete and total success as a human being based solely on my beautiful 24-year-long relationship with my wife, and our two incredible children. The double-meaning of the song title is based on the fact that LSD is a drug usually found "on paper." So while the lyrics are literally about tripping acid, they are much more figuratively about how I felt like I was floating aimlessly in a total tripped-out haze in my life until I met my wife, after which time everything became clear and bright. Musically, I got to play with my favorite genre in this one, psychedelia! I pulled out all the psychedelic tricks in the ol' bag - backmasked guitars, heavy tremolo, loads of delay, flangers and phasers galore, all to create a big psych-pop mountain of sound.

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Two standard-size brown eyes
One nose in center of face
I'll tell myself these lies
And put my mixed-up parts back into place

Racing tracers
Through varying degrees of sanity
Losing reality
And you are clear

The walls are breathing now
Every sound is echoed
If I live through this somehow
The seeds of light will be sowed

Chasing moonbeams
Facing down everything I've seen
Oh, what does it all mean
Right now?

Sounds of grace are
Enveloping me in ecstasy
And in agony
But now you're here
In lovely glowing blue
In elemental hues
And all I want is you

I wanted to tell you everything, everything
This sullen tune,
Alone in my room
Save me, save me
This lonely moon
Asleep in my tomb
Save me, save me
Save me, take me
Back to the place where I belong

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from There is No Light Without the Dark, released January 23, 2021

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The Beatles, Breeders, Zombies, Kinks, Cars, and Debussy make up just some of the layers of the Warhol-esque sonic power-pop art painting that is The Stan Laurels, the musical creation of earthling Sound Scientist John Lathrop of Austin, TX, USA.

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