Behind the Songs: ECLIPSE: Velvet Glove

This new batch of songs that make up Eclipse were written more in the spirit of collaboration as a band than were the songs that made up our debut album. We’re proud of that and proud of this batch of songs. And we hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we like to play them.

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Velvet Glove (Johnson, Driml, Carhart) 
Lead vocal: Scotty Zero
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Strange, I'm feeling kinda high
Remember all those times she tried
Swimming slowly to the shore
Boats go by me by the score, yeah

So are you the savior of the world?
Or just some mixed up little girl
You fit life just like a velvet glove
So are you real babe, and who do you love?

Twilight comes, I feel the flow
Reminding me of the things I never thought I'd know
Then we played for the money man
You know the one who sends the waves across the land

But are you the savior of the world?
Or just some mixed up little girl
You fit life just like a velvet glove
Are you real babe, and who do you love?

Was she real or just a ghost?
I think I miss her laugh the most, yeah
All that now is in the past
Now she's gone so I can't ask

Are you the savior of the world?
Or just some mixed up little girl
You fit life just like a velvet glove. Yeah!
So are you real babe, and who do you love?
What do you love?
Why do you love?
Who do you love?

Notes:
Another one that Scotty brought to the table almost totally complete. It’s got a surf vibe to it. Part way into mixing it, I was listening to an Ultravox song and got the notion of putting an echo on Scotty’s vocals every other line (I was listening to Vienna, I think). I think that added a little something extra. Biff was really all over the place on the drums, doing all kinds of stuff. I left Scotty’s comment on the end of the song just because it was really something to behold. We hadn’t rehearsed it that way. But I’m sure glad we captured it. Scotty says the lyrics to the song questions New Age beliefs.