Other The Inconsistent Jukebox
If Life Is A Lesson (click for lyrics)

Remixed lo-fi raucous rockpop with incendiary bass by the fretless (and legendary) Edmar Foods.
I'm on vocals, guitar and whatever else in this dirty wall-of-sound production.

IF LIFE IS A LESSON (B. Snaith 2015)
He was still 'standing to attention' when he walked out of the bedroom. She watched, with one eye open, and laughed into the pillow with a coldness that betrayed just what she was really thinking.
And he never even knew that she wasn't really sleeping.
She was possessed by a devil but her scent was heaven sent. He faltered in his footsteps when he considered what she meant when she told him that she loved him but she 'didn't really need him anymore'.
And he thought, "If life is a lesson, if life is a lesson, what have I learned? if life is a lesson, what have I learned?".

She didn't know why she had told him but now the cat was out of the bag. And she wanted so to hold him but the bruises and the bleeding held her back.
Her back was cold.
She'd had her fill of beatings.

As he strode on down the corridor she saw it now for evermore - she'd never even known him and he really was a stranger. And there and then she knew her young life was endangered. And she thought, "If life is a lesson, if life is a lesson, what have I learned? if life is a lesson, what have I learned?".
Oh God! What could she do? She reached into his record bag, fumbled for a cigarette but "shit" he hadn't any left (they'd smoked them all the night before).
Then, suddenly, her fingers found the handle of a gun...

... meanwhile he pondered the implications of her actions. How could he carry on with her blood on his hands? There and then he decided to forgive her 'indiscretions', many though they were.

When he re-entered the room he was surprised to find her standing but her back was turned against him and he caught her in reflection. Realising her intention much to late to be effective, he raised his hand one final time and she blew him into kingdom come.
And she thought,
"If life is a lesson, if life is a lesson, what have I learned?
if life is a lesson, what have I learned?".