ABNORMAL
Have you got a compass
Do you know where you are
Starless and Bible Black
But you hear guitars
Light years away but they’re there
And I can tell you where
Where, where, where

Have you got a problem
With finding the sun
Heart stopped and blinded
Hearing melodies run
Light years away but they’re there
And I can show you where
Where, where, where

Abnormal, unforgivingly
Already warmed up
We’ve come to set you free
But there is a payment for reality
Unless you wanna wait
For Hell to freeze

Will you want a pilot
Will you want a fast plane
Ground-bound and lonely
Chained to a refrain
Light years away but it’s there
And I can show you where
Where, where, where

Will you sign agreement
Will you pay for your soul
Godless and friendless
Down on Echo Road
Light years away but I’m there
And I can tell you where
Where, where, where

Abnormal, unforgivingly
Already warmed up
We’ve come to set you free
But there is a payment for reality
Unless you wanna wait
For Hell to freeze

Words by Peter Greatorex. Copyright ℗ 1989 Pig Pen Music.

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot/R. Holloway/M. Greatorex/G. Barbe/P. Jones.

Copyright © 2015 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1989 Pig Pen Music.

Sequenced at Silent Running Studios by George Davies and Jeff Willmot 1992.
Re-recorded, engineered, mixed and produced at Wud Records Studio One by George Davies 2015.

Performers:

PJ Speed – vocals
Zak Black – guitars
Maxx Damage – bass

Fun Facts:

• Abnormal was originally written and performed by Alien Heat.
• It was the very first song that the whole Alien Heat band created together.
• Abnormal was composed by five blokes squeezed into a small bedroom in Topsham Road, Exeter on a particularly rainy November afternoon in 1989.
• George studied Graham’s original drum parts and programmed them into the sequencer.
• Jeff then added the extra percussion.
• The bassline in this recording is an amalgamation of Marc’s original bassline and Jeff’s subsequent bassline, both of which we loved.
• Richard programmed the original keyboard sounds himself and these are approximated on the studio synths, which we tend to feel did a reasonable job.
• The guitar solo at the end before the swoops, howls and feedback had contributions from Jeff and from Phil the Fiddle.
• Phil’s contributions were from when this song was performed in Prague by Doctor Watson.
• This song is in the key of F#m, the other chord being Em.
• The tempo is 124 BPM.
• The original version of the song suddenly and inexplicably broke into some different chords at the end.
• The updated ending retains the bi-chordal simplicity of the rest of the song.