FACELESS IN VEGAS
(Music by Juhani Nahkala / Lyrics by Steve McAndrew and Curtis Downey)

Curtis Downey - lyrics, Lead and Backing Vocals
Steve McAndrew - Lyrics, Lead and Backing Vocals
Brina Doughty - Backing Vocals
Juhani Nahkala - Music, Instruments, Mix and Production.

Intro
faceless, i'm so faceless

Verse 1
life is spinning, timeless fending
i stare without a face
money dying, babies home crying
lost without a trace
from behind these eyes I am alive
the city's such a glow
the lights they are familiar
but my mind still doesn't know

Chorus 1
FACELESS IN VEGAS
i walk these streets alone
FACELESS IN VEGAS
a soul without a home
FACELESS IN VEGAS
the mirror sees no-one to trust
i'm lost and found........
FACELESS IN VEGAS

Verse 2
then sirens wail, and without fail
another dollar bites the dust
wheels are turning, the flames keep burning
the memories start to rust
what ever happened to the life i knew
before cesar dealt this hand
will anyone remember, or will anyone understand

Chorus 2
FACELESS IN VEGAS
i walk these streets alone
FACELESS IN VEGAS
a soul without a home
FACELESS IN VEGAS
the mirror sees no-one to trust
i'm lost and found........

Bridge
FACELESS IN VEGAS
in the distance you hear a name
and dream about the game
FACELESS IN VEGAS
does it all feel like the same
there's nothing makes a sound
FACELESS IN VEGAS
do you ever close your eyes
or gaze on golden skies
FACELESS IN VEGAS
as it softly begins to rain

Chorus 3
i walk those streets alone
FACELESS IN VEGAS
a heart without a home
the mirror sees no-one to trust
FACELESS IN VEGAS
i'm lost and found........
i walk these streets alone
FACELESS IN VEGAS
a face without a home
the mirror sees no-one to trust
FACELESS IN VEGAS
i'm lost and found........
FACELESS IN VEGAS
FACELESS IN VEGAS
ohhh
FACELESS IN VEGAS
FACELESS IN VEGAS
i'm lost and found

Comment:- This song was the result of a chat-room discussion in the wee small hours of the morning that went like this -
[Pleasuredome] 8:24 am: Yup...go for it Curtis!
[Gerk] 8:24 am: man I've seen half an album fly by tonight in song titles
[CurtisDowney66] 8:24 am: lol, there can be a song in anything if you look hard enough
[Pleasuredome] 8:24 am: Where the lights never go down!
[Pleasuredome] 8:25 am: Pulsating fountains
[Pleasuredome] 8:25 am: Chopper for Laughlin
[Gerk] 8:26 am: keep it coming steve
[Pleasuredome] 8:26 am: Desert Speed
[Pleasuredome] 8:26 am: Where's my Sandwich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Gerk] 8:26 am: LMAO
[Brina] 8:26 am: samich!
[Pleasuredome] 8:27 am: You go for FACELESS IN VEGAS Curtis, great idea bro
[CurtisDowney66] 8:27 am: people spending, old ladies starving, and I stare without a face
[CurtisDowney66] 8:28 am: money flying, babies crying, lost without a trace
[Pleasuredome] 8:29 am: From behind these eyes, alive, aglow she gallops on apace
[CurtisDowney66] 8:30 am: all the pretty lights, are nothing but a fuss, when you are living on the edge,
FACELESS IN VEGAS
[Pleasuredome] 8:31 am: Decision time arrives again, do I lead or do I chase
[Brina] 8:31 am: dayam...I always wonder if you guys are writing this stuff down
[Pleasuredome] 8:31 am: All the pretty lights, fleeting delights, when you're on the edge, Faceless in
Vegas?
[Pleasuredome] 8:31 am: You take notes Brina....and pitch in!
[CurtisDowney66] 8:31 am: i just did a copy paste, cuz I won't remember it in the morning
[Pleasuredome] 8:32 am: Desert horizon flanks my view, another dollar bites the dust
[CurtisDowney66] 8:33 am: do you know where money lives, does it live in it's own space, or does it find a
way to spend, alone without a face
[Pleasuredome] 8:34 am: In the parking lot golden chariots stand, and none will fail from rust
[Gerk] 8:34 am: yo go guys
[Pleasuredome] 8:34 am: Ceasar stands nearby with his winking eye, beckoning all go in
[CurtisDowney66] 8:34 am: a stranger holds your hand, with whom you do not trust
[Pleasuredome] 8:36 am: Then the sirens wail and without fail, the streets they readjust
[CurtisDowney66] 8:36 am: I am just copying and pasting everything, and I will try to piece it all together
later
[Pleasuredome] 8:36 am: FACELESS IN VEGAS
[Pleasuredome] 8:36 am: Wher money no longer talks
[Pleasuredome] 8:37 am: And the necks are dorned with rocks
[Brina] 8:37 am: dorned?
[CurtisDowney66] 8:37 am: in the distance you hear a name, does it all seem like the same, do you ever
close your eyes, and dream about the game
[Pleasuredome] 8:38 am: Wheels are turning in your head, think your fortunes are being made
[Pleasuredome] 8:38 am: And on the fringes someone keeps a watchfull eye
[CurtisDowney66] 8:38 am: but still you don't hear a sound, as it softly begins to rain
[Pleasuredome] 8:38 am: As in the heavens choppers fly
[Pleasuredome] 8:38 am: FACELESS IN VEGAS
[Pleasuredome] 8:39 am: Then the mornign comes around, nothing changes in the sound
[Pleasuredome] 8:39 am: Still the dynamo she hums into the day
[CurtisDowney66] 8:40 am: are you frigetened by the sight, when noone is around
[Pleasuredome] 8:40 am: Not a sight you'll ever see in Vegas
[CurtisDowney66] 8:41 am: still the mirror knows who not to trust...FACELESS IN VEGAS
[Pleasuredome] 8:41 am: What about this (gambling addiction) I look in the mirror and don't know whether
I should trust! FACELESS IN VEGAS!
[Pleasuredome] 8:42 am: Yeah, dorned is like adorned Brina.
[CurtisDowney66] 8:42 am: we still need an ending
[CurtisDowney66] 8:43 am: i got enough copied and pasted now to write 2 versions I think...lol
[Pleasuredome] 8:43 am: A lotta fine-tuning too! Do we resolve that we'd rather have things the way they
are, forget the wealth?
[CurtisDowney66] 8:45 am: once I jump into my plane, and remember why I came, was there ever any
lust, while FACELESS IN VEGAS
[CurtisDowney66] 8:45 am: I am definately gonna try to patch this all together, just for kicks if anything
[Pleasuredome] 8:46 am: That was cool Curtis, well done bro, I would suggest replacing "Was there ever
any lust" with "it was fun to play the game".......I'm out!
[CurtisDowney66] 8:46 am: I write alot of songs this way, just jotting down usless mumble, then I
concentrate on a melody, then make it all fit
[Pleasuredome] 8:47 am: It's gonna be killer bro
[CurtisDowney66] 8:47 am: oh yeh, alot of changes will have to be made to make it fit, or to make it make
sense...lol
[Pleasuredome] 8:48 am: Real-time collabing (or as near as we can get!)...cool!
[CurtisDowney66] 8:48 am: lol, for sure
[Gerk] 8:48 am: gotta lvoe wathcing realtime collaboration
[Gerk] 8:48 am: you guys should do that more often
[Brina] 8:48 am: I agree with mark
[CurtisDowney66] 8:48 am: yeh, it was alot of fun
[Pleasuredome] 8:49 am: Thanks Mark, pitch in at any time!
[Gerk] 8:49 am: ya was multitasking hehe
[CurtisDowney66] 8:49 am: yeh, don't forget, you get to write the music Mark
[Brina] 8:49 am: not me...no multitasking this time...I was bitching
[Gerk] 8:49 am: I'm trying to find a song ... I have a melody in my head, I can hear the part I'm looking for
[Brina] 8:49 am: LOL
[Gerk] 8:49 am: and I can't remember who does it
[Gerk] 8:49 am: ahhhhhh muuuuuuussssiiiiccc
[Gerk] 8:50 am: I'll play the drums and bass
[CurtisDowney66] 8:50 am: ok, you're in
[Brina] 8:50 am: steve, I redid that clip you listened to yesterday/lastnight
[Gerk] 8:50 am: steve is a pretty good guitar player too btw
[Brina] 8:50 am:
[Gerk] 8:50 am: you should do more guitar stuff steve, I'v eheard what you can do
[Gerk] 8:51 am: LMAO
[Gerk] 8:51 am: that emoticon will never be the same
[CurtisDowney66] 8:51 am: I know, I have him playing on one of my tunes, if I could only get Richardo to
finish the BG vocs, it would be done
[Brina] 8:51 am: BG vocs?
[Brina] 8:51 am: hehehe
[Brina] 8:52 am: no that emoticon will never be the same
[Brina] 8:52 am: LOL
[Brina] 8:52 am: that's what you get for getting me into voice chat [Brina] 8:52 am: LOL
[Gerk] 8:53 am: hehe
[Gerk] 8:53 am: no that's what YOU get

 

 

You can see the collaboration thread here and the finished song thread here.


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