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We just finished a recording of Blackout Beach, a surf song about torture. Arjun, the esteemed Kamina, performed double duty on drums and guitars. He also produced the song at the Rays’ household, which was amazing. The studio has all the gear, without any of the headaches of hourly charges and rented equipment.

The song was written to promote the Stephanie Skier play, Water Boarding. Details and lyrics are here:

Listen to the song Blackout Beach on our myspace

From the play’s bio
This world premiere of the original play Water Board: a play about torture aims to create awareness and discussion about waterboarding as a form of torture. Through live action performance, integrated video, original music and dialogue with the audience, this breathtaking show explores the contemporary politics and history of simulated drowning. The play engages audience members in a conversation that struggles with what it means to live under a government that practices and condones torture.

Lyrics

Kicking and screaming,
you strapped me down, held my feet over my head,
covered my face, do you love me?

Do I look the same as all the others?
why me and not another?
Do I look good with my face covered?
To you?

The Water’s crashing – Now please forget me
you’ve soaked my skull out

Pull me up Pull me up Pull me up

Maybe I’ll survive to be forgotten,
maybe they’ll my stuff my nose up with cotton,
will they feed me again… through the tube?
the tube?

The walls are all kind of changing colors,
I’ve gathered buckets of bugs and weeds from the flowers,
Is that you mother? No – not you. Not you…

The Water’s crashing – Now please forget me
you’ve soaked my skull out
who am I? who am I?

Pull me up Pull me up Pull me up

I must be jesus look what I’m coughing up,
I’m turning blood to water – yeah. That’s what he does,
does it mean a thing, to you? to you?