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From Soup To Heroine

by Prodding Juliet

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1.
Soup 02:48
2.
I've been in love with you for years You've smelled my sweat, you've heard my tiers I have no money, only insults With which to win your jaded heart, to win you over For the first time I thought I'd seen those eyes a million times But I was never looking right For the first time I thought I'd seen those eyes a million times But I was never looking, was never looking right I've been in love with you for years You've blocked my calls, you've warned your peers I'd serenade you if I knew how But the words stick in my throat, as if I'd regret them For the first time I thought I'd seen those eyes a million times But I was never looking right For the first time I thought I'd seen those eyes a million times But I was never looking, was never looking right I'll offer you my love of sorts And all the insults I can afford I'm looking at you for the first time In glorious technicolour, in all your splendour For the first time I thought I'd seen those eyes a million times But I was never looking right For the first time I thought I'd seen those eyes a million times But I was never looking, was never looking right
3.
Day seven of week sixteen, you hear a young man crying, faithless hearts and Godless teens never tire of trying. She advertised her beaming face in front of many suitors, sinister lighting, loud soundtrack, replace the clientele's computers. I'm gonna fill a post-it note of tiny words, describing how your hair curls around your ears. I'm gonna touch your soft face with my blistered hands, and picture how your hair smells when I kiss you. It's been sixteen hours and two minutes since I last heard from her fingers. That aching sense of lust burns through, I'd forgotten how it lingers. When she closed her eyes that night and breathed a steady rhythm, I thought that I would find myself but I lost so much of me in them. I'm gonna press your head against by bleeding heart and stain your hair with all my sins and lies. I'm gonna sketch your heartbeat in an old diary to stop myself from staring at your thighs. I'm in love of sorts, I'm in love of sorts. I'm in love of sorts, I'm in love... I'm gonna fill a post-it note of tiny words, describing how your hair curls around your ears. I'm gonna touch your soft face with my blistered hands, and picture how your hair smells when I kiss you. I'm gonna press your head against by bleeding heart and stain your hair with all my sins and lies. I'm gonna sketch your heartbeat in an old diary to stop myself from staring at your thighs, at your thighs.
4.
Meat Cleaver 03:05
At first I was afraid of The look upon her face And the meat cleaver looking restless in her hand In my disheveled state I Could tell she was just waiting To second guess a lying cheating man At first I was terrified of The look in both her eyes And the meat cleaver looking restless in her palm Now I am quite naive But even I can clearly see that The chances were that I would come to harm Faster than sound Appear without a trace Got an attitude like a slap in the face Next thing I know I'm pinned back in my seat Being slapped around like a bloody slab of meat You look at me like you could cut me open You have a cleaver in your smile When I'm sarcastic it is you I think of Lying unconscious on the tile I know that I'm XY but Somehow I still sleep at night Despite the bad my genes compel me to perform I suppose it's just the fashion A desperate crime of passion We've learned our lesson, we have had our turn Faster than sound Appear without a trace Got an attitude like a slap in the face Next thing I know I'm pinned back in my seat Being slapped around like a bloody slab of meat You look at me like you could cut me open You have a cleaver in your smile When I'm sarcastic it is you I think of Lying unconscious on the tile
5.
I wonder what it's like to be the fifth Beatle, I wonder what it's like to be on the titles of Match of the Day, I wonder what it's like to be Harris trying to break your legs, and I wonder what it's like to fail every time. But I don't care about that second liver. But I don't care, you'll always be my hero. But I don't care about that second liver. Hey twinkletoes, where did that liver go? Oh where did that liver go? I saw you on the telly, you're looking frail and underweight, but I didn't see an old man, I saw twinkletoes! Dribbling and making fools of Gordon Banks and Bobby Moore, after a heavy night's drinking! But I don't care about that second liver. But I don't care, you made someone a happy donor. But I don't care about that second liver. Hey twinkletoes, where did that liver go? I saw the way you were, I saw what you became, of all the things you've done you shouldn't feel ashamed, because no amount of soberness could make the magic in your legs, so I salute your flawed genius. But I don't care about that second liver. But I don't care, you made someone a happy donor. But I don't care about that second liver. Hey twinkletoes, where did that liver go?
6.
24, nice hair, smells of cigarettes, I'm not sure if she wants to be my girl. Occasionally she'll kiss me, like she really means it, and it feels like I've never been lonely before. But I don't care about the cigarettes, I don't care about the attitude, the piercing in her tongue I can get used to. I can live with the alcohol, the draft beside the fire door, as long as she'll still kiss me on this dance floor. I'll ask her back to my place every now and then, with only moderate expectations. She don't look good in photos, or none that I've seen, but she's so pretty when we're face to face. But I don't care about the cigarettes, I don't care about the attitude, the piercing in her tongue I can get used to. I can live with the alcohol, the draft beside the fire door, as long as she'll still kiss me on this dance floor. I don't care about the cigarettes, I don't care about the attitude, the piercing in her tongue I can get used to. I can live with the alcohol, the draft beside the fire door, as long as she'll still kiss me on this dance floor. I can live, oh I can live, just as long as she's still kissing me once I'm too drunk to think. I can live, oh I can live, if she amuses me as much as she confuses me by 2 a.m. tomorrow.
7.
No one will suspect a thing at all I think No one will believe us anyway Or at least I hope She says she don't expect a thing from me She tells me she can cope fine on her own But what if I expect something from me? Then what should I do? I'm going to take her to the hospital Tomorrow We're going to see a low-fi image of Her womb Until then there's a chance that it's not true And we'll go back to doing what we used to do She says she don't expect a thing from me But she can lie She is gaining weight She is carrying nothing, carrying nothing of mine She is gaining weight She is carrying nothing, carrying nothing of mine No no no I hope he won't grow up to be like me Some how I am what I am and I know I can't Change that So maybe they'll be better off alone Without my want and decadence on show She says she don't expect a thing from me She wouldn't lie She is gaining weight She is carrying nothing, carrying nothing of mine She is gaining weight She is carrying nothing, carrying nothing of mine Maybe one day he'll come and find me and Challenge me on my selfish hiding And I'll stutter my way through a sentence Filled with words of remorse and repentance, all From a different point of view From a different perspective From a different time and place
8.
Peep Show 02:34
Lying to your Mother and your employer ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Dancing to rock music in the disco ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Sex without a condom with a stranger ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Drinking till you can't stand, until you can't see ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Inside, inside Inside, inside Love and sex consumers with credit cards ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Smoking crack on weekdays during your tea break ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Stealing from a small man to show you can ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Selling smack to minors in a school yard ...surely will drag us down to the gutter Inside, inside Inside, inside Paris Hilton, Jade Goodie Sprawled over Heat magazine Everyone's favourite heiress Naked on the internet You're too fat, too thin, too close, zoom in Soft porn, female scorn, no excuses, heard them all It's a peep show It's a peep show It's a peep show It's a peep show
9.
Heroine 02:51
It's all about perspective It's all about good times It's all about forgetting the reason and the rhyme My perspective is shifting My priorities change Things that were unthinkable now happen every day But don't shoot Juliet You don't know what she means to me If you care for me Don't shoot my Juliet I think about her daily Obsess about her form I'd steal from anybody any time I get the horn She's there for me in hard times And when I'm feeling low She's fucking unpredictable but I'm never alone But don't shoot Juliet You don't know what she means to me If you care for me Don't shoot my Juliet My sweet Juliet She did nothing to harm us If you care for me Don't shoot my Juliet So where you gonna go now? When you've lost all that matters to you What you gonna do now? When the bubble bursts and all that's left is Panic and loathing and loathing and panic and loathing Panic and loathing and loathing and panic and loathing But don't shoot Juliet You don't know what she means to me If you care for me Don't shoot my Juliet My sweet Juliet She did nothing to harm us If you care for me Don't shoot my Juliet
10.
I've been foolish and unkind I've been reckless, I've been rash For several years I haven't thought Before I act I've fallen in and out of love I've played with hearts without due care I feel dirty I feel low Looking back Would you forgive me for all my sins If I repent, if I repent? Would you forgive me for all my sins If I repent, if I repent? I drank too much, I slept around I alienate people I like I step on the toes of my friends Regularly I've been from Soup to Heroine I've weaseled my way out of things I got addicted to remorse And Love of Sorts Would you forgive me for all my sins If I repent, if I repent? Would you forgive me for all my sins If I repent, if I repent? I repent, I repent, I repent I repent

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From Soup To Heroine was self-recorded throughout the band's disassembly and was only completed once we were fully dismantled. We like to think the album charts the downfall of a male protagonist through 30 short minutes of thoughtful punky pop songs, but also it's a collection of everything we were ever able to play, polished up and put together as best we could. It's finally ready to be heard by the outside world, over five enormous years after recording began. We're proud, knackered, and wholly relieved, to humbly offer up our contribution to your earworm archive.

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released February 14, 2016

Written, arranged, performed, produced, and recorded by Prodding Juliet. Adam Ingram, Roger Johnson, and Tom Mitchell were/are Prodding Juliet. Adam: songs, lyrics, vocals, backing vocals, and guitars; Roger: bass, management, and live sound; Tom: drums, backing vocals, extra guitars, and recording equipment. Neil Combstock mixed and mastered this record at Rocking Horse Rehearsal Rooms in Durham with constant nagging/assistance from Tom. The artwork was put together by Mr. Tom Jones (mrtomjones.com) with one of our Tom's photos.

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Prodding Juliet England, UK

Prodding Juliet were a three-piece indie band from Durham, UK, that made a fair bit of noise between 2008 and 2010. In the years since then we managed to finish creating our debut/swansong album at a snail's pace and can finally rest in peace.

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