Gerard Way feat. Lydia Night: Dasher – a My Chemical Romance-énekes és a Regrettes-énekesnő karácsonyi dala

„A Dasher egy lányról szól, aki beleszeret egy rénszarvasba. A rénszarvas is elég dögösnek tartja a csajt. Különféle kalandokat élnek át, és nagyokat beszélgetnek az életről. Ez a dal a hétköznapi dolgok közt néha megbúvó varázslatról is szól” – summázza a 41 éves énekes a Mikulás legfürgébb szánhúzó rénszarvasáról, Dasherről, azaz Táltosról elnevezett dalt, melyet élőben már négy évvel ezelőtti turnéján is játszott, de csak most készített belőle stúdióverziót Lydiával, aki a vokálozáson kívül egy spoken word részt is kapott a szövegben (és ettől a Smashing Pumpkins mellett a Black Box Recorder is eszünkbe juthat a végeredményről).

a dal egy 2014-es Gerard Way-koncerten:

Under atmospheric haze
Just some stratospheric strays, we wait
And can we hold on our hearts
‘Til the day brings the light
Nice to meet you, Marigold
I don’t think you’re looking old but
“I don’t think you can stay,”
Said the sea to the night

When you go, when you go
Away
When you go, can you come
This way?
‘Cause I feel safe in your arms
And she’s got dashes in her stars
I hope you both, come around
This way

She’s a waitress, he’s uptown
City rain, it gets her down enough to
Waste all her dreams on a paycheck and drown
But she needs to laugh sometimes
And she dreams you’ll take her with you, anywhere
‘Cause these air traffic lanes need you now

When you go, when you go
Away
When you go, can you come
This way
‘Cause I feel safe in your arms
And she’s got dashes in her stars
I hope you both, come around
This way

I really can’t tell if I’m dreaming or breathing, could be actually leaving the day on the ground. But I’m easing into the dark and lifting off hand in yours hand in yours and the clouds never look like this down here, and the stars make a sound way up here. And I never miss the sun when I’m with you. I never miss the sea. Like I’m never leaving home. I’m never all alone. I’m just waiting for the magic of the diamonds of the trees; here with you, here with us. Way up in the air and birds in the snow. The great, grey sky.

‘Cause I feel safe in your arms
And she’s got dashes in her stars
Let’s run away, fast and far
And no matter where you are
I hope you know that we can show this world
It just can’t bring us down
From these clouds, when we come
This way

Oh, this way
Someday
Someday
This way

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Gerard Way előző kislemezdala, a baktériumokról szóló novemberi Getting Down The Germs a náthás időkhöz:

The answer’s always no
To questions of a private nature
The lights are always low
In settings of a conversation
The ankle trips a wire
While phasing into oscillation
We’ll take it while we go
And leave behind our reservations
It goes down

It’s never the same and the nights always glow
There’s nothing to see and nowhere to go
It’s easy to say you’re happier when you’re disturbed
The grey lights in your head
Getting down the germs
I’m lazy and tame and the chimes always blow
A glimmering sound on the breeze when you go
It’s never a shame and I’ve learned to live with the worms
Underground
Getting down the germs

She’s happy when it grows
To heights above a normal nature
The spirit always shows
A life beyond a resignation
The hammer breaks the toes
A sliver of a conversation
It’s just above a hum
We’ll talk about it at the station
It goes down

It’s never the same and the nights always glow
There’s nothing to see and nowhere to go
It’s easy to say you’re happier when you’re disturbed
The green lights in your head
Getting down the germs
I’m lazy and tame and the chimes always blow
A glimmering sound on the breeze when you go
It’s never a shame and I’ve learned to live with the worms
Underground

Getting down
Getting down the germs
Getting down the germs

It’s never the same and the nights always glow
There’s nothing to see and nowhere to go
It’s easy to say you’re happier when you’re disturbed
The grey lights in your head
Getting down the germs
I’m lazy and tame and the chimes always blow
A glimmering sound on the breeze when you go
It’s never a shame cause they love to watch when you squirm
All around
Getting down
Getting down the germs

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Lydia Night együttesének, a Regrettesnek a tavaly karácsonyi feldolgozása az All I Want For Christmas című Mariah Carey-slágerből:

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a Regrettes két 2018-as klipje, a Come Through februárból és a California Friends novemberből. . .

. . . és a zenekar Poor Boy című legfrissebb kislemezdala szintén novemberből: