Liner notes
SpoilerHad to get this one written and recorded quickly last night due to other commitments this week, I think it's turned out okay. It's about a malevolent looking stain I saw on a seat on the Glasgow Subway a couple years back, and about how paranoid I feel using the subway at the moment during the pandemic, and combining those two things and making that half-remembered rusty brown face-shaped stain a mascot for my COVID anxieties.

Field recording of the COVID safety tannoy announcement at Ibrox Subway Station

Pareidolia - The Lowest Bitter

stain on the subway seat,
are you looking at me?
twisted face in that rusty brown
are you looking at me?

enemy, sat across
blemish upon upholstery
I see him leer at me, I see, I fear

I know it's only in my mind,
I know it's just a trick,
I know that there's a word for this
but I can't remember what it is

I keep seeing evil everywhere,
keep seeing illness everywhere
paranoia, pareidolia
I keep seeing omens everywhere
my eyes are liars, liars
I keep seeing evil everywhere,
keep seeing illness everywhere
paranoia, pareidolia
and the stain on the seat across from me
is the shape of a face spewing disease
oh god

I keep seeing evil everywhere,
keep seeing illness everywhere
paranoia, pareidolia
I keep seeing omens everywhere
my mind's a liar, liar
I keep seeing evil everywhere,
keep seeing illness everywhere
paranoia, pareidolia
and the stain on the seat across from me
is the shape of a face spewing disease
oh god

I keep seeing evil everywhere,
keep seeing illness everywhere
paranoia, pareidolia
I keep seeing omens everywhere