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This is Scott’s penultimate moment as a songwriter, in my opinion. I mean wow – this song follows ‘The Target’ on the EP and combined they are so beautifully devastating. I remember that we performed these back to back a couple of times and I almost couldn’t sing due to choking on my tears. Listen to the progressive, unconventional song-structure, the eerie sound effects, the soaring finale and how the song forms a bridge between all incarnations of the band. Scott wrote this song before the band formed but it seems to hum with Shock Octopus DNA. It is also very Scott – a meditation on death and non-attachment which is in touch with his experiences both in Buddhist philosophy and more practically, his lived experience as a humanitarian nurse.

We almost nailed the song on this record. I struggled to deliver the first verse of the song and I still believe that the demo remains the definitive version of this part of the song. The rest of the song though – wow! We really brought ‘Die Well’ to ‘life’ (haha).

There were plans to re-record ‘Die Well’ as well as the EP’s second track ‘Into The Darkness’ for a second full-length album to take advantage of the fuller sound the band has returned to. This is still a project in semi-perpetual dormancy but you never know!

- Michael Bayliss
Shock Octopus

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carry a torch
ritualise
the most important day
just a body
on the turn
turn the mind
to remind
it's the only part
left to remain
push the envelope
into the big smoke of death,
too morbid,
concerned with death
three days sure is dead
bury the past
in the cemetery, mortuary, obituary
line the coffins with burning ghats

did you fall in love
with the person or the dead stuff?
the problem's not outside
we want to live
but not to die
who are you anyway?
the problem's not outside
we want to live but not to die
who are you anyway?
whose turn is it today?
what is real?
where is truth?
what is necessary?
how do I spend my time?
where is the emphasis?
at any moment I could die

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from A Decade Into Darkness, released May 29, 2021
Music and Lyrics: Scott Andrews

Scott Andrews: Guitars, Backing Vocals
Michael Bayliss: Vocals, Keyboards, Sound effects

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Shock Octopus Perth, Australia

Contemplative, Existential, Art Rock.

A collective stream of consciousness and social commentary by Michael Bayliss, David Blair and Scott Andrews.

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