Dead Man Ray is a Belgian cult rock band, originating from Berchem near Antwerp. Among its members are Daan Stuyven, Rudy Trouvé (dEUS, Kiss My Jazz), Elko Blijweerdt, Wouter Van Belle and Herman Houbrechts, who was later replaced by drummer Karel De Backer. Their debut Berchem was released in 1998 including the singles Chemical and Beegee. In 1999 Dead Man Ray wrote partly a new soundtrack for the movie At the Drop of A Head (alias ,,Café zonder bier" i.e. A Pub With No Beer), starring singer-songwriter Bobbejaan Schoepen (1962). They did a sell out tour with this movie in Belgium and the Netherlands. The second album Trap was released in 2000 and contains some songs of this project. The album Cago was recorded in 2002 in Chicago and produced by Steve Albini (Nirvana).
Studio albums:
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky) (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Described as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements; although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Ray produced major works in a variety of media and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer, even though he considered himself a painter above all. Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, with the artist coining the term "Rayographs" in reference to himself.
Whilst appreciation for Ray's work beyond his fashion and portrait photography was not forthcoming during his lifetime, especially in his native United States, his reputation has grown steadily in the decades since.[citation needed]
From the time he began attracting attention as an artist until his death more than sixty years later, Man Ray allowed little of his early life or family background to be known to the public, even refusing to acknowledge that he ever had a name other than Man Ray.
Dead man or Dead Man may refer to:
Raymond H. Brenner (March 18, 1898 – June 14, 1975) was a professional football player who played 2 seasons in the National Football League, with the Canton Bulldogs. He played during the 1925 season. He is listed by the Pro Football Researchers Association as being one of the smallest professional football players of all-time.
Piano
We’ve been in these woods
Since i don’t know when
Now my axe is blunt
Though there’s nothing cut
If you want me to
I will show you
Where to go to
In these woods
It’s been wonderfull
Like a struggle should
I’ve got no bitter thoughts
Yes my stay’s been good
We’ll go barefoot
Alien blisters from walking to rome
Give me my tongue back
I’ll wipe off the dirt of your songs
Soprano
Organ
Drums
Guitar
We spent a lot of time
In a hallow heartache
Breading in the pine
With a pile of footage
But there came a day
When i shook my head
Like a wind-up toy
Shiny cherry red
We grew up in woods
Defining
What broke down in woods
By denying
Either dusk or dawn
On my shoestrings
All the rabbits hung in a cold rain
Heaven of the sorry kind
Wisdom from a runner’s mind
We fell down in woods
As united doves
Lumberjacks in mist
Warming up to stoves
If i weren’t a wood
I would wrap you in with drifting wood
I’d take you down like a river would
We grew up like trees
Leaving shades behind
Cruising noman’s land
We were weak plants
If you want me to
I will hold you
I will rock you
I made a big mistake
But I’m happy that I did
I got it all on tape
And now I’m learning it by heart
I signed a stupid pact
Pollitically correct
You thought that you could trust me
Now nothing is intact
You know I’m not the sorry kind
So why don’t you pretend
To welcome these apologies
And humble words
Excuse me my friend
For things that will happen again
I was wrong from start till end
But I know it will happen again
JOHN NAVODNY LINE ONE
john you have a call on line one
todd trainer you have a telephone call on line one
I tried to make a blend
Between the pitstops and the end
I recognized the bed
But it was dark and I was bad
When everything’s at stake
Always cutting the wrong cake
You trust me cause I’m fake
But than I drove you into the lake
You know I’m not the sorry kind
So why don’t you accept
These humble words and filtered lies
Why don’t you
Excuse me my friend
For things that will happen again
I was wrong from start till end
I know it will happen again
Flexible taxable actions will prove
That these Golden mistakes are a sign of my youth
I was teaching the pupils the bible of lust
To learn how to live without having to trust
Don’t worry I’m sorry
Excuse me my friend
For things that will happen again
I was wrong from start till end
Can I play you ? I know your face you need a light
Like you play me ? A fireman without a spark
Can I wash you ? Purify the emptyness
Like you dry me ? A built to fit in corners man
Can I pick you ? My random ticket lottery
Like you drop me ? Without looking if you won
Can I hurt you ? Just so you’d need company
Like you heal me ? All recycled empathy
Short term investments Low Cut Love
We’ll keep on laughing With untold jokes
Short term investments Part time mines
Easy contenders Rings on a dove
Can I mute you ? Silence’s such an easy gift
Like I gate you ? You liked the noise but not the pink
Can I melt you ? Into static blocks of led
Like you burn me ? Burn the house but not the shed
Can I call you ? Just to wake up all those friends
Like you mail me ? To postal boxes undefined
Can I res you ? and all your animated charts
Like you pect me ? gravel grind on greener plains
Short term investments Low Cut Love
We’ll keep on laughing With untold jokes
Short term investments Part time mines
The mesmerizing beauty queen
The undecifred anagram pop
We're miking all the pillow talk
The camera the double speed shot
The punchline in the magazine’s add
Digging for an afterpar ty
A strike in every power plant
We understand We know you can’t
Quit what you need
The wildgrowing seed
But are you willing to bleed
For visions of speed
Or something you don’t need
The shelter from a silent shot
Promoting badly organized raids
Corrosion of a kindergar ten
The womanizer waiting in vain
The pool inside the weatress’ blond head
The synchronizing tranquili zer
The kisses from a pessimist an optimist, a communist
No one you need
But I ain’t willing to bleed
For nothing concrete
Like visions of speed
Well it’s nothing that you need
Try to Quit what you need
The wildgrowing seed
Like gardens without gates
For your visions of speed
knowing what you need
There’s never anyone on line 1
The Transatlantic intercom lied
The conversations ment to be heard
Take all your handcuffed grabbing hands can
The Airco got the best of your head
I’m steaming up a stereo stain
Your window to a better life then what am I
Tell me now am I your speed
nothing you need
just a wildgrowing seed
well then it’s better to bleed
They say you drowned in your own style
But you were sharper then most vile
Choosing error never trial
I met your sister in some crowd
She looked surprised I hadn’t found out
She said hey we’re still around
Losing the lost
By counting backwards
Ill coated sweets you know
Stick to your teeth
Biting the bit
The bulk eraser
The beauty case
Remains unsolved
They found a picture where you smile
That’ll help us to digest
There are still some things that you know best
Some brideshead incest
Born out of pro’s
All selfinflicted prose
Losing the lost
We call the green car
Hand back the tags
Deflate our tubes
Biting the bit
The bulk eraser
The beauty case
Remains unsolved
Losing the lost
By counting backwards
Ill coated sweets you know
I always knew you were a landslide
Like plains are roofs until they fly
What you've been calling minor cracks dear
I fear are bound to shift to gaps of greed
Leave
Before they come and call you
Before you're stuck with me
Never ask for any meaning
Never ask me to be dealing
With the cure for what i’m healing
Wait in vain for prefab feelings
Now comes the time to face your plot dear
And to embrace this mental plague
I'm your neurotic countercrashtest
May i steal the engine from your burning wreck?
Fear
Won't drive you to my outskirts
So get off while you can
Jump into the same old river
Knights are white and horses shiver
Hate the series love the trailer
Like the song but hate the lyrics
So now i've written you my last will
It sounds exactly like the first
I might escort you to my to the exit
Face it dear
I'm just a hunter with no gear
This silence is amusing
And it would be a shame to sing
Bout diamonds falling off my ceiling
Moralisers keep patrolling
All my exes keep on calling
Greet the gap before you're falling
Never say you love me (you don't)
Never say you do (you don't)
Never say you trust me (you don't)
Don't believe my truth (landslide)
Fruits are best forbidden (to rot)
Roots are there to hide (deep down)
Memory's a riddance (recall)
Overpaint the slides (landslide)
Love me like a landslide (you don't)
Lead me to my mud (you won't)
Slide into the open (landslide)
I’ve been moving so long
Like a train without a station
I’ve been lying so long
Bout my nameless radiation
I’ve been cheating so long
On my own naïve infection
I’ve been hiding so long
From the eyes of my sedation
I’ve been proving so long
It’s a shameless operation
I’ve been cured for so long
I’m an addict of compassion
Crossing the fades Fading the crossings
Chappels of cool Cross me fade me
Crossing the fades Fate of a cruiser
Soften the cuts of riptidal wandering
I’ve been cruising to long
I’m the king of recreation
I’ve been pleasing so long
All those kings of procreation
I’ve been diving so long
For the pearls of my depression
I’ve been working so long
On this 13 pieces puzzle
Crossing the fades Fading the crossings
Chappels of cool Cross me fade me
Crossing the fades Fate of a cruiser
Soften the cuts riptidal wonder
Crossing the fades Fading the crossings
Chappels of cool Cross me fade me
Crossing the fades Fate of a cruiser
look at these stills
automatically shot
paramount pictures
ain’t provin’ alot
look at these pills
is it all that I got
doesn’t make me feel good
but I’m talkin a lot
and what do you see
from bottom to top
funtime & friends
yeah we’re all moving up
I want the deck not the card
I’m gonna fake a new start
gonna clean up my garbage
and sell it like art
chemical nation
look at the state you’re in
chemical nation
don’t stop at the start rebegin
look at my feet
look at my shoes
from way down to top
I can laugh at the clues
you can take away food
take away beds
taking the waves
are they girls are they pets
and what does it mean
and where did it go
pile up my bullshit
where I cannot go
and where does it stop ?
how long does it last
affraid of what they call
the chemical past
chemical nation
look at the state you’re in
chemical nation
don’t stop at the start rebegin
yeah what is that ?
is it only ?
like trenches
in the sidewalks to gold
yeah where does it comes from ?
communer income ?
your little tina’s on her away
Handicaps are cool
If you learn how to exploit them
A dedicated fool
Is always better then a shrink
You’re drowning in my pool
I know i’ll meet you at the bottom
Cause all unwritten rules
Lead the water to the mule
I can stand it
But we planned it
Like a prepaid distortion
When we canned it
Overmanned it
We collided our dust broom
We’re only centrifugitives
Undermining categories
We’re only big minorities
Moving targets suddenly freeze
Another dog named after me
Centrifugitive
Don’t insist on me to chase you
Solitary myth
Born infused by liquid looks
I’m high on primitive
But undecifrable complexions
These coroners of luck
Drove me to your tender trash
I can stand it
But we planned it
Like a prepaid distortion
When we canned it
Overmanned it
We collided our time broom
We’re only centrifugitives
Undermining categories
We’re only big minorities
Moving targets suddenly freeze
We’re only centrifugitives
Undermining categories
We’re only big minorities
Moving targets suddenly freeze
tow the car behind the van
sympathize the norfolk men
hold the clutch fasten all you can
read the sponsored cycling chest
crawlin’ pilots at their best
sauerkraut and sensimilia fest
there was a time we booked a road to tendermess
that ain’t a mine it’s just a brenner to be passed
if you ever strike thinner oil
or fold up a cloth
with a pattern that’s more gentle on you
then call your class
and decifer your frigid fears
and forms to be filled in to pass so they’ll last
someone to hype someone to bribe the angel in you
that someone ain’t me it’s just a brenner to be passed
well this peak is unlikely to flatten
this tarmac not to melt
these edelweismen will tell you all
just like stories of coffee machines
breakin’ corner stones
comes as a minor surprise
but where does it come from like that
i’ll call a stand-in stoned box
flyin hells up a russian cut
common and sane
it’s common insane
i am gettin there
not from the salvation of cat
not from the salvation of starfish
crossing over borderlines
takin’ down all the ticket lines
why do they sell you that ?
you could’ve saved
you could’ve saved me from that
you’re not awake above my eyes
longer time on residental side
fisherman is a shoulder
more like a beegee song
not like a radio station theme man
just like a beegee
tourists invasions of tragedy stations
long distance callers are warning the nations
that’s not the real thing
no that’s not a bee gee
fisherman won’t you tell me the story
why ain’t that you on the picture of glory
that’s not the real thing
no that’s not the real thing
don’t go down on boats that are broken
don’t go saying that song is a token
that’s not the real thing
no that’s not a beegee
spinning wheel crashes in silk laboratories
put all the parasols back in the lorry
that’s not the real thing
no that’s not the real thing
getting cold fly like random white crosses
why did you bring that to my porch tuner dog
said that word is calling me
and now i know it’s calling me
don’t take my head and pull my teeth
and shook my head like a silver sleeve
not the station cought my tought
no not that fear or atmosphere
i can stay up reading product warning
when all i do is not getting cought in this
don’t cut my hands in 2 why a car some day
is a lot that don’t think
i got it i found it i got it
We’ll never walk a dead end line
Or a bribed or a hyped or a limed one
We’ll always be there right in time
We’re so cool that we don’t mind
We’ll never speak in triple tongues
Of the wrongs of the ones we can¹t get to
We’ll never envy anyone
with a gun having fun in a fast car
Cause we’re so human, so common, so refined
We’re always charming, disarming the clue
Always authentic, romantic, electric
Never excentric, three entric, bombastic
In love with silly answers and candy coated pulp
We’re of our potential and silent bout our youth
Don’t ever try to wake us up
From the dream I admit we ain’t dreaming
Don’t give in to a single doubt
in a crowd that ain’t like you
Don’t ever have a second thought
or a fourth or a fifth or a sixteenth
And always try to break the ice
in a gaslit room on fire
Always authentic, the bright stars, the right cars
Always for rentals, the gentles, the true ones
Always authentic, fantastic, so drastic
We're so intriguing, fatiguing ourselves
We pile up our credentials
Our CV-gated smiles
We jump over your fences
Decide we’re just like you
Those systematic breakdowns are easy to explain
These daily deviations mislead us from the main
We’re climbing up a rotten tree
And forget that we cut all the branches
We hide in artificial bush
And we joyride the rendeer
We’ll always make a better deal
Never steal, never blink, never whisper
We’ll always try to please your dad
not the youngest of your sisters
Cause we’re so human, so common, the greatest
We're always charming disarming the clue
Always authentic, the bright stars, the right cars
Always for rentals, the gentles, the true ones
Let's make a scandal, demental our fractals
Let's show the world we’re authentically cruel
With every flight that’s cancelled
The calmer we remain
While waiting by the wrong gate
We’re heading for an uncatholic wedding
Throwing that snowy white guilty rice
My guilty head
I’m cleaning the old toyota’s shining
I neutralized simonized each dirty spot
With rags of your torn shirt
My heart is franchised
To the eternally capsized
I’m always falling of
Relatively small boats
But if you learn to love me
Then i’ll learn to like you
Simple things, they always tangle up
So thanks for the giving
But i can’t give you back
A single thing
Hit it
There’ll be an extra ball for you
Between the uneven scores
And the selfelected whores of fame
You fight it
My pulvarizer some clean horizon
All things change
So why shouldn’t we
So if you learn to hate me
Then i’ll learn to love you
Simple things, they say they always tangle up
So thanks for the giving
But i can’t give you back