06 - John Frusciante - Control (Curtains)

John Frusciante - Control
Album: Curtains (2005)

Curtains is the seventh solo album by John Frusciante released on February 1, 2005 through Record Collection.The last album in the six-in-six series was almost two months late due to a printing mistake, yet absolutely worth the wait. John's voice is better than ever and on some songs, such as Control and Ascension, he's literally playing with his wide vocal range and, through crystal-clear singing, once again, portraying the nude of his own soul; singing and strumming the cords from the living room for of his Los Angeles home, backed up by his friends Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Carla Azar and Ken Wild. The emotions and voice are echoing after having hit the glass and the walls and are channeled through the acoustic guitars, electric guitar overlays and even a melodica solo at the end of A Name, following the last sung lines starting with words from a children's game. On Lever Pulled, yet another song that resembles a poem from the later XIX century romanticism era, it sounds as if the notes escaped, tripped and broke against the floor. There are verses which could associate to Prometheus and Noah; yet the most of it is pure Frusciante, the raw flesh just torn off a poet's heart. Casual listeners are most likely to say that John resembles Cat Stevens on this album.

1. The Past Recedes [3:53]
2. Lever Pulled [2:22]
3. Anne [3:35]
4. The Real [3:07]
5. A Name [2:03]
6. Control [4:29]
7. Your Warning [3:33]
8. Hope [1:56]
9. Ascension [2:53]
10. Time Tonight [3:12]
11. Leap Your Bar [2:36]


Lyrics:

It's not the way I go
It's not the way I go
Noone here hears me
I'm sick of people knowing me

Life's confusing me
So much I don't see
Something's controlling me

It's no way to live
I haven't got a thing to give
And those signs trade off
I'm a line from loud to soft

For what I have to say
I wanted to build a stage
I wanted to feel this way

All this things are real
I don't know my own field

You will prove me wrong
I don't know one

I see now what I've got
It reveals just what it's not
Someday I'll take it away
There's nothing for me anyway

Love don't choose me
Wide don't see a thing
Wide don't see a thing
A thing

What I'm saying is now
I don't know what it's about
I wander through the dawn
So much goes on

Who will make me run
I admit I might be wrong
These letters shelter me now
I wonder how


Credits:

Release date: 01st February 2005
Released: Worldwide
Publisher: Record Collection Music
Duration: 33 minutes, 43 seconds
John plays: Acoustic and electric guitar, electric bass, melodica, piano, strings essemble, mellotron, synthesizer, treatments
Other musicians: Carla Azar plays the drums, Ken Wild upright bass. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta plays lead guitar on Lever Pulled and "joined guitars" with John on Anne
Produced by: John Frusciante
Engineered by: Ryan Hewitt
Mixed by: Ryan Hewitt
Mixing assisted by: Chris Holmes
Recorded/mixed at/when: John's living room (08-14th and 19-23 May 2004)
Mastered by/where: Bernie Grundman/Bernie Grundman Mastering Hollywood, CA, USA
Designed by: Mike Piscitelli, John Frusciante
Cover photograph by: Lola Montes


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[Bushie1988]

@maguida94 tell me about it .. i remember walkin home from a drunken night out and having this album on .. this song in particular made my journey home seem like 20 seconds

[kaf9614]

most inspiring, beautiful, amazing human being.

[TheFunkyCriminal]

you know a songs good when it makes your nipples hard

[FilmPriest]

I love the ending!

[datrogdor13]

ye buddy know that exact feeling

[romidcarrera]

There should be a Reaction called "goosebumps"

[romidcarrera]

@Baptiste210 If you see it from the point of view of what he says in 0:36 then perhaps those 6000 views are the best thing that happened to this song.

[romidcarrera]

Such an honest voice.

[russelld2]

This is truly, truly special.

[julianuknow]

Love Frusciante

[fabster69000]

@Baptiste210 at 0:36 listen to what he says.