08 - John Frusciante - Wednesday's Song (Shadows Collide With People)

John Frusciante - Wednesday's Song
Album: Shadows Collide With People (2004)

Shadows Collide with People is the fourth studio album by John Frusciante, released February 24, 2004. The album was written during the recording of By the Way, and is widely regarded as his most accessible work, featuring a mix of guitar-driven alternative rock, folk ballads, and electronica. Frusciante has stated that this was his most expensive album to date, costing around $150,000 to produce.

Flea plays a double bass on "The Slaughter", the closing track of the album. All tracks were written by John Frusciante and the majority of the vocal work is performed by him.

Frusciante also made acoustic and demo versions of these tracks available to fans through his official site, now only a blog, as an alternative to the highly produced sound of the record. A promo version of the album was also made, with the tracks "Omission", "Song to Sing When I'm Lonely", and "Failure 33 Object".

The album reached number 191 on the Billboard 200 and #11 on Heatseekers.

On the vinyl release of the album the words "One step away" were inscribed on side A, "There's riddles in the shadows" on side B, "A hint of sadness" on side C, and '"What they least suspect is coming next" on side D. All of these were hints to lyrics on John's next solo album The Will to Death.

1. Carvel [4:14]
2. Omission [4:34]
3. Regret [2:58]
4. Ricky [3:57]
5. Second Walk [1:42]
6. Every Person [2:38]
7. -00Ghost27 [3:50]
8. Wednesday's Song [3:31]
9. This Cold [2:00]
10. Failure33Object [2:55]
11. Song To Sing When I'm Lonely [3:17]
12. Time Goes Back [3:23]
13. In Relief [3:36]
14. Water [4:06]
15. Cut-Out [3:34]
16. Chances [1:50]
17. 23 Go In To End [6:42]
18. The Slaughter [3:52]
19. Of Before [3:17] (Japanese bonus track)


Lyrics:

You'll make it through the day
See things another way and behold
Listen to Wednesday's song
This night you go home alone
How the sane go upright
How you look another night

You're back under my hat
And even knowing that you're a whore
Nothing ever meant more
Than switching rooms through a door
Out into another one
Frames flash inward

And you know
You know
I have seen the world enough
I've drowned in my thoughts a lot
Deep in rains that swirl above
I canceled heaven I concede

Another word to say
When everything's O.K. you go down
And pulling up the slack
And never coming back
An alarm

Ringing to set the sun
No one ever becomes
What others thought they should've been
Inside they're what they can see

And you know
You know I do miss this girl
To show I am in a swirl of sun
Being what I've got
The joy
I canceled heaven I concede
Everything that I believe
I canceled heaven I concede


Credits:

Release date: 23rd February 2004 in US, 24th February in the rest of the world, 3rd March in UK and 6th March in Japan
Released: Worldwide
Publisher: Warner Bros
Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes, 50 seconds
Bonus track: "Of Before" available on the Japanese import of the CD
John plays: Guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums and percussion
Other musicians: Josh Klinghoffer plays the same instruments as John (they're listed together in the credits); Chad Smith plays drums and percussion, Omar Rodriguez plays slide guitar on "Chances" and "23 go in to end" Flea plays upright bass on "The Slaughter" and Charlie Clouser did orchestral programming on "Regret" and "Chances"
Produced by: John Frusciante
Engineered by: Jim Scott, Ryan Hewitt; "23 go in to end" and "Failure33Object" by Ethan Mates
Mixed by: Jim Scott
Assisted by: Chris Holmes, Jason Grossman, Chris Ohno
Recorded/mixed at: Cello Studios, Hollywood, CA, USA
Mastered by/where: Bernie Grundman/Bernie Grundman Mastering Hollywood, CA, USA
Designed by: Richard Scane Goodheart
Cover painting by: Rene Ricard
Art direction by: John Frusciante
Equipment by: Dave Lee
Management: Q-Prime Inc.


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[tiger8769]

@musterdsandwich because it john frusciante

[robbiemusicboy]

@VonnegutFrusciante such a horrible thing to say, Frusciante would actually be ashamed, seeing as he knows the pain drugs can bring. He wouldn't wish it on anybody.

[neotri45]

Anyone else listening to these lyrics? Amazing.

[BlueWoolves]

oh i was born on a wednesday too, now we are soulmates let's get married john okay

[NinaLuxful]

I canceled heaven, I concede...

[Xxdevilwomen666xX]

holy shiit...today IS wednesday!! hahaha wat a coincidence :D <3 i didnt even think about it til i read comments about wednesday n_n

[mizzuks]

I've loved John since about 2004, his work means so much to me, and I recently found out I was born on a Wednesday. I was smiling for ages. Made me way happier than it should have.

[jewwwjew]

LOVE<333333333333333333

[MsConeSka]

My wednesday's song :)

[chadsmithfrusciante]

Just lovoe it..........................

[SpykerZaggato84]

A good sax solo would work here maybe at the end.

[Whambamchili]

I think everyone overlooks that Rebecca Black had absolutely nothing to do with the production, writing, composing or promoting of the song "Friday". Her parents hired a production studio, whose specialty is catchy pop songs, to have their daughter star in a music video. She's just a teenage girl who happened to get lucky, and that's fine with me.

So, even if Rebecca Black was a HUGE Frusciante fan, and even if it truly was alluding to this song (in the intro), it wasn't her call anyways.