# Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey

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Cover Your Heart is a compilation album by American rock band Black Light Burns. It consists of a CD (Cover Your Heart) and a DVD (The Anvil Pants Odyssey), which was a professionally shot documentary of when Black Light Burns was touring for roughly a year and a half on their debut album Cruel Melody, which preceded this release.

## Track listing

| # | Title | Time | Songwriter(s) | Notes |
| 1 | "Forkboy" | 4:04 | Paul G. Barker, Jello Biafra, Al Jourgensen, Will Fredrick Rieflin, Jeffery Thomas Ward | Originally performed by Lard |
| 2 | "So Alive" | 3:33 | Daniel Ash, Kevin Michael Dompe, David J. Haskins | Originally performed by Love and Rockets |
| 3 | "Hungry Like the Wolf" | 3:44 | Nicholas James Bates, Simon John Le Bon, Andrew Taylor, John Nigel Taylor, Roger Taylor | Originally performed by Duran Duran |
| 4 | "Lucretia My Reflection" | 4:32 | Andrew Eldritch | Originally performed by The Sisters of Mercy |
| 5 | "Rid of Me" | 4:09 | Polly Jean Harvey | Originally performed by PJ Harvey |
| 6 | "The Art of Self Defense" | 2:46 | Duane Paul Denison, Carey McNeilly, David WM Sims, David Lambeth Yow | Originally performed by The Jesus Lizard |
| 7 | "On the Bound" | 4:56 | Fiona Apple, Maude Maggart | Originally performed by Fiona Apple |
| 8 | "I Am the Sun" | 3:10 | Michael Rolfe Gira | Originally performed by Swans |
| 9 | "Blood Red Head on Fire" | 3:53 | Wes Borland | Originally performed by Big Dumb Face |
| 10 | "Search & Destroy" | 3:20 | Iggy Pop, James Robert Williamson | Originally performed by The Stooges |
| 11 | "Drowning Together, Dying Alone" | 5:08 | Wes Borland | Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions |
| 12 | "Failing" | 3:55 | Wes Borland | Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions |
| 13 | "Ribbons" | 1:50 | Wes Borland | Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions |
| 14 | "Zargon Marfoauf" | 1:36 | Wes Borland | Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions |
| 15 | "Vennisoun" | 2:04 | Wes Borland | Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions |
| 16 | "Zlitchufdux" | 1:46 | Wes Borland | Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions |
| 17 | "Giving in Again" | 4:36 | Wes Borland | Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions |

## Personnel

* Wes Borland – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, producer, mixing
* Marshall Kilpatric – drums, percussion (on 1-10 and 14)
* Nick Annis – guitar on (1, 2 and 5)
* Sean Fetterman – bass on (2 and 5)
* Greg Isabelle – drums (on 12)
* Jeff Hannan – engineering, Mixing
* Austin Satterfield – engineering assistant
* Dave Collins – mastering

## DVD

The DVD "Anvil Pants Odyssey" consists of a nearly two-hour-long documentary with the band, the music videos for "Mesopotamia," "4 Walls," and "Lie," and also features a behind the scenes look at the making of the "Lie" video. The DVD's content was primarily filmed during the summer and fall of 2007 and was filmed and edited by Satchel Underwood, including the video for "Mesopotamia" and the making of "Lie" segment. The video for "Lie" was directed by Josh Evans, while the video for "4 Walls" was directed by Wes Borland.