Little Drummer Boy

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"**Little Drummer Boy**" is an October Noir song included on their second album *Thirteen*, released in 2019. This song is split into three cantos, each having distinctly different makeup. The beginning of the first canto, named "In Limbo", kind of resembles that of "Glass Walls of Limbo" by Type O Negative, then the second canto "No Fortune in the Price of Death" begins with piano-rich section with rhythm that is similar to the canto "Leave Her Alone" in "September Sun" by Type O. The third canto, "Rhythm of His Drum" which is also the alternate title of this whole song, has somewhat punky riff kind of reminiscent to that of "We Hate Everyone". Right before the track ends, the recording of grandfather chimes can be heard.

"Little Drummer Boy" is about dying to meet their souls of the former life like Jesus Christ and Albert Einstein, but their souls are actually the same as very himself as mentioned in the lyric line 'You're the spirit of their demise'. Another lyric line 'the rhythm of his drum' was taken as a metaphor for pride. The title seems to refer that a little boy who is obsessed with playing drums, producing rhythms.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "In Limbo"]**

[Instrumental]

**[Canto II. "No Fortune in the Price of Death"]**

You stabbed yourself with your father's sword

Convictional eyes atop your pedestal

Praise the mime that was sterilized

Worshipped by vile imitations

Extortional pride - a legend in his own mind

Pseudo apathy - your clever disguise

Cantankerous and you blame the Earth

Yet the mirrors show all the answers

The King that lies

The King that dies

No fortune in the price of death

Not Nikoli

nor Einstein

You're the spirit of their demise

Give up those that would bare your name

Shelter the ones that take everything

Seek your soul in a trashy hole

or the bottom of a bottle

Beneath the surface there is a boy that hides

in bondage of hate compassion subsides

Sway to the beat, the rhythm of your drum

The easily deceived - the only ones who listen

Your selfish pride

speaks suicide

No fortune in the price of death

Not Vincent Price

nor Jesus Christ

You're the spear driven in his side

**[Canto III. "Rhythm of His Drum"]**

Alas, the savior can't save himself

Respect - put in what you want out

Footsteps of contradiction

Clench tight while you choke on your own advice

The rhythm of his drum

The rhythm of his drum

I guess I'll just go fuck myself

Your red little light burns out

This glass insurrection

Sleep tight - you'll find death in the afterlife

[Incomprehensible]

The rhythm of his drum

The rhythm of his drum

The rhythm of his drum

The rhythm of his drum

## Personnel

* **Tom Noir** – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, piano, writing, engineering, mixing, mastering, production
* Daniel Stickz Bryant – drums

1. "The Haunting"
2. "Volatile"
3. "Trinity"
4. "Alpha Omega"
5. "Exhume"
6. "Silicon"
7. "Deep Woods"
8. "Vertebra Seraphim"
9. "Feel Heart Love"
10. "Beautifool"

2. "Burn"
3. "Spellbound"
4. "**Little Drummer Boy**"
5. "Symmetry"
6. "Black Light"
7. "Lavender"
8. "The Veil"
9. "Her Dark Embrace"
10. "Cauterize"

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2. "Windows"
3. "Reverence (Make You Love)"
4. "Effigy"
5. "Wine"
6. "Persephone"
7. "Serendipity"
8. "Wanderlust"
9. "Cradle the Monster"
10. "Wisteria"
11. "Sistinas"
12. "Proverbs"
13. "Goodbye Black Bird"
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1. "Spring"
2. "Endless Lonely"
3. "A Halo Hung from Horns"
4. "Forever Haunt"
5. "Deja View"
6. "Summer to Autumn"
7. "Clench"
8. "Tourniquet"
9. "For Honor"
10. "Flash Paper Matches"
11. "She's Gone"
12. "Winter"

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* "Race War"
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* "Crimson and Clover"
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