Proverbs

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"**Proverbs**" is an October Noir song included on their third album *Fate, Wine, & Wisteria*, released in 2021. This song is a homage to the demon shown on the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, more to be mentioned below. It is about Adam and Eve that resided in the Garden of Eden, just like Type O Negative song "An Ode to Locksmiths". The lyrics are like proverbs written up by Tom Noir and he used that to base the knowledge on the stories of Adam and Eve to get his lover back.

"Proverbs" is divided into three named parts or cantos–"Original Sin", "Disobedience", and "Forbidden Fruit". "Original Sin" has the band's typical-styled riff overlaid with atmospheric keyboards. "Disobedience" is an instrumental section that features a Chinese 13-string instrument called guzheng, which is played by Doug Lane. The notes played on guzheng were taken from the demon who transcribed musical notes on the guy's butt shown on the aforementioned painting. Its rhythm is similar to the slowed down version of "Boom Boom Pow" by The Black Eyed Peas and there's a rhythmic sample of a Mozart song "Leck mich im Arsch" embedded in them. There's also a buried sounds of women talking, dishes and utensils as if recorded from a dining area. Then the last canto, "Forbidden Fruit", contains similar sounding to that of old Star Trek songs.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Original Sin"]**

She claims I look like Jesus

but I can't save you

Adam uses love to get sex

While Eve uses sex to get love

Perhaps too profound for weakness

Accepting of death than to serve

Promise the world in an instant

So long as there are others to groom

Only the dead will ever care

Entitled feigned innocence blues

Rumored to find hindered respect

Concealed knife in a stiletto boot

The greatest wonder of Eden

Between her legs and man's generational doom

**[Canto II. "Disobedience"]**

[Instrumental]

**[Canto III. "Forbidden Fruit"]**

As sure as the red

from the Heaven's bleeds blue

The garden's snake guards the fruit

If lost and alone

is the seed of your truth

Know I'm waiting for you

As sure as the red

from the Heaven's bleeds blue

The garden's snake guards the fruit

If lost and alone

is the seed of your truth

Know I'm waiting for you

## Personnel

* **Tom Noir** – vocals, bass, writing, production
* Doug Lane – guitar, guzheng, production
* Daniel Stickz Bryant – drums
* Justin Thompson – keyboards
* Wicked Wind Music – engineering, mixing, mastering, production

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"

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

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**"
 ***Letters to Existence***

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"

* "Pictures of Matchstick Men (RIPeter)"
* "Lips Like Sugar"
* "Wicked Game"
* "Race War"
* "Cry Little Sister"
* "Love You to Death"
* "Crimson and Clover"
* "Nights in White Satin"