Effigy

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"**Effigy**" is an October Noir song included on their third album *Fate, Wine, & Wisteria*, released in 2021. This is unique for October Noir that it really sounds like Misfits, one of two songs in the album that really sounds like a different band (the other being "Sistinas"). In this case, the song is punky and sludgy and it is also very repetitive. It has lyrics about camping out in the woods where the girl next door summons a demon who goes on to kill everyone on Halloween night.

The music video released for this song shows band members wearing masks and unusual style of clothing performing with scenes of bloody gore. Featured in the video are vocalist and bassist Tom Noir is the Frat Boy, drummer Danny Stickz as the Jock, guitarist Doug Lane as the Nerd, and several non-band members.

Brian Kohl (husband of band's photographer Dee Dee Kohl) helped Tom write this song and played all clean guitar in this one.

## Lyrics

A circle of our friends

Camp fire in haunted woods

From her sanguine stare

and the howling of the wolves

Her body language signs

elope into the night

Our secrets kept

in persuasive alibis

Multiple metaphors

escaping to the dark

What would the others say

if we happened to get caught?

"Now hush that pretty mouth

and climb between my thighs"

This was the moment when

our friends were sure to die - Oye!

There's a killer

loose with a blood lust

I'm none the wiser

I blame my own lust

And you give, and you give, and you give

with hips so dangerous

We should be heading in

but I'm just too focused

On the way that she lies spread

in perfect effigy

On this Halloween

Of oozing pheromones

this nectar of fine oil

Where steel now meets the bone

Blood fused with quakened soil

Our wooded wonderland

decorated with desire

Her arching back confirms

another death transpired

The circle of our friends

found dead by morning woods

I'll never know of when

but the blame is on us

Ashes to ashes

and lust to lust

Fingers surely point

we'd better get lost - Oye!

There's a killer

loose with a blood lust

I'm none the wiser

I blame my own lust

And you give, and you give, and you give

with hips so dangerous

We should be heading in

but I'm just too focused

On the way that she lies spread

in perfect effigy

On this Halloween

The right place and the right time

For we were nowhere in sight

Surely, surely it couldn't be us

Oh, surely, surely it couldn't be

## Personnel

* **Tom Noir** – vocals, bass, writing, production
* Doug Lane – guitar, backing vocals, writing, production
* Daniel Stickz Bryant – drums
* Justin Thompson – keyboards
* Brian Kohl – guitar, writing
* Paul Bento – production
* 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"