Odd Shaped Head - Corpse in the Kitchen lyrics

They came around to my house

At midnight, at midnight

And left a gift aside

I think they'd think that we'd think that’s alright

But sit tight

There’s been a homicide

She wakes up to his sunrise

The … sticks to her eye

Stay awakes to surprise

There’s a corpse in the kitchen

Slowly realising

I’m done up with hiding

The saddle is for riding

There’s a corpse in the kitchen

 

Slowly creeping downstairs

Pulling twice on her hair

Throws him down with no care

Steps over …

Broken bits of porcelain

The cat had put me out?

There’s a corpse in the kitchen

Chorus x4

They don’t go by any old name

They deposit random objects but they love you all the same

They came around to my house

At midnight, at midnight

And left a gift aside

I think they would think they’d think that’s alright

But sit tight

There’s been a homicide

 

Pushing through the darkness of the kitchen gloom aside

He’s attracted to her differently, there’s a picture in the light?

There’s a corpse in the kitchen (overlaps the previous line)

He’s casting silhouettes against and fallen up her walls?

He turns around and gasps as he hears footsteps in the hall?

There’s a corpse in the kitchen (overlaps the previous line)

(Spoken with a brief pause in between each word)

I did warn you not to hear

There are two dead bo..dies here

Chorus x4

They came around to my house

At midnight, at midnight

And left a gift aside

I think they would think they’d think that’s alright

But sit tight

There’s been a homicide


Since a story is told within the lyrics, it would be difficult to make a cohesive disjunctive music video. A illustrative or amplification style would therefore be better suited. The story takes place entirely within a house which is useful to us as we have access to one to film in. The controlled setting allows us to both control variables which would detract from continuity, such as people in the background, and the lighting would be under more duress than it would be outside.

The referral of the protagonists in the third person creates an air of the unknown, which we could capitalise on through framing the shot in such a way to not reveal an identity or achieve the same effect through cutting panning shots just short in the edit. The song being set at midnight would mean the lighting has to be quite dark.This allows us to be able to highlight certain props within the frame with spotlighting more effectively.

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