January 2022
'The Killing Room' was written in 2012. It started by playing around with the run down from The Em chord - Em/E -> Em/Eb -> Em/D -> Em/Db and the usual progression to Am and B7. It's a 50's noir, Chandleresque tabloid story - faithless woman shot by the shady boyfriend. Deliberately dark.
The song was also recorded in 2012 using Logic Pro on, what was by then, an old iMac. Images of the recording are shown below.
The video was made with iMovie, using clips from a holiday in Prague.
There are links to more songs by Jalodrome here: jalodrome.co.uk/p/music.
Killing Room
©John Allen/Richard Varey
They caught it in the photograph
Front page, local news
Lipstick on a broken glass
A pair of blood stained shoes
Powder on the tablecloth
Flowers on the floor
Looks like Jackson Pollock
Painted red across the door
Ooh
So now we’re really through
What was I supposed to do
You kill me
So darling I kill you
They didn’t show the scream you made
The way you lied to me
They didn’t show the heartbreak
How easily we bleed
Ooh
So now we’re really through
What was I supposed to do
You kill me
So darling I kill you
The chord sequence repeats throughout:
Em - - - Em/Eb - - -
Em/D - - - Em/Db - - -
Am - - - - - - -
B7 - - - - - - -
A few screenshots from the recording of 'The Killing Room' on Logic Pro X.
Click on an image to enlarge.
