Red Onion (formerly known as Words That Try to Resurface or Words That Try to Make Sense) is a formerly unidentified alternative rock song by Seattle-based band Love Battery, initially released on the Nehru Jacket EP in 1994 and was later released apart of the Straight Freak Ticket album in 1995.
Search History
On December 11th, 2022, user "Most Mysterious 90s" (also known as "marktrail") posted a six-second snippet of the song to YouTube, giving it the placeholder “Words That Johnny Lay Circus”. He said the song was recorded off of KBOO around 1994.
The OP gave an explanation for why the snippets he recorded were so short, saying in his channel’s bio:
“In the first half of the 90s, I used to record tapes from the radio which consisted of mostly incomplete songs, usually very short snippets. I think the idea was to make a sort of weird radio sound-collage, and to create an audio snapshot of what was on the radio at the time, and to fit hundreds of songs onto a 60- or 90-minute tape.”[1]
On January 22nd, 2023, lostwave poster Ziro re-uploaded the song onto her channel, giving the placeholder "Words That Try To Resurface". Multiple other users in the replies debated the song’s lyrics, providing several interpretations.
The song was identified on October 24th, 2024, by the OP himself, as Red Onion by Love Battery after he was shopping for records on Discogs, found the album, and decided to listen to the song. He noted that the band was well known and the lyrics were online, saying he was surprised it took so long to find.[2]
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
There's a smile bright
That stands between me and hell
Out of the corner of a dream
Wrap the world around the seam
That holds the mystery in
That holds me tight
[Chorus]
It's your favorite thing
It's your favorite thing
It's your favorite handshake
It's your favorite thing
[Verse 2]
Before you hold
These three nights
Round your soul
Keep it tight
Wrap the world
Around the seam
[Chorus]
It's your favorite thing
It's your favorite thing
(These are the words, try to accept)
(These are the words, try to accept)
(These are the words, try to accept)
[Pre-Chorus]
Before you go hold me tight
Round my soul
[Chorus]
It's your favorite thing
It's your favorite thing
These are the words, try to accept
It's your favorite thing
These are the words, try to accept
It's your favorite thing
These are the words, try to accept
[Outro]
It's your favorite thing
These are the words, try to accept
These are the words, try to accept
These are the words, try to accept
These are the words, try to accept
These are the words
Gallery
External Links
- Original YouTube snippet upload.
- Song on YouTube.
- Love Battery article on Wikipedia.
- Discogs page
- Complete album.
References
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marktrail’s Lostwave Songs | |
|---|---|
| Buddies • College Song • Congliptious • Damaged Wreckage • Days That Never Were • Dy-No-Mite • Evening In The City • (Everybody) Get Ready (For Swingin' Beef) • Four By Four • Hot Piston • I Am Gross / No You're Not! (Live) • Inert Pieces • Liquorice Flavor • Love Chow • Maniac Laugh • Needles • Never Let Me Go • New Jersey • One Step Closer • Pleasure Heist • Red Onion • Rub • Sally • Santa's on the Nod • Schizophrenic X'Mas • Seedless • Song In G Flat • Spiral • Squeaky • Suffocated by Religion • The Machine • Toy Time • Watermelon • Zero Day | |
| Caterwauling Noise Rock • Micro Mysterious Song • Where I'm At | |