Lisa Germano
Lisa Germano is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer and arranger from M… Read Full Bio ↴Lisa Germano is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer and arranger from Mishawaka, Indiana.
After years playing violin as a session musician with the likes of John Mellencamp, Indigo Girls and Bob Dylan, Germano embarked on a solo career in 1991 with the understated but occasionally brilliant On The Way Down From The Moon Palace on her own label, which led to a deal with Capitol, who released her second album. Although Happiness was a massive step up in terms of confidence and songwriting, troubles at the label led to her buying back the rights. In 1994 4AD released a re-sequenced and remixed version of Happiness with a new sleeve and a few different tracks (including a gloomy version of the formerly scintillating ‘... Dresses’).
She turned out to be not just a great musician (she plays most of the instruments: piano, guitar, percussion and tape effects, as well as her trademark violin) and a wittily melancholy if kooky songwriter (‘I Love A Snot’, indeed), but a phenomenal arranger whose innovation and breadth of expression is comparable to PJ Harvey at her tape-mangling best.
As her style developed, so the music’s potential commercial appeal increased without compromising its uniqueness. Bright kaleidoscopes during an otherwise dark time in 4AD’s history, the following three albums, Geek The Girl, Excerpts From A Love Circus and Slide all won critical acclaim, but sadly failed to reach the wide audience they deserved; Germano was dropped in 1998, and announced her retirement from the music business.
(In 1997, she also released a collaboration with Giant Sand and future members of Calexico under the name OP8 Featuring The Ilk Of Lisa Germano).
Retirement didn’t suit her, and she was soon out on tour again, sessioning for David Bowie and Neil Finn, before, in 2003, releasing the self-funded Lullaby For Liquid Pig on ArtistDIRECT imprint Ineffable. A return to the woozy, after-the-carnival soundworld of ...Love Circus, the album was made with help from collaborators Finn, Johnny Marr and Wendy Melvoin.
Label-less again after Ineffable dissolved, Swans mainstay and longtime Germano fan Michael Gira snapped her up for his Young God label, which in 2007 released In The Maybe World, a stripped-down but ultimately hopeful reflection on mortality inspired by the death of, well, a cat, but also the imagined death of her Father. Young God subsequently reissued Liquid Pig with an extra CD of live recordings and demos, whose between-song banter highlighted Germano’s unique and cat-slanted take on life and death.
In September 2009 the album Magic Neighbor was released, again on Young God Records.
She also works with Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer
Official site: www.lisagermano.com
After years playing violin as a session musician with the likes of John Mellencamp, Indigo Girls and Bob Dylan, Germano embarked on a solo career in 1991 with the understated but occasionally brilliant On The Way Down From The Moon Palace on her own label, which led to a deal with Capitol, who released her second album. Although Happiness was a massive step up in terms of confidence and songwriting, troubles at the label led to her buying back the rights. In 1994 4AD released a re-sequenced and remixed version of Happiness with a new sleeve and a few different tracks (including a gloomy version of the formerly scintillating ‘... Dresses’).
She turned out to be not just a great musician (she plays most of the instruments: piano, guitar, percussion and tape effects, as well as her trademark violin) and a wittily melancholy if kooky songwriter (‘I Love A Snot’, indeed), but a phenomenal arranger whose innovation and breadth of expression is comparable to PJ Harvey at her tape-mangling best.
As her style developed, so the music’s potential commercial appeal increased without compromising its uniqueness. Bright kaleidoscopes during an otherwise dark time in 4AD’s history, the following three albums, Geek The Girl, Excerpts From A Love Circus and Slide all won critical acclaim, but sadly failed to reach the wide audience they deserved; Germano was dropped in 1998, and announced her retirement from the music business.
(In 1997, she also released a collaboration with Giant Sand and future members of Calexico under the name OP8 Featuring The Ilk Of Lisa Germano).
Retirement didn’t suit her, and she was soon out on tour again, sessioning for David Bowie and Neil Finn, before, in 2003, releasing the self-funded Lullaby For Liquid Pig on ArtistDIRECT imprint Ineffable. A return to the woozy, after-the-carnival soundworld of ...Love Circus, the album was made with help from collaborators Finn, Johnny Marr and Wendy Melvoin.
Label-less again after Ineffable dissolved, Swans mainstay and longtime Germano fan Michael Gira snapped her up for his Young God label, which in 2007 released In The Maybe World, a stripped-down but ultimately hopeful reflection on mortality inspired by the death of, well, a cat, but also the imagined death of her Father. Young God subsequently reissued Liquid Pig with an extra CD of live recordings and demos, whose between-song banter highlighted Germano’s unique and cat-slanted take on life and death.
In September 2009 the album Magic Neighbor was released, again on Young God Records.
She also works with Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer
Official site: www.lisagermano.com
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Lisa Germano Lyrics
... A Psychopath A baseball bat, a baseball bat beside my bed I'll wait…
... And So On And when you break a heart That’s always after you under …
... Of Love and Colors People. All us fucked-up people, What are we gonna do With…
....to Dream Only when it's real When it speaks to you And no one…
...And So On And when you break a heart That’s always after you under An…
...of Love and Colors People. All us fucked-up people, What are we gonna do With o…
...To Dream Only when it's real When it speaks to you And no one…
A Feast She walks in a desert with unwanted toys Make me the…
A Guy Like You I can't hear anything You can yell, you can scream I got…
A Million Times We fell in love and we were caught Inside this game…
A Seed Love is just a seed that wants to grow Put it…
after monday Hey hey It’s just a rainy day And i’ve gone blue I though…
All The Pretty Lies Apologize Wipe your eyes out No one's there They can't care …
And So On And when you break a heart That’s always after you under …
Angels Turn to Devils You change me Then you hate me I let you every time You…
Apathy and The Devil It’s only apathy and the devil They like to hang around…
Around the World How can I say? I lost my head It was in the…
Baby On A Plane I see your eyes looking at me Oh yeah, all right,…
Bad Attitude You wish it was sunny, But it's not The sun will…
Big Big World Got a big big heart A big broken heart In a big…
Blue Monday So, you're goin' cross Country You're leavin' me today I can…
Bruises Coffee in the morning And wine in the evening And…
Bye Bye Little Doggie Feels like dancing Feels like falling On the ground Real har…
Cancer of Everything I won't settle down, I can't settle down I won't cut…
Candy Oh yeah It's my favorite feeling Not there What a good place…
Cowboy I love my little cowboy When he laughs, I'm happy When I'm…
Crash You could say I feel this way 'Cause it's the way…
Cry Baby Could it be your touch Could It be your kiss…
Cry Wolf Love is weird, love She's overdone it, can't go on She cause…
Darkest Night Of All Goodnight How can you sleep? How can you sleep through this?…
Destroy the Flower She loved beautiful things They made her smile and sing Put …
Diamonds Such a cold world Such cold times When man goes so low One…
Dig My Own Grave These foolish foolish Thoughts Why don they go away They…
Dream Glasses Off Hey, again I thought that you were my friend Take the dream…
Dresses  You make we want to wear dresses You make we want…
Dresses Song  You make we want to wear dresses You make we want…
Earth Enough Enough Enough How much Can I Accept Enough Remember m…
Electrified Electrified Play the day again They're probably watchin' Try…
Eli's Comin' Eli's comin' Eli's comin' Whoa you better hide your heart …
Energy You never wanted this to last You'd always rather feel bad W…
Everyone Undone, everything's over High strung, minutes are floating …
Everyone's Victim Undone, everything's over High strung, minutes are floating…
except for the ghosts Wind chimes Waves climb Over and done Heavy passing Weig…
Forget it it's a Mystery I hate you cause I love you I need you cause…
From A Shell And the Earth spins 'round while the people fall down, And…
Fun Fun for Everyone You lose, I spy you I spy you hiding I win, I…
Geek the Girl Perfect and dull decorate, perfect and dull Keepin' the cool…
golden cities Never ending Stories about finding Golden cities Pulling …
Guessing Game I can only guess The thoughts runnin' Through you When you n…
Guillotine After the storm After you're gone Where are my arms? Where i…
Hangin' With a Dead Man The best Is you and me Together Together Can't I…
Happiness Happiness yeah Happiness is like tv On or off It's up to me …
Haunted In your face In your face You are in your face Several days…
I Love a Snot Shaky shaky hands Shaky shaky legs Shaky shaky stomach W…
If I Think of Love Wait to get off Immature, senseless Suitable Don't think …
in the land of fairies Narcissistic little fairy Why do i feel dead Who was that …
in the maybe world After winter Comes another storm It’s a shiver It’s a fre…
into oblivion Somewhere Someone’s sleeping Somewhere i saw blue eyes be…
Into The Night In the wrong time In the wrong place In the wrong mind Can'…
It's A Rainbow Did you see it? For a second anyway it was real And…
It's Party Time It's too much me And none of the people I wanna be 9,…
La Parade Another day to live Another way to go Nobody's in this roo…
Last Straws for Sale Last straws for sale Last straws for sale You need your sins…
Liquid Pig Where did you go What did you say Who did you call What…
Lovesick You're not my Yoko Ono You said those words to me You…
Lullaby For Liquid Pig I need a fix A little one And then it's over Then I'm…
Magic Breath to the earth, Having no worth, Knife to your gut, …
Magic Neighbor Mother see this, mother see this He must be God He can…
Messages from Sophia "there's more kitties in the world than just Miamo-Tutti" by Lisa and Dorothy You can carry me home now You can carry me home I'm…
Moon In Hell It seems a little safer Up in empty space Not a life…
My Secret Reason I don't know much about science My interests don't take me…
No Color Here White, bright and yellow No blue left to cry No you in…
No Elephants No place for a queen No way in Took my space Mine, mine …
Nobody's Playing These are your secrets Hidden inside Wherever you go Whereve…
Other One When you fool yourself The other one When you fool…
Paper Doll In my mind In my mind It was oh so fine Happy now Happy…
Pearls Falling fast Raise your glass Fill your open sores Whil…
Princess Sexy little girl princess, Give me everything Sexy little gi…
Puppet Speak, speak my little heart Is that such bad a sin? Where…
red thread So many movies Touching the memories Leaving you cold Or…
Reptile Extraterrestrial Down on the corner So unfamiliar And making…
Riding My Bike Riding my bike I was riding my bike Across the street…
Ruminants Ruminants Four stomachs Throw up Start over I need Four stom…
Sand Young woman, share your fire with me My heart is cold,…
Sexy Little Girl Princess Sexy little girl princess, Give me everything Sexy little gi…
Singing to the Birds So what if your heroes changed their minds And all you…
Slide If you saw me Like I see you Should I tell you? What…
Small Heads Do you ever think of me When you're through thinking of…
Starfish There was a starfish Then there was five She thought she d…
Stars Why do people like stars, They're so far away They're alw…
Strange Bird When I wake In the sun I’m here But in there Everywhere Was …
Sycophant Okay Sycophant Political What do you want me To do know? Yes…
The Darkest Night of All Goodnight How can you sleep? How can you sleep through this?…
The Day It’s a sunrise It’s a sunset It’s the memory of the onset …
The Dresse Song  You make we want to wear dresses You make we want…
The Dresses Song  You make we want to wear dresses You make we want…
The Earth Enough Enough Enough How much Can I Accept Enough Remember m…
The Mirror Is Gone If I needed you Would you love me then Would you love…
The Other One When you fool yourself The other one When you fool…
The Prince of Plati Oh, tell me a story, I need to hear I want…
To the Mighty One You're beautiful Sitting all alone here Waiting to be mo…
Tom Dick She won't believe in love Oh, poor baby 'Cause he had some…
Tom Dick & Harry She won't believe in love Oh, poor baby 'Cause he had some…
Tom Dick and Harry She won't believe in love Oh, poor baby 'Cause he had some…
Tomorrowing If you feel let down at all, you lift me Just…
Trouble Bits and pieces of love for you, So sweet and…
Turning Into Betty Oh my, my Turning into betty Oh my Turning into betty Sweet…
Up in the Air Why rain so You too We mean well, us two You and me,…
Victoria's Secret What is victoria's secret What is victoria's secret, yeah …
Victorias Secret What is victoria's secret What is victoria's secret, yeah Sh…
Way Below the Radio (humming) When you rate give me some It's not too late to…
We Suck He's happy cause I didn't say What I think anyway I can't…
wire So i wake up cold And i want to get off But…
Wood Floors Pulled the rug under me and you set me free Walk…
…And So On And when you break a heart That’s always after you under …