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Take the Prescription

by Major Parkinson

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A genre-fluid little pop anthem that investigates the ambiguous feelings of returning to life after a near-death experience. Rewritten and recorded in the aftermath of a life-threatening on-stage heart attack of October 2022.

The song offers a dual perspective of the incident from both lead singer Jon Ivar Kollbotn and co-vocalist Peri Winkle. Within this tune is a journey through the abyss, dying, watching someone you love die, and the strange emptiness of returning to life.

lyrics

as if by design
miss borderline
your mind was meant to fuck you up someday
they got prozac pills
like fire drills
to moderate the light of day
and in the dark room of your heart
they just jolt you back to start
like Monopoly on ice
a piece of paradise
for me and you
you and me
always
worever

so take the prescription
follow the doctor's advise
read the instructions
swallow down these pills of demise
and come on!!
feel the pharmaceutical joy
elevate yourself towards the sky
and let yourself go
take the prescription

I saw you slipping away
just like a cigarette
I watched you under the pipeline
as they drove your life away
in October
it was over
and I remember everything
I wanna tell you that you can be inside of my dream
if I can be in yours
so hold it together!

take the prescription
follow the doctors advice
read the instructions
swallow down these
pills of demise and come on!
feel the pharmaceutical joy
elevate yourself towards the sky
and let yourself go

Choir:
swirling in the breeze
hide among the trees
catch the fallen leaves
sirens in the streets
Jesus died for us
Aphroditus

kaleidoscopic colors underneath the Window
the fear of summer and the silence of the undertow
all our hymns are heathen - heaven is a place on earth
this is my happy face, I'm happy here down in the dirt
so hold it together!!

take the prescription
follow the doctors advice
read the instructions
swallow down these pills of demise
and come on!

take the prescription!
take the prescription!
come on!!
feel the pharmaceutical joy!
feel the pharmaceutical joy!!

credits

released September 29, 2023
Written, arranged and produced by:
Jon Ivar Kollbotn, Lars Christian Bjørknes, Eivind Gammersvik
Recorded at Degaton Studios & Room 114
Mix: Anders Bjelland
Mastering: Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone
Engineering: Eivind Gammersvik, Lars Christian Bjørknes
Additional arrangements: Sondre Veland, Sondre Skollevoll, Øystein Bech-Eriksen, Peri Winkle
Cover design: Martin Kvamme

Lead Vocals/acoustic guitar: Jon Ivar Kollbotn
Vocals/violin: Peri Winkle
Backup vocals/piano: Sondre Skollevoll
Backup vocals/synth/percussion: Lars Christian Bjørknes
Electric guitars: Øystein Bech-Eriksen
Drums: Sondre Veland

Sondre Veland plays Paiste cymbals exclusively

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Major Parkinson Bergen, Norway

Major Parkinson is a particle collider of huge, cinematic melodies, catchy pop hooks, impossible rhythms and psychedelic lyrics. A distinctly different band, with an unconventional, associative and almost irrational approach to the art of writing music.

"Major Parkinson are the Coldplay Cardiacs, with giant commercial songs bent into strange uncommercial shapes" - Prog Magazine
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