"English eyes / English eyes / Whatever you want this to be / It will be..."
The unrevealed happenings but beautiful bloodletting of "English Eyes" by Providence Rhode Island guitar driven folk / indie rock outfit Ugly Moon, founded by brothers Mike and Matt Mowry with bassist Johnny McMahon and drummer Ian McMillan, seeps into your head and heart like a magnetic film trailer. The Mowry's and creative cohorts keep it raw and offer glimpses into the human condition, tossing out morsels of pain and maybe even hard stiff drinks of hope. Sometimes I want songs to tell the whole story but sometimes, like this track, just peering through the blinds before they are aggressively shut is more powerful because those with curious minds fill in the blanks with their own struggles.
In the end "English Eyes" feels like a lot of things, a eulogy, a drinking song, the final song of a show, a tear jerker or that stiff drink or maybe like if Robert Frost wrote bruised up indie rock songs with a punk heart.
-Robb Donker Curtius
LYRICS
English eyes
English eyes
Whatever you want this to be
It will be
Air supply
Running dry
Whenever you want me to breathe
I will breathe
Aaah
LYRICS
English eyes
English eyes
Whatever you want this to be
It will be
Air supply
Running dry
Whenever you want me to breathe
I will breathe
Aaah
aaah, aaah, aaah, laah, laah, lah,
So please, oh please
Save me, I bleed
Woe, my Eileen
Where's my Eileen
Come on, morphine
From acorns to ashes to nowhere to salt the blue sea
From half dead and twitching, a ghost where the rest used to be
So, I went to tell them a joke but the truth got obscene
It would crack up the band, but the humor well… it wasn't for me
So please, oh please
I sleep, I bleed
Woe, my Eileen
Where's my Eileen
Come on, morphine
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
https://www.instagram.com/ugly.moon.music
https://uglymoonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ugly-moon
So please, oh please
Save me, I bleed
Woe, my Eileen
Where's my Eileen
Come on, morphine
From acorns to ashes to nowhere to salt the blue sea
From half dead and twitching, a ghost where the rest used to be
So, I went to tell them a joke but the truth got obscene
It would crack up the band, but the humor well… it wasn't for me
So please, oh please
I sleep, I bleed
Woe, my Eileen
Where's my Eileen
Come on, morphine
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/ugly.moon.music
https://uglymoonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ugly-moon
Ugly Moon is the musical project of songwriting brothers Matt & Mike Mowry, bassist Johnny McMahon, and drummer Ian McMillan. Known for delivering heavy, driven folk and indie rock with a raw, emotional core. Their sound is both retrospective and poignant, weaving between tender, contemplative melodies and aggressive, unfiltered intensity. Ugly Moon crafts songs that feel deeply personal yet universally resonant.
Ugly Moon, folk, dark folk, indie rock, folk punk, storytelling, songs about the human struggle, poetic lyrics, poetic license, songwriting brothers Matt and Mike Mowry, Providence Rhode Island, "English Eyes", emo,
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