Blood Capsules

Blood Capsules
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Album	Blood Capsules
Released	April 7, 2015
Length	3:25
Next Track	"Dub Capsules"

Blood Capsules is the A-side to the Blood Capsules single, which came with the pre-ordered deluxe vinyl edition of Beat the Champ. It also appears as the 23rd song on the 2021 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 and 4.

Lyrics[]

When the last of the East Coast money ran dry
And the casually-dressed bill collectors
Started casually dropping on by
And the residuals, but there weren't any more residuals
At least several months behind
On the payments to certain individuals

I strolled into the lobby
Mouth full
Blood capsules
I strolled into the lobby
Mouth full
Blood capsules

I'm off the juice for seven months
I learn to like living clean
But there just isn't any money
On the independent scene
Not even if you're cutting corners
Staying in nights, eating alone
Somebody's gotta pay the gas bill 
It's not gonna go away on its own

I strolled into the lobby
Mouth full
Blood capsules
I strolled into the lobby
Mouth full
Blood capsules

I'm the biggest guy in the bank line
Everybody else looks tiny
I could almost smell the fear
On the lunch-hour car salesman behind me
I know this isn't gonna work
I guess I'll see it when I see it
I can't work any other jobs
This was my last and best idea

I strolled into the lobby
Mouth full
Blood capsules
I strolled into the lobby
Mouth full
Blood capsules

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

"This is our favorite song on the new record. It's not on the new record. It's a song about how sometimes you think 'man, I used to be a wrestler, but now I'm not hot anymore, I gotta rob a bank.' It's called 'Blood Capsules.'" -- 2015-04-23 - Mr. Small's - Millvale, PA
"You have Peter Hughes to thank for [this] song's existence if you like it. Because I wrote it, and I sent it... There's always some where I send them and Peter becomes sort of like their defender because he knows that there's a good chance that I might write a good song and then decide we don't have time for it or whatever; I'm not prioritizing it... Everybody was completely out of gas in the studio, and [Peter] was like 'Can we please try to do that one?', and I was like 'Well, it's not going to be on the album.' And he said, 'But can we just try to do it?' So, we did." -- 2021-02-28 - Jordan Lake Sessions Vol. 4

Things Referenced in this Song[]

Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]

Videos of this Song[]

The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 and 4

Track list: "In the Craters on the Moon" • "Letter from Belgium" • "Woke Up New" • "Pez Dorado" • "Picture of My Dress" • "Whole Wide World" • "Dark in Here" • "Korean Bird Paintings" • "Snow Owl" • "Against Pollution" • "The Last Place I Saw You Alive" • "In Memory of Satan" • "Bell Swamp Connection" • "Rat Queen" • "Shelved" • "Sax Rohmer #1" • "This Year" • "Have to Explode" • "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" • "Until Olympius Returns" • "The Young Thousands" • "Corsican Mastiff Stride" • "Blood Capsules" • "Hair Match" • "Solidarity Forever" • "Soft Targets" • "Black Pear Tree" • "Wolf Count" • "Never Quite Free" • "Wild Sage" • "Jazz No Children" • "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod" • "Exegetic Chains" • "Going Invisible 2"