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Let's Be Spent

from Retrospect: '04​-​'10 by Ari Jacobson

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A ska feel on this one...eventually I'd like to record it with a horn section playing the riff instead of harmonized guitar.

Recorded in Staunton, VA

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I know what I’ve tasted, I know what I’ve seen.
I know where I’m going, I’ll find where I’ve been.
Let the day be not wasted, let’s know what it meant.
And when the night falls, let’s be spent.

I look to their troubles, I look to their sins.
I look to their heartaches, I look to their grins.
Let the day be not wasted, let’s go where we’re sent.
And when the night falls, let’s be spent.

Let’s be spent, let’s be done with this unchanging sight.
We repent every one of *our shaded diversions.*
Contentment is fun for a year and a night,
But resentment will run and make off with your life, let’s be spent.

I answered with questions, I questioned my thought.
I thought I was learning, I learned what I taught.
Let the day be not wasted, we’re broke and we’re bent,
But when the night falls, let’s be spent.

I shattered a myth and I crumbled a coin-operated
Respect but someday I’ll re-join
When the day is not wasted we’ll re-represent
And when the night falls, let’s be spent.

I remember the time when I first lost my mind,
An attack of sublime or a chronic excursion.
So tactful, so timely, to breathe now would blind me,
A knack for the rhyme in my rhythm you find me...

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from Retrospect: '04​-​'10, released December 12, 2010

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