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Sweet Exhaustion

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

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A song about being trapped and being freed, and then carefully trapping yourself.

Recorded in a dorm room in Amerst, MA

lyrics

Some souls align to a neon sign, and the gas lights up behind their mind.
A red light flash behind their eyes, will seem to answer blind.
Some souls will sigh for centuries, and memory will alter these...
These decades of ten fingers into prayer beads.
And they tell themselves that eveything explained away remains away.
Tell themselves that it’s okay, and nothing’s incomplete.
Tell themselves beyond the fray, that there are reasons left to stay.
And if they taste the world with a grain of salt...that’ll make it sweet.

Sweet Exhaustion...Heat exhaustion.

Some souls will say that suffering is just the price that love can bring.
And every little bird they’ve ever heard inside their minds will start to sing.
Some souls will lie above themselves, and laugh as they discuss the shelves.
These home improvements cheer them for a while, as they decorate their cells.
And when these souls become deferred, they leave without a noise;
Solemn, staid examples of the greatest grace and poise.
These souls begin to shrink upon their backbones, some—without a choice—
Will walk with equal sadness down another neon road...
And some explode.

I don’t want to spend now, I don’t want to end now.
Don’t have a friend now you’ve left me alone.
Just want to sleep now, I don’t want to breathe now...
Feel like I’ve never been out on my own...
And now my soul’s become deferred, I’ve left without a noise...
I was a solemn, staid example of the greatest grace and poise.
I felt my soul shrink upon my backbone, now without a choice,
Will I walk with equal sadness down another neon road?
Or will I explode...

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from Retrospect: '04​-​'10, released December 12, 2010
Ray Kingston: Drums
Jared Adams: Producer, Bass

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