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New South Burn

from The Pause by Pursesnatchers

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It’s 33 & 1/3 driver 8, then equal parts gardening at night, rockville, harborcoat, sitting still, passion, so central. Maybe a splash of one I love/I believe/these days, but really just going for the first 3 albums + chronic town gestalt. Eponymous. Written and recorded May 1-4, 2020

lyrics

Tell me who to believe
In the morning when I’m doing the math on when to flee the scene
Trading safety for speed
Like a plague of locusts you’ve got numbers on your side
Now it’s time to e-a-t

A century etc

I saw God in the trees
On a Greyhound pointed south towards the corrugated sea
Disassociating
The trestles of the bridge were choked with kudzu vines
Climbing up everything

A century etc.

Someone put a beach boys record on
And the kitchen sang with ancient harmonies
Empty all the secrets from your mind
Like so many red-winged blackbirds on the wing

Tell me who you believe
In the morning when I’m doing the math on when to split the scene
Trading safety for speed
Like a plague of locusts you’ve got numbers on your side
Climbing up everything

Someone put a beach boys record on
And the kitchen sang in four-part harmony
Raccoons are descending from their nests
Like so many red-winged blackbirds on the wing

As old as soldiery
The soldered hills where current flows
Connecting all our bodies to the breeze

I’ve got tears enough for both
I’m not breathing down your throat again
Reading rooms and cleaning magazines

credits

from The Pause, released June 17, 2020
Drums from 'Driver 8' and 'Radio Free Europe,' by R.E.M.

A bunch of lines (I don't remember which) lifted from Ben Lerner's 'The Media,' from the April 13, 2020 issue of The New Yorker.

Master reference track: 'Driver 8,' R.E.M. Obvs.

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