From the album New Years Project
Lyrics
The flood of a Goliath pounding on my brain
One out of none leaves a sight to see
With lucid dream made reality
Such a true beautiful blight
A world terminating sight
A goal lost on me
Buried somewhere in a language I don’t comprehend
You are the post-mortem ever-present means to my end
Resurrection gone
My sister in a life beyond the unthinking deep
A goal lost on me
Now we’ve got your God dying to fit inside my head
Bombarding me with every ounce I can take
So significant, the selling of my cause
There’s no preventing it, I’m finishing my charge
To grind my teeth and bow my head, to show humility through the eyes of the dead
Would you risk everything to lose me?
Knowledge staining a whirlpool wake of love
Constant struggle to embed everything with meaning
Knowledge staining the edge of space
Constant struggle left to embrace: a purpose
Reason, a rift, a gift that transcends
Gazing at your world as a child views a zoetrope
As wolves with a collective conscious tear my form limb from limb
Notes
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Wow. What can I say on this song other than it’s my favorite song we’ve ever written? This song really continues in the direction set by Satellite Camera Obscura in terms of mood and style. The song was a true collaboration from beginning to end and it really showed in how well it all flows together. I’d come up with the basis for the intro, chorus, and outro, Axel wrote this beautiful Opeth inspired verse, and Jim comes to the party with a dirty, dissonant Failure riff for a bridge of sorts (where he’s screaming “Now we’ve got your God”). It’s a fairly pretty, melodic song until that part arrives, and Jim makes the part even nastier by adding these dissonant vocal harmonies underneath his screams – FANTASTIC. Immediately before that, I’ve got a solo where one of the cooler improvised things happens in the album. I’d wanted this one specific note at the end of a run to kind of fall off to nowhere, but I don’t have a Floyd Rose style guitar. So, spur of the moment, Axel and I decided he would just grab a string winder and once I hit the note, to unwind my string as fast as possible – and I think it sounds great, you can really hear the string scraping against the string.
All that would be good and well, but then we had our friend Dennis from Casanatra come in and do some guest vocals in the middle and end – and it totally takes the song into the stratosphere. The vocal interplay between Dennis and Jim at the end over a melancholy chord progression that we build the hell out of just kills me. Words can’t express how blown away I was hearing it all together for the first time. Listening to this song totally takes me back to the recording, and the few times we’ve played the song live, and this song and the memories and feelings it gives me are something that I’ll forever be grateful for.
