Lyrics
A likeness unbearable of imaging
A sunset recently forgotten — ignored, or never seen?
You take life away from me —
But it’s only passing fantasy
Visible this reproduction
A lesson never learned
Refusing action — manifest
Content in looking on
Enterprise to exploit lies
That once were dreams
Delusion bent to pacify
Hopes in idol scenes
This vivid reality —
Merely drawing your passivity
Secession of liberation
Captured in your TV
Erotic Fiction — disinfects
The risk of reasoning
Disincline those longing
Eyes that once held dreams
Now flood with idol scenes
Reminiscent of the deepest hue
[of] An eye unfit for objective view
Expectation failing through a quiet aspiration
Expectation failing through the image of profession
Expectation failing through a trifling of confession
Your Life as passing fantasy
Notes
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On this song, we took the opening chord progression and used it as the starting point for almost every part in the rest of the song. Sometimes it’s fairly obvious, like the riff preceding the chorus/main chord progression, and sometimes it’s a bit more subtle, like the riff that begins halfway through the song when the tempo changes, and the riff just before the ending. I’ve gone back and forth on this song quite a bit over the years – sometimes I really like listening to it and wish we still played it, other times I wonder how it ever made it to “tape”, metaphorically speaking. I have sort of a love/hate relationship with most of our songs, and this one is no different. One of our running band jokes is that I’ll love a song up until it’s a couple months old and then I don’t care about it anymore. However, it does typically go in cycles, so after I hate a song for a couple years, I’ll revisit it and wonder why I didn’t like it…but my brain is just hardwired to be continually seeking the next awesome riff, and it’s tough for me to listen to old songs when I know our best material is continually right around the corner.
