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lyrics
Coming from an earthquake town, you hear a lot about buildings
I think about it more than I maybe should
Now they’re putting up a plastic palace right across the road
I’ve got less patience for this than I thought I would
I’m out of step, look to the left as it turns
(Can’t get it, can’t get it right)
Kingdom of sand, you’ll salt the land on all four sides
(Hearts beating in 6/8 time)
Lifted up on fraying wires
Glass foundations, paper tigers
For almost my entire adult life (so far)
It’s getting late, I’m getting older
Holding out for hope just feels like treading water
Waiting for a train that’s never gonna come
Kia kaha, resilience, compromising on permanence
Eleven years to cover up the sun
Shadows shroud the yard at 238
Within an inch of what they’ll regulate
(We’ll stay up late, discuss what might come next)
This edifice of paper fold, it shines like new and groans like old (Wondering where the coin might come to rest)
Where some young family might move in
Stop-gap for something permanent
(Flipped a dozen times, what could go wrong?)
This is your new northern skyline
Reminders of familiar decline
(Watch them tear it down before too long )
credits
released May 19, 2023
Additional vocals by Carb on Carb
Recorded and Mixed by Steven Marr at Roundhead Studios
Mastered by Chris Chetland at Kog Studio
Artwork by Maisie Norcross
Subsonic Eye combines math rock, dream pop, and guitar sounds borrowed from post-rock for songs that whirl and flurry, but never quite settle. Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 15, 2023