Song for Hewitt Best (From the Deck of the Breath Star II)
from Immune To Consequences by Walrus Promenade
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Hewitt Best was a proficient base stealer with a very high "anticapitalism" stat, so we imagined him being a big old communist. This made it especially, cruelly poignant when he was first incinerated and then, in the middle of an all-star game, "Preserved" (generally thought of as being turned into gold) and placed in the Vault so that replicas of him could be sold in later seasons.
In the last season of the Expansion Era, the Breath Mints — the whole team — were incinerated and replaced with a new team, the Oxford Paws. At the end of the era, teams, including deceased ones, had to sail to one of three locations (the Vault, the Hall of Flame, or the Desert) in order to avoid getting nullified by a black hole. The Breath Mints made it to the Vault with one day to spare. I imagine this song being sung by the newly deceased Breath Mints while they sailed.
Uncharacteristically for me, I played through each track of this song in one take rather than comping together different takes to get something cleaner.
Inspired in part by this piece by Immune To Consequences's cover artist: www.tumblr.com/numbersdoesart/679717562177781760
In the last season of the Expansion Era, the Breath Mints — the whole team — were incinerated and replaced with a new team, the Oxford Paws. At the end of the era, teams, including deceased ones, had to sail to one of three locations (the Vault, the Hall of Flame, or the Desert) in order to avoid getting nullified by a black hole. The Breath Mints made it to the Vault with one day to spare. I imagine this song being sung by the newly deceased Breath Mints while they sailed.
Uncharacteristically for me, I played through each track of this song in one take rather than comping together different takes to get something cleaner.
Inspired in part by this piece by Immune To Consequences's cover artist: www.tumblr.com/numbersdoesart/679717562177781760
lyrics
Don't put me on a pedestal;
give me vision, dental and medical.
And give them to my teammates too,
after all we've done for you!
Don't turn me into gold;
let me die when I get old.
Let me get old in the first place,
and then disappear without a trace.
We don't have to do this anymore!
But what the hell else is there to do?
We're no fools, yeah, we all know the score.
But that doesn't mean we have to take this from you.
You pay us less than we deserve,
then you kick us to the curb
when you think we're not enough for you —
or just because you wanted to!
You mess us all around
'till you put us in the ground,
but even then you're still not done —
you call us back for some more fun!
So you won't let us live, and you won't let us go.
The wisest and the kindest of the Breath Mints warned us so,
so then you killed him and threw him in the vault.
And now you want to say it's not your fault!
We laughed it off when Hewitt tried to organize us,
but we're not laughing now.
'Cause we're all dead, so now nothing can surprise us.
We're on our way to take you down somehow.
We're gonna kill a god, or maybe two or three!
Tell you what, we'll just keep killing gods until we're free!
And when the formless void has swallowed every last decree,
we'll find the vault and be the union Hewitt always said that we could be!
give me vision, dental and medical.
And give them to my teammates too,
after all we've done for you!
Don't turn me into gold;
let me die when I get old.
Let me get old in the first place,
and then disappear without a trace.
We don't have to do this anymore!
But what the hell else is there to do?
We're no fools, yeah, we all know the score.
But that doesn't mean we have to take this from you.
You pay us less than we deserve,
then you kick us to the curb
when you think we're not enough for you —
or just because you wanted to!
You mess us all around
'till you put us in the ground,
but even then you're still not done —
you call us back for some more fun!
So you won't let us live, and you won't let us go.
The wisest and the kindest of the Breath Mints warned us so,
so then you killed him and threw him in the vault.
And now you want to say it's not your fault!
We laughed it off when Hewitt tried to organize us,
but we're not laughing now.
'Cause we're all dead, so now nothing can surprise us.
We're on our way to take you down somehow.
We're gonna kill a god, or maybe two or three!
Tell you what, we'll just keep killing gods until we're free!
And when the formless void has swallowed every last decree,
we'll find the vault and be the union Hewitt always said that we could be!
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from Immune To Consequences,
released November 5, 2022
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