Three Exhortations
from About Faces by Walrus Promenade
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lyrics
- 1-
Come on now you cave dweller, don't be embarrassed—
as you sit there with dreams getting more and more garish—
until they collapse under the weight of your hefty ambition,
and the Muses say "chalk up another one!"
Come on now, don't sit there and hope for miraculous fate.
(There is no such thing as a legacy now.)
Just get out your pen and scratch something down before it's too late.
(We all just prepare for our time in the ground.)
The sun is setting, (Make your peace with the void.)
the hours are slinking away; (It's nothing that you can avoid, but still...)
you need something to show at the end of the day.
- 2 -
Tie me to the mast!
Don’t know how long I’ll last against this song!
I got a good thing going,
But I ain’t slowing till it feels wrong!
It doesn’t feel wrong yet!
I bet the problem’s that it feels real right!
So I won’t plug my ears, not now, not here...
Don’t let me go without a fight!
I hear that sweet voice now!
I made my choice now let me make it good!
If I could snap these cords and sink into those words, you know I would!
- 3 -
Unconditional trust: what does that even mean?
World of the living or bust, I’ve always felt in between.
I pull you out of the ground, feels like the other way round.
Who’s saving who here? I’ve got a new fear:
Are you really gonna follow me out of this?
You transmute me like an alchemist
but I still got a tin ear.
Your steps quiet down a bit.
I don’t like the sound of it...
but if I turn around you might decide to stay in here!
I need to believe that you’re coming after me.
Need you to free me from a life of apathy.
You taught me things that matter, even recharge my battery
when I need a jumpstart; beep boop, what heart?
Some smart guys can have a really dumb part.
And that’s me and my emotional cluelessness.
You could quit at any moment, I know it, and that’s the truth of it.
You got your song and all I can do is to get in tune with it
and not let my stupid suspicion ruin it.
I mean, what am I even trying to do with it?
Catch you in a lie like a barrel of lutefisk?
You’re a straight shooter and it’s not like we’re new to this.
If something is fishy you’ll tell me where the barracuda is.
I’m working on rewriting this ending.
I know enlightenment’s pending,
and I’ll be fighting defending our mending.
Depending on what kind of life that attempting,
I got the diamonds for spending,
so let’s keep trying again and again and again and again and..
Come on now you cave dweller, don't be embarrassed—
as you sit there with dreams getting more and more garish—
until they collapse under the weight of your hefty ambition,
and the Muses say "chalk up another one!"
Come on now, don't sit there and hope for miraculous fate.
(There is no such thing as a legacy now.)
Just get out your pen and scratch something down before it's too late.
(We all just prepare for our time in the ground.)
The sun is setting, (Make your peace with the void.)
the hours are slinking away; (It's nothing that you can avoid, but still...)
you need something to show at the end of the day.
- 2 -
Tie me to the mast!
Don’t know how long I’ll last against this song!
I got a good thing going,
But I ain’t slowing till it feels wrong!
It doesn’t feel wrong yet!
I bet the problem’s that it feels real right!
So I won’t plug my ears, not now, not here...
Don’t let me go without a fight!
I hear that sweet voice now!
I made my choice now let me make it good!
If I could snap these cords and sink into those words, you know I would!
- 3 -
Unconditional trust: what does that even mean?
World of the living or bust, I’ve always felt in between.
I pull you out of the ground, feels like the other way round.
Who’s saving who here? I’ve got a new fear:
Are you really gonna follow me out of this?
You transmute me like an alchemist
but I still got a tin ear.
Your steps quiet down a bit.
I don’t like the sound of it...
but if I turn around you might decide to stay in here!
I need to believe that you’re coming after me.
Need you to free me from a life of apathy.
You taught me things that matter, even recharge my battery
when I need a jumpstart; beep boop, what heart?
Some smart guys can have a really dumb part.
And that’s me and my emotional cluelessness.
You could quit at any moment, I know it, and that’s the truth of it.
You got your song and all I can do is to get in tune with it
and not let my stupid suspicion ruin it.
I mean, what am I even trying to do with it?
Catch you in a lie like a barrel of lutefisk?
You’re a straight shooter and it’s not like we’re new to this.
If something is fishy you’ll tell me where the barracuda is.
I’m working on rewriting this ending.
I know enlightenment’s pending,
and I’ll be fighting defending our mending.
Depending on what kind of life that attempting,
I got the diamonds for spending,
so let’s keep trying again and again and again and again and..
credits
from About Faces,
released April 4, 2019
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