Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod
Lyrics
You are sleeping off your demons
When I come home
Spittle bubbling on your lips
Fine white foam
I am young and I am good.
It's a hot southern California day
If I wake you up, there will be hell to pay
And alone in my room,
I am the last of a lost civilization
And I vanish into the dark
And rise above my station
Rise above my station
But I do wake you up, and when I do
You blaze down the hall and you scream
I'm in my room with the headphones on
Deep in the dream chamber
And then I'm awake and I'm guarding my face
Hoping you don't break my stereo
Because it's the one thing that I couldn't live without
And so I think about that and then I sorta black out
Held under these smothering waves
By your strong and thick veined hand
But one of these days I'm going to wriggle up on dry land
Banter
- This is a true story about how you learn what things you want to protect from a catastrophe that happens every four or five days. (2012-05-06)
- This is a song about what it means to have music when you really, really, really, really, really, really need music to have. Cause I think, I think it’s a thing that people, uh, I mean I don’t know, I feel like musicians get blasé or they stop talking about it but it’s like the reason you wind up standing where we’re standing is that music has in some way really saved your life. Not metaphorically speaking, not, you know, saved my life insofar as it made me feel better, you mean that it stood between you and the yawning void that threatened to swallow you whole. Right? Which was routinely the case for me when I was 14 which is what this song is about it’s called Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod. (2012-12-13)
- There is an old friend in this room who knew me at the time documented in this song. So this is for you. (2023-10-07 Ace of Spades)
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