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Fate Fades In And Out

by Hello Whirled

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1.
I will not pass the word I will not take this chance I will not break your glass jaw I will not laugh at this mess From your hands, fate fades in and out I will not kick your teeth in I will not poke your eyes out I will not push your buttons I will not tackle this invasion From your hands, I will not take From your hands, I will not give From your hands, I will not die From your hands, I will not live
2.
I can feel the iced wood coldness coming in Shadows in the foliage hit the ground running The ploy in the plastic is not to succeed For nothing’s here you need The shadows are tricks of the light The light is trying to tell you something Come in
3.
Here lies the last day of our lives Though we wouldn't know it at the time I sensed you smiling, clutching an old umbrella Nothing's gonna happen here The rain falls red on a city plagued with seas of blood I heard you crying from the flood The screen exploded and left shrapnel in your skin Nothing's gonna happen here Everyone is drained, dead Everything is stained red The streets were emptied out into neighboring dry counties As docks eroded, walls were built I saw you crying from the top of a lighthouse Nothing's gonna happen here Cars exhumed as racers bled down the highway Stayers wore 3D glasses to maintain an illusion I felt you flying from the wreckage of the heart
4.
Memories are burned and used as tinder for the flame For losers of the living game Chained to borders and surrounded by red walls For trying not to fit the same If I cared a little more There’d be puddles on that floor Blameless and nameless, bored and faceless, traction towards the light Who came in to say good night? Close to an entropic revelation But resolution isn’t worth the fight I won’t play the living game I belong with the flame Please stop asking for my shame

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Demos recorded by Ben in his bedroom.

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released May 5, 2023

As HW was working on album 45 (not completed at the time of writing), I got antsy and decided to try something again. In March, I released a late-2022 experiment called FUCK YOUR PROCESS THROW YOUR LIFE AT A WALL. It was okay, had a few great songs, but I thought I could do better. I found myself recording 30 demos in two weeks, after which point I axed some, kept others, and altered more. When I had a complete idea for some of the songs, I got my Yamaha MT8X and started recording. I knew I could make something great on tape.

The tape had other ideas. It decided that playing at a consistent speed was a thing of the past and instead ran at varying speeds without my control, both speeding up AND slowing down recordings past the point where I could overdub anything over it. So, in defeat, I decided to start over. One batch of recordings had been finished, and another batch had just entered the "record for album" stage.

Anyway, you'll hear the results of that in August or so. For now, here are my 4 favorite of the 8-track recordings, all from the first tape (or technically the 3rd tape). You will hear nicer versions of this later.

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Song count: 1447.

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