The song appears in different form on the first ThouShaltNot album, but this is definitely the arrangement I had in mind when I wrote it in the fall of 1995 in Deurne. Its rhythms were specifically inspired by the Cure's "Hanging Garden."
lyrics
Something Dire
I thought I'd gotten over this
Day after day after a hundred years
What good is it now
I tremble to contain
Everything promised and never received
Everyone said that they wouldn't leave
Everything promised and never received
Stop me if I let my tongue spew fire
Kill me if you cannot reach me
Stop me if I'm doing something dire
Kill me if you cannot teach me
I thought I would endure it all
I cannot see what i had wanted then
What have I done
The stains of yesterday
All of the time I was lying down
Backwards and forwards and bleeding sound
All of the time I was lying down
Stop me if I let my tongue spew fire
Kill me if you cannot reach me
Stop me if I'm doing something dire
Kill me if you cannot teach me
But I'll stay again
I can wait some more
I can stay right here for what's in store
I can hold my own
Glowing like a rose
I will stay right here until you go
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I am a queer goth who works in climate. thanks for giving my soul an outlet for all this despair. I too dream of gutting billionaires... and would gladly drown when the flood comes for them. thanks for helping me keep the abyss at bay and stay in the fight. can't thank you enough for this album. alder-knight
Darkwave synth that directly addresses our modern dystopian political environment, with proceeds going to the Voting Rights Project. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2018
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On both Avalanche and the Whirlwind Remix particularly, Seeming manages the seemingly impossible feat of making it sound like there's 2 or 3 different songs going on simultaneously, in the best possible way. Such a huge spacious sound, and immaculate production and songwriting.
Also, I'm pretty sure Leonard Cohen would have heartily approved of this version of "Avalanche". <3 Conor Connolly