Begin Again, released on 7 Dec 2024, starting now through Feb, we’ll be hosting “About the song” and Lyrics to one song a week from the record. Also on Mastodon
About the Song “Begin Again” — Track 2 from Begin Again
This is hard to write about. It was not meant to be the title track to the record. Was not even meant to be on the record, but we were lacking a certain voice, and this filled it. Though it is steeped in an acceptance of some kind of failure – mistakes were made – it is and always has been hiding the message, for all my petty truths, and all our healing wounds. By myself, thoughts like spinning wheels, I will simultaneously believe I was right in everything and yet failed. None of that matters. Together, we heal. So even those ones I loved who cast me aside, the invitation from the last song extends to you as well, lets begin again. Empty hands show vulnerability, nothing hiding, no ulterior motives.
Lyrics to Begin Again
slowed to first gear
a slowly listening ear
after so long with too much to say
now words silent on every page
oh how I feel estranged
from one last look at this decay
once again ive tried and failed
now I have to leave to fight another day
(after all the plans we made)
and now we'll never know
(this ending, this ending)
but what we've reaped we have sown
(is where to begin)
the next chapter's unknown
this morning's
so worthy
of sleep everlasting...
these are not my hands,
they're just my eyes
please understand
this plan was not mine
cast aside by ones I love
shattered but i will rise above
for all my petty truths
and all our healing wounds
accept that all things end
let mistakes be chances to learn again
grasping truths and letting go
empty hands that slowly show