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Bogged Down

from Bogged Down EP by Conductors

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This features last years cicadas prominently, no not Brood X, the more down to earth standard cicadas that hang out around Chicago every year. It's another long song from us! Enjoy the tempo shifts!

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I pulled over here
just to rest
I’m still heading towards
that city over the hill

Months pass.
Years pass.
And all I’m left with
is this place

Time flows through
this valley faster than water
and all I’m left with’s
transient life [is some life]

People here
accept it all,
and all I’m left with
are my thoughts

Are there those
so subdued
they have no hope
yet they don’t care?

Are there those
so subdued
all endeavors
are equal to them?

Are there those
so subdued
they’re tranquil
All the time?

Death arrives
slowly
to the doorway
of the mansion
on the peak
of the hill

Took its time
still punctual.
Gradual,
it’s never late.

Death arrives
quickly
here
in the valley
though they never
say it’s early.

Now I’ve become
one of them.
We’re dirty people
takes too much
to clean up

And what’s the difference
in the long run?
And what’s the distance
you can run?
And how much time
does it take?

I pulled over here
just to rest
I’m still heading towards
that city over the hill

Time’s past
time’s gone,
and all I’m left with
is this place

Patience is mine
patience is what
I can judge
others by

People here
accept it all
and still
I can’t stand it

There are those
so subdued
it makes no difference
what’s rewarded

there are those
so subdued
nothing is better
nothing is best

there are those
so subdued
they don’t worry
about a thing

Death
comes to me
easily
everything
mortifies me
then keeps me
living

Death lingers
in the wings,
threatening,
making me wait

There are those
who believe
in peaks
and valleys,
judgments
and achievements,

but not down here
in this poor,
peaceful
community.

Do the people
make the place
Or does the place
make the people?

I’m a stranger here
pollen stains my skin
while they all try
to sell me land
on behalf
of those above
while I wait
to return home

And what’s the difference
in the long run?
And what’s the distance
you can run?
And how much time
does it take?

Waiting
Waiting
Waiting

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from Bogged Down EP, released December 3, 2021
Willy Stastny - Electric Bass Guitar
Julian Senn-Raemont - Drums
William Psilos - Electric Guitar, Vocals

Written by William Psilos

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"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' " ... more

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