It’s a matter of time, it’s a question of spirit
You said your heart’s full of ghosts, well baby whose isn’t
Now you’re playing for grace, and those shades of yourself you offer
Up to replace the things that you feel you shouldn’t feel
Now baby, how does it feel?
Got your species of truth, got the things you call freedom
All the ideas you convince yourself you believe in,
Now you’re chasing the whispers, and the kiss that you say you’re promised
Ain’t you convincing everybody but yourself
Oh honey it can’t be helped.
How we become the stories that we tell
Round, round, round
You said that it spins you around - and away you go
Said you want it
Now, now, now
Now that you got, ah hey what are you gonna’ do?
It’s that lack of direction, it’s that sense that you’re drifting,
It’s not drawing the line between bad luck and self-pity
So ask yourself why? And pretend you don’t know the answer
It’s the ways that you hide and the ways that want to be found
Oh that dream that you’re dreaming right now,
It’s so easy, it’s easy when you know how.
Round, round, round
You said that it spins you around - and away you go
Said you want it
Now, now, now
Now that you got, ah hey what are you gonna’ do?
Time after time, Time after time
You’d think we’d learn, but you know just how it goes
Night after night, Night after night
You gotta’ tear it up and burn it down oh
Round, round, round
You said that it spins you around - and away you go
Said you want it Now, now, now
Now that you got, ah hey what are you gonna’ do?
If you got that Love, love, love
It ain’t a matter of choice no more these days
Said you want it Now, now, now
Now that you got it, oh hey you got to make it pay
The sound could be described as indie-gospel: uplifting, euphoric, poetic, catchy as hell - this band is something special.
Some references might be Pavement, Nick Cave, The Staple Singers, Arcade Fire, The Velvet Underground, and Otis Redding.
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