Fait(ed)

from Riff City Demons by The Subtanks

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This song has had at least four incarnations of lyrics and three names (Fate, Fait, and Faited), and is important for the role its played in the writers' relationship. It is presented here between its second and third titles as an instrumental, as this recording was done in its second incarnation. The lyrics below are the final version.

It also contains many tributes to Hum, a key influence of the band. See if you can spot them all.

lyrics

(hook)

A casual glance back
toward the earthly curve,
and the oceans fling their gravity
up at the ends of our nerves.
Inversion lights the warnings
on a fuel-propelled machine,
and my dreamboat descends like a dust cloud
but is not a submarine.

(hook)

Racing toward collision,
a muted blue expanse
floods the field of vision
in the roar of the downward trance
absent eyes placid
in a tranquil sun-drenched face
one small point collapsing
bracing for impact's warm embrace

Chorus:

return to a misery
deep down inside of me
behind my face
the horrors confined
I'm treading again
and going nowhere fast
as the tides come up
and pull me in
again

(hook)

A rock unto water;
Walls spiral from the plunge.
The water's high and the blood is hot,
rushing through my lungs.
The taste of the wire's copper
and the smell of the circuits' spark
The core's final explosive light
flashes my shadow and goes dark

Chorus:
return to a misery
deep down inside of me
behind my face
the horrors confined
I'm treading again
and going nowhere fast
as the tides come up
and pull me in
again

There is no deeper meaning
in such murky depths
Nor a greater purpose grasped
between fitful gasps for breath

Weighted down with the stones.
Pulled heavenward toward unmade homes.

(outro)

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from Riff City Demons, released April 8, 2010

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