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IX: To the West​!​!

from IX by RENT STRIKE

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Wait, this is the end? Does anything ever end?

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IX - To the West!!

Unsatisfied. Incomplete.
On solid ground. I’m on my feet.
The streetlights call. Call out to me.
They say, ‘Nothing will ever feel that good.’

And in my dreams, it’s in my hand.
But it keeps slipping through the cracks, like grains of sand.
I watch it fall. Fall out of reach.
And nothing will ever feel that good.

So when my eyes start rolling back,
I’ll try to look into my mind but it all looks black.
It fades away. My solid ground.
And nothing will ever feel that good.

Nothing can. And nothing ever should.

So if you go, I understand.
If you want closure, and you can’t find it here,
I will wait forever.

All things. All things come to an end.
I know where I gotta go, but dammit! I want to know when!
So I let it go. I let it go!
I let everything go.
I’m leaving the pain I have claimed as my own.
It sucks, but I’m letting it go.

And after me, the flood can come for all I care.
And you can all go to heaven, or whatever, I won’t be meeting you there.
They will carry me, carry me into the West!
With the aches and the shakes and the sweats.
If the weight of the world still sits on my chest,
Carry me into the West!

credits

from IX, released January 11, 2018
John W - guitar n banjo n vox
Nicole G - bass n harmonies n gang vox
Dakota P - percussion n harmonies n gang vox
Will McP - accordion
Mariette H - help with gang vox

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RENT STRIKE Lansing Charter Township, Michigan

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