Hi all,
So the purpose of this post is twofold. One, I want to post the lyrics to the song that will appear on the Tornavalanche split 7" that is coming out... eventually. Two, I want answer the question posed to me recently by a classmate, referenced in the subject line.
1st) "Everything Explicit". We wrote this tune in some form or another probably about 2 years ago and played all across the US this past summer. However, it didn't really have words until fairly recently. Not to discourage individual interpretations, I'll keep my explanation brief and vague: the problem with getting closure after someone is gone is that the words and ideas in your head that you wanted the departed to receive will never get to where you need them to be to accomplish what you need of them. It's like electricity; if the connection is broken, there can be no flow.
EVERYTHING EXPLICIT
What's best left unsaid?
A speaker spent, a listener left with regrets in his stead.
In a life of loss, silence can cost you more than you expect.
Held tongues relate a bitter taste when prone to reminisce.
Anamnestic; recipient absent, the circuit's dead.
We live these linear lives unidirectional, towards an inevitable end.
We must make everything explicit.
Thats how we left it: unsaid.
Im at a loss for words.
2nd) So what's up with Off Minor. Unfortunately, not a whole lot. We had summer tour plans to go to Australia that I personally had to tank because of an extremely crucial, 10-hour long, future-determining medical liscensing exam I have to take before the end of June. Fucking it up will guarantee I will only work in the hottest, loudest and smelliest hospitals in countries that Noam Chomsky writes books about, lancing taut, throbbing abscesses on the grundles of convicted war criminals. But we're still in it. The split 7" with Tornavalanche is almost done, it's release is imminent. We may even play a show or two before 2006 is through. Anyone booking any shows anywhere on Earth, please write us and ask if we can do it. I can tell you right now that we can't; Steve's recording every band in Philadelphia that day, Kevin has another 9,863,453,987 pages to write for his senior project and I'm pretty sure that I'm on-call that night and every other night for the next six years. But we really do appreciate the acknowledgement that we still exist and that you love us.
- Jamie