Defibrillation (feat. Lucius)

from Queens of the Breakers by The Barr Brothers

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Inspired by the uncomfortable experience of sitting in an emergency room on Christmas night listening to two EKG machines beating slightly out of sync with each other. Early working title was "Bruce Springsteen's Cardiac Escape Plan". Jess and Holly from Lucius lend their intoxicating voices to this one, sending the bridge into the stratosphere. This is the only song Andrew and I have ever written together over email. - Brad Barr

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Draw the line, draw it again
I only lie to my closest friends
Straight as an arrow, but that depends
You hit the road and the road bends
I have no quarrels, no enemies
I know my failure is my expertise
The righteous gamin of '82
You came to me but I was born to you

Where would you wander, what would it mean
There might be saviors but no guarantees
When we needed something kind of like love
We fell together, I guess, just because
Oh my friend Sorrow, you are relieved
I no longer need your company
And what's stuck in my throat is a mystery
And what it is is a heartbreaking, soul shaking
Overwhelming undertaking
Hit me once again

I knew your mother, she was my friend
It's only love to her I do extend
When I fell under, sometimes nightly
She was the branch to which I held on tightly
Tried my stable of remedies
I know its harder to see the light when you're on your knees
Had a map, borrowed a car
North Colorado via Arkansas

Island to island, breaking my silence
I'm hemmed in water
Quelling the violence behind my eyelids
I close and open
Something inside you is bending like I do
Its like that feckless song

Down the road if you should find
Some box of clues that I left behind
I just thought I'd save you some time
Straighten it out here and make it rhyme
Its not in my nature to pretend
That any one road leads to any one end
And maybe victory's too heavy for arms like these
And freedom's too loaded when you speak of destinies
You just try to see the thing for what it is
And what it is is a heartbreaking, soul shaking
Overwhelming exhalation
Hit me once again

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from Queens of the Breakers, track released October 13, 2017

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