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When We Drown

by Das Binky

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1.
Zeno's Paradox 03:13
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VERSE Our love is constantly in motion But it never seems to be moving anywhere When I see the space between us I divide it infinitely But I'm a finite man I can't travel across an infinity of subdivisible points PRECHORUS I realize that it's only a philosophical problem But I've made it manifest in my heart CHORUS Every day I move a little bit closer Waiting for you to call me to come over I show you what I am by what I'm not It's in the logic that I get caught Our lives are ruled by Zeno's paradox VERSE I define myself as moving closer to you But at a given snapshot in space and time, I am motionless But you can see me coming, though at each fixed point I'm still Somehow I'm logically disproving the possibly of motion PRECHORUS And this may only be a philosophical problem But it's what I'm feeling here in my heart CHORUS Every day I move a little bit closer Waiting for you to call me to come over I show you what I am by what I'm not It's in the logic that I get caught Our lives are ruled by Zeno's paradox BRIDGE Before I get to you I need to get halfway there But before I'm halfway there, I need to get a quarter way there Before I'm a quarter way there I need to get a eighth way there And so it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on... PRECHORUS And this may only be a philosophical problem But it's what I'm feeling here in my heart CHORUS Every day I move a little bit closer Waiting for you to call me to come over I show you what I am by what I'm not It's in the logic that I get caught Our lives are ruled by Zeno's paradox
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Cadence 03:54
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VERSE Looking at each other Like we know each other Knowing the part each other Wants to blame Setting fire to the Parts of us that were On fire and are Now inflamed CHORUS Focus deeply on the cadence of the way you tell me That our walls are coming down Deeper rhythms guide the Spaces in between the times We swim and when we drown VERSE Endless hours spent in Endless conversations Knowing how this all would end Raise a glass to all the Walls we raised and shattered Walls we'll build and raze again CHORUS Focus deeply on the cadence of the way you tell me That our walls are coming down Deeper rhythms guide the Spaces in between the times We swim and when we drown BRIDGE I never figured out just what it was I wanted When we started out together on this ride And after all this time the only thing I'm hoping Is together that we'll make it out alive HALF VERSE The clock is striking midnight The hour's close at hand And that's all you'll get from me CHORUS Focus deeply on the cadence of the way you tell me That our walls are coming down Deeper rhythms guide the Spaces in between the times We swim and when we drown
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Bridges 04:06
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VERSE Inside of these poses lies a truth Rivers carved out in our youth PRECHORUS You can't see them anymore I know what to look for CHORUS Bridges between now and then Lead us between why and when The bridges they burn VERSE Stand on the shoreline, watch you drown A Raven Ophelia sinking down PRECHORUS Holding your gaze as it goes dim Both of us knowing you can swim CHORUS Bridges between now and then Lead us between why and when The bridges they burn The bridges they burn The bridges they burn
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Stain 03:26
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VERSE Fourteen hours and maybe six years ago I overthrew the truth You saw me coming, you encouraged the flow Together we moved so smooth PRECHORUS Not now, there's nothing but friction These days I have other addictions CHORUS You may have figured out by now that I'm broken And I walked away but you remained And I think of you when I think about the mess that I've become I spilled the wine but you wear the stain VERSE Severed lipstick, painted runes on my guitar Among the signs that you were here Empty seat beside me at an empty bar Close my eyes and I disappear PRECHORUS Another day, another year, I don't count anymore Wondering if it was you that I was looking for CHORUS You may have figured out by now that I'm broken And I walked away but you remained And I think of you when I think about the mess that I've become I spilled the wine but you wear the stain PRECHORUS Other lights are circling around your star I've stopped thinking I'll ever know who you are CHORUS You may have figured out by now that I'm broken And I walked away but you remained And I think of you when I think about the mess that I've become I spilled the wine but you I spilled the wine but you I spilled the wine but you wear the stain
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Tapestry 04:32
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VERSE All of the colors and all the shapes Swirl in a tempest around me Fillings in edges, escaping through cracks Making another inquiry PRECHORUS Opening windows Wrapping round lives Spiraling into a shape CHORUS It's only through your eyes I see the rich tapestry woven inside Out to the corners and all through this life Reflecting itself in your eyes VERSE Deepening focus, enhancing the lines Spreading out over the boundaries Touching the meanings, revealing the truths Affecting the rhythms profoundly PRECHORUS Sit on the doorstep Awaiting the time Uprooting all of the fear CHORUS It's only through your eyes I see the rich tapestry woven inside Out to the corners and all through this life Reflecting itself in your eyes VERSE Exploring the margins, undoing the seams Unraveling all that's behind PRECHORUS Trapped in the open Expanding the cage Delivering all that was asked CHORUS It's only through your eyes I see the rich tapestry woven inside Out to the corners and all through this life Reflecting itself in your eyes
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Coast of Nebraska 04:09
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VERSE We'll go swimming off the coast of Nebraska We'll make love in the snowy Philippines We'll eat dinner atop mountains on Atlantis You'll love the authentic Atlantean cuisine CHORUS I only want to take you places we can never go I only want to be seen with you by people we can never know Our love is impossible, it just can't exist But while we're here, let's forget about that, just look out the window and let's enjoy the scenery VERSE Let's go dancing on the surface of Mars Catch a movie in Brigadoon Here, my dear, and nowhere else, my love for you is true I'll shout it from the Dark Side of the Moon CHORUS I only want to take you places we can never go I only want to be seen with you by people we can never know Our love is impossible, it just can't exist But while we're here, let's forget about that, and let me you why BRIDGE Somewhere, somehow Anytime but now We're on vacation from reality I think I wanna go home VERSE We'll sip cocktails on the Great Wall of China Re-enact Waterloo And we'll keep grasping at whatever's left to grab on And keep faking our "I love you"s CHORUS I only wanted to take you places we could never go I only wanted to be seen with you by people we could never know Our love was impossible, it just couldn't exist But it was beautiful and magical and a nightmare of color and light VERSE We went swimming off the coast of Nebraska We made love in the snowy Philippines
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Plural of Me 04:04
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VERSE Visions of her spread out across the pale morning sky filled with Colorful tapestries ripe with all that I could capture As we sat alone on the edges of oceans just hoping that nothing was real PRECHORUS There's more to the both of us than we ever let the other see in the light of day CHORUS She was the plural of me and I made her go into her own private world Without her I'm rooted here, Blissfully free Of what I'll never know VERSE My hairs have been graying, my vision is failing but some things I'll never unsee Not things I that treasure or things that I cling to, but things that define all that I'll never be PRECHORUS Secrets and lies and the failings I leave in my wake as I float through the waves CHORUS She was the plural of me and I made her go into her own private world Without her I'm rooted here, Blissfully free Of what I'll never know VERSE / BRIDGE Imagining her life as she makes her way though the world living all of the Dreams that I had for her while I stand wondering if I had done something to save Her from herself that those dreams would blossom into a life it seems that I'll never see CHORUS She was the plural of me and I made her go into her own private world Without her I'm rooted here, Blissfully free Of what I'll never know Of what I'll never know Of what I'll never know
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The Revisionist 04:12
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Leading, Sculpting, Opening Wide Chalk Line Drawings always lied Revelatory, Marrow deep Mandatory, Secrets keep PRECHORUS I never believed a word you said I never believed a word you said VERSE Exercises, Reality Shady Prizes, Mortality Execution, Falling Down Evolution, Run aground PRECHORUS I never believed a word you said And now you tell me that CHORUS I am the one who will learn to tell the story I am the one who will own the story PRECHORUS I never believed a word you said And now you tell me that PRECHORUS I am the one who will learn to tell the story I am the one who will own the story VERSE Deep convictions, Solitude Creating fictions, Fate renewed
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Tired 04:17
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VERSE Alarm goes off at 6 o'clock and I just lie in bed Shut my eyes and push this hangover out of my head Kids will miss the bus unless I kick them out the door Why is everything in life just such a fucking chore? Moldy food and unpaid bills are piled on table TV's blasting static, looks like they cut off the cable Water heater's broken, looks like I won't get a shower How can anybody function at this motherfucking hour? PRECHORUS Chug my coffee, start my car, and pray that it will drive Once the caffeine kicks in, it reminds me I'm alive, but CHORUS Oh my god I tell you I'm so fucking tired I'm so fucking tired, I'm so fucking tired I know I'm whining but Oh my god I tell you I'm so fucking tired And Jesus Christ it's only Monday VERSE Accident on the interstate and I'm running out of gas Some dickhead bastard cuts me off, he can kiss my fucking ass Punch the clock at 8:15 for a job I don't understand Life is pretty shitty when you're working for the man PRECHORUS I'm broke, my wife left, I'm getting fat, l guess I'm pretty numb These are first world problems, I know everybody's got some and CHORUS Oh my god I tell you I'm so fucking tired I'm so fucking tired, I'm so fucking tired I know I'm whining but Oh my god I tell you I'm so fucking tired And Jesus Christ it's only Monday BRIDGE 40 years of experience and all that I can say Is whatever life can give you, it can take it all away Life beats the shit out of you Sing it with me now Life beats the shit out of you… guitar! VERSE Clock out, drive home to the bar, the place where I fit in My misery gets easier with every slug of gin I make it home, blackout drunk, sit in my bed and cry My alarm goes off at 6 and I wish I would fucking die PRECHORUS Somehow I'll get my ass up and do like I'm fucking told Fighting back is futile and I feel so fucking old Oh my god I tell you I'm so fucking tired I'm so fucking tired, I'm so fucking tired I know I'm whining but Oh my god I tell you I'm so fucking tired And Jesus Christ it's only Yeah Jesus Christ it's only Jesus Christ it's only Monday
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Let's Burn the White House Down 03:22
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VERSE Sometimes I feel like overthrowing the government Not for any reason other than disturbing the status quo CHORUS Let's burn the White House down Let's burn the White House down I don't really care just who is living there Let's burn the White House down VERSE Every generation needs its own revolution And frankly ours is long overdue CHORUS Let's burn the White House down Let's burn the White House down I don't really care just who is living there Let's burn the White House down VERSE Dismantle the crypto-fascist military industrial complex The American Experiment has failed for the last time CHORUS Let's burn the White House down Let's burn the White House down I don't really care just who is living there Let's burn the White House down BRIDGE I don't have an alternative I don't know how to run a country All I know is how to destroy And that may be enough for me CHORUS Let's burn the White House down Let's burn the White House down I don't really care just who is living there Let's burn the White House down VERSE Let’s tear down the patriarchy Feed the rich to the dogs CHORUS Let's burn the White House down Let's burn the White House down I don't really care just who is living there Let's burn the White House down Let's burn the White House down Let's burn the White House down

about

The songs on When We Drown come from 8 years of Februarys, written during the February Album Writing Month challenge. In those 8 years, I’ve had the honor and pleasure of working with dozens of amazing collaborators, trading sounds and words and images and emotion through scores of songs. Each of those collaborators has left me with new perspectives that bleed into my own work.

When it came to putting together this release, I wanted to focus on how that collaboration has influenced my writing. This is the first time that I’ve released something where I’ve written everything “alone.” “Alone” needs quotes… the influences of all of those collaborators shine through loud and clear, and none of these songs would exist without the things I’ve learned from them in the 12 years I’ve been writing in the FAWM community. Future releases will showcase those collaborators again.

So, enjoy this selection of rock, pop, punk, and whatever else you want to call this sonic landscape. In every sense, these songs capture my musical identity today. Creating these songs over the last 8 years and refining them over the summer of pandemic lockdown has been the highlight of my musical journey, and I’m ecstatic to share that journey with you.

And to share it for however much you want to pay. On platforms that allow me to give you this music for free, it is yours for free. Otherwise, I’m selling it cheap. I made this music because I wanted to hear it myself, and to share it with my friends.

credits

released September 29, 2020

All songs written, produced, and performed by John Das Binky, except:
Jenna Joanis - drums on all but 6
Jordan Hirsch - backing vocals on 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9
Deb Isaac - backing vocals on 5
Nancy Rost - piano on 6
Andrei Mamonau - lead guitar on 5

All songs copyright 2020, Das Binky Music; www.dasbinky.com

Mastered by Mat Leffler-Schulman at Mobtown Studios in Baltimore, MD. Album art by Kris Hammargren. Sound effects for track 10 obtained from www.zapsplat.com

Special thanks to Devin Melanson, Pete Watkinson, Eric Distad, Jordan Hirsch, and Mat Leffler-Schulman for their ears; Drew Thompson, Jeff Smith, and Pat Theilen for their gear; the FAWM Community and my family for their support; and the musicians who shaped this album with their talents.

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Founded on the idea that genre is a construct alternately embraced and ignored, the Das Binky Recording Collective is John Das Binky, a multi-instrumentalist based in Madison, WI, and a rotating band of collaborators who join him in the battle to create catchy and enduring pop, rock, metal, folk, electronica and whatever else they can think of playing. ... more

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