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rain dancer

from Vernus by Rswll

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    The Sabotage Montage on tape, containing all four Quadrants:

    • Vernus
    • Estivus
    • Autumnus
    • Hibernus

    Packaging, pad print artwork and slipcase designed by Rswll. This special release is limited to only 96 copies and will not be reproduced. Each copy is numbered in black Sharpie by Rswll's hand.

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    - Wrapped in a Double Cassette Slipcase (w/ Thumbholes)
    - Clear Cassette with Metallic Red Liner
    - Super Ferro Normal-Bias Tape
    - Unique Pad Prints on Each Side of the Cassettes
    - Professionally Real-Time Duplicated

    Includes unlimited streaming of Vernus via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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about

The epicentre of this record’s soundscape, the originator. The decisions made here birthed the template from which all the other songs were built, for better or worse.

I think I’d been scribbling on a keyboard when I stumbled onto this jingle hook fit for a chorus, so I immediately put it into Logic to not forget it. As I filled out the demo with improv programming, another melody appeared ("One more foot in the door...") but it was much stronger than that jingle hook. So it became the main chorus, and the jingle hook became the post-chorus ("Might be broken..."). It was all surprisingly poppy and marked a new direction for what the record was at the time—a fifty track, neo-folk rambling opus—one that was necessarily lighter and more accessible.

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lyrics

I’m a wrecking ball of a broken heart
You’re an easy match; I’m a wildcard
It’s a stupid game I never win
Find my trigger fingers itching for this killing to begin

Flashing a deadpan
Dazzle with ease
Reeling you in
Slashing the leash
I am a stopgap gimcrack whore
But lately I’ve been looking for

One more foot in the door
No, I don’t take much to come crawling back again
I won’t fall on my sword
But I’ll be just fine till I’m firing rapidly
“Fuck you! I hate you!”
We still hook up when I’m outta self-love

Might be token
But I’m still hoping for
Rain
Rain

Dreaming of you when I’m hard—on luck
I get roughed around till I toughen up
Then I’m cursing these cutpurses stealing my heart
Rolling my eyes as I’m not that hard

I’m a flash in the pan
Spitting up grease
Come in your mouth but I piss in the breeze
I am a stopgap gimcrack whore
But lately I’ve been looking for

One more foot in the door
No, I don’t take much to come crawling back again
I won’t fall on my sword
But I’ll be just fine till I’m firing rapidly
“Fuck you! I hate you!”
We still hook up when I’m outta self...

Might be token
But I’m still hoping for
Rain
Rain

All it takes is softly holding your hand
And all it takes is being the bigger man
And all it takes is someone else in my bed
All it takes is gently kissing your head
‘Cause

I’m still open
I’m still hoping for rain
I’m still hoping
I’m still open to change
I’m still open
I’m still hoping for rain
I’m still hoping
I’m still open to

All that I require is

(I won’t fall on my sword
But I’ll be just fine, I swear!)

‘Cause it might be broken
But I’m still hoping that
I might be coping though I’m
Likely joking when I’m
Nightly smoking something
Might be going insane
Might be token but
I’m still hoping to

Change

Fuck you, I hate you
We still hook up when I’m outta self-love
Might be token but
I’m still hoping for
Rain
I’m still hoping for...

(When I’m outta self-love
When I’m outta self-love
When I’m outta self-love
When I’m outta self-love
When I’m outta self-love
When I’m outta self-love
When I’m outta self...)

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from Vernus, released March 19, 2021

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