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This song is like a tribute to all of our favourite progressive rock artists all crammed into one thing. It’s through composed and features few repeating sections, but the interesting / unique thing about it is that it slowly speeds up from beginning to end (by about 30bpm over 11 minutes). The acceleration is just gradual enough that you don’t really notice it at first, then suddenly think to yourself “wait, isn’t this much faster than it was at the beginning?”. The tempo change was actually quite difficult to deal with from a production standpoint, as it meant that once we started recording parts, we weren’t able to change the structure at all (if we added new sections or moved anything around it would all be out of time because of the speed up). A combination of the this song being almost 11 minutes long, the speed up meaning it all had to be composed and arranged before we recorded anything, and the sheer variety of instrumentation (there ended up being about 120 different tracks in the final session) meant that this song took by far the most time to complete. The initial ~2 minute opening was released as a demo early on in the recording process, and most likely the biggest influence on this track would be the incredible “Milliontown” by the UK band Frost.

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[Verse 1]
The first thing I remember
Is the smell of the air
Of freshly washed sheets
Starched and bleached for the hundredth time
And for a moment I am home
Doing laundry on a Sunday night
But carried on the breeze
Is something else I can't quite recognise

The tide of my breath
Starts to roll in and out
Every movement every touch
Sings out in the silence
But there are no cicadas
No wind in the trees

It's not this quiet in my house
My heart is racing now

[Verse 2]
I push myself up on the side of the bed
Looks like my feet are still attached
To my bare legs
I type a little story with my fingers
Got a headache that's hanging around
But it looks like that's it

Sky blue was never my colour
It reminds me of where I would rather be
I made it all the way to the gate
But it feels like it wasn't my time
Or at least not quite yet
Yeah, at least not quite yet

[Verse 3]
Lines on his face
Were run through with rain
Dust, fixated in anger just hangs there
Unable to be washed away
Now nothing but pity connects us
Ask me for energy, empath, anything at all

I may see nought but armor in the mirror
Within my soul I know
It holds me together

[Verse 4]
But what will you do when it cracks
Water rushes in and you're trapped
You find yourself drowning inside him
A man you once knew like yourself
Preventing you crying out for help
The irony lost in the panic

Confidence is overgrown with anger
A broken shell around a detonator

[Chorus 1]
Pride has taken a toll on me
And now rain still pours
But I can't hold on anymore
Deep into the cracks the dust will fall
Envy now
Strength that can never be found again

[Chorus 2]
Pride has taken a toll on me
And now rain still pours
But I can't hold on anymore
Deep into the cracks the dust will fall
Envy now
Strength that can never be found again

[Bridge]
Everything I've said
Everything I've done
Pales in comparison
To the things I've been running from
Now obsolescence is twisting the knife
Purpose has left you just waiting to die

But damaged as you are
You still matter

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from Now In Colour, released March 15, 2019

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Now In Colour Sydney, Australia

Now In Colour is a 3 piece progressive rock band from Sydney, Australia. Founded by guitarist / singer Niko bassist Jeaux and drummer / percussionist Jasper in late 2017, their first self titled album "Now In Colour" was released on March 15, 2019.

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