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Steinborgium

from Eunoia by Invalids

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about

This track was named after a portmanteau (I know right) of Nick Steinborn, the guest vocalist, and Seaborgium, my favorite (-ly named) chemical element. As a grad student in a particular field of chemistry, I decided to nerd out when doing my take-home final for a mass spectrometry class. This song in particular is inspired by McLafferty rearrangements, in which, during analysis, a compound, which would normally cleave into a neutral radical half and an ionic half, actually undergoes a structural rearrangement before cleavage. This is conceptualized by the focal point of ionization binding to an atom some ways away from it, causing part of the "limb" to attach to the "center" and cleave in a separate place, leaving a new species.

Furthermore, Nick Steinborn, who I've known for many years, had a lot to do with this song. For one, he did guest vocals. But the part over which he sings is very much an allusion to his old band, the Premier. Most of the guys from the Premier (including Nick) went on to form/join a rather successful pop punk band called The Wonder Years. I really liked the Premier and Nick's music, so I decided to "borrow" one section in particular from my favorite song of theirs. I asked Nick to sing on it to complete the allusion and voila.


Nick is also the sole member of Schedule of No Plan, a loop-centric instrumental mathy post-rock guitar factory music project that's really good. scheduleofnoplan.bandcamp.com

lyrics

Once we admitted we knew nothing
There was a place back home
We all went to find what we’d lost
Let the table and its chairs
All lean the way they will
We lean the way we
Will most easily
Let ourselves fall
Headlong, it showed to us there
Long over the ground

Cracks in the windows
Cracks in the street
The line in the sand

Last night you dreamt you were holding something
But it wasn’t holding back
Last night you would ever let something like it
Fool you ever again
Wanted separate eyes for the little things you could barely see
Wanted separate strength cause your tired set of lungs could barely breathe
Drifting off to sleep

And when you timed how long it takes for it to finally make a difference
And it’s not your fault (did you see the ending?)
It was faster just to learn you wasted your time
(coming by now)
When you waited for the net below to save you
And it’s not your fault (it’s completely empty)
Cause we held it high but didn’t pull tight enough

And by that time you couldn’t raise your arms to brace yourself the right way
You’re right, it was all our fault
And you may have lost the war, but still fight losing battles
When we felt the room was burning down around us
You’re right, it was all our fault
Swollen heads and muscles
We let it fill our lungs without a struggle
Could you write us all about it
Still knowing how it sounded?

We admitted we knew nothing
Fell headlong, the ground was closer than we knew
We treated a separate set of palms

credits

from Eunoia, released January 31, 2012
Additional vocals by Nick Steinborn

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Invalids started as the bedroom project of Pete Davis (with remote internet-based collaboration with other musicians). As of March 2015, it has grown to a proper four-piece band with the addition of Joe Scala, Raymond Bonanno, and Blair Benzel.

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