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Diastole

from Eunoia by Invalids

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about

This was the first song written for this album. The only band I had ever heard like this was Maps and Atlases (and soon This Towns Needs Guns thereafter) and I had to figure out how to play it. So I wrote a song that is very, very much like their old style.

I wasn't originally planning to do vocals for this project. Some told me they were good as instrumentals, some kept pushing me to try vocals and see where it went. I wasn't sure there was enough sonic space for everything to fit with all of the motion in the music, but I decided to try it out and really liked how the song changed when vocals were added. This was the first song to which I added vocals, and by that point I had already written half of the album.

This one is fun to play now because it's so easy by comparison :)

lyrics

In time we learned to wait
To gather all the leaves
Until the last one fell
Away from the tree

Over my shoulder I saw
You looking back over yours
How easy would it be now
That we know what we know?

All this time we spent waiting around
Putting off all the issues too big to face
In favor of the smallest of things that we could actually do
To feel as though we tried something
At least we know we did something

Hushed by the sound
Of your diastole
Tenuous the grasp
Til we were asked to leave

It’s not keeping it so you won’t forget
It’s letting yourself believe you won’t
It’s not welcoming sunlight through the shades
It’s getting yourself up out of bed
It’s not realizing just how bad it was
It’s realizing just how bad it gets

We last spoke about the future
And doesn’t it seem naive
All the things we thought we’d see?

In time we learned to let
The closest ones see
What we’d been hiding
Underneath the fallen leaves

Outside my window I saw
No one was looking out yours
The best that I could explain
You finally packed your things and moved away

All this time wondering who’d be there
If we’d just gone and knocked on the door
But we just rationalized that probably you weren’t home

At least you know we thought of you
At least we know we did something

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from Eunoia, released January 31, 2012

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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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