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about
The lyrics to this song were written around the same time as a song with a similar theme – “Passenger Seat” from Beneath a Balcony, and about the same relationship. Just like that tune, the subject was that ever-challenging notion of breaking down the emotional walls of the objects of one’s desire. I still love the image of the smashed guitars as firewood.
Giulio and I started a demo of this in January of 2008, but abandoned it midway to focus on what seemed like more promising tracks at the time, and the demo was never finished. I always had mixed feelings about this tune, up until the very last sessions for Anthems in early 2010, when the combination of Steve McDonald adding his larger-than-life guitar solo and Kelli Noftle laying down yet another killer backing-vocal melody perfected the outro section. Once I heard the final product, I couldn’t leave the song off the album.
lyrics
Come rolling to the middle, wrap your arms around me, and if you’re not asleep yet,
tell me another story about how the walls went up, brick by brick, high around the city where you live. You might say you love me. You might even mean it, even put a ring on, even have my children, but if the walls go up, it comes undone faster than we built it. So if it’s all the same to you, let’s pretend that we are young again, undamaged by the cold, wide-eyed children like before, never fearing for our little lives, feeling whole once more. Ease up, now. It’s safe in here. Ease up, now. It’s safe in here.
Let’s gather up the pieces and put you back in order. We’ll learn to see the bright side
of the darkness you have spoken, or compare you to a beam of light: bent but never broken. So if it’s all the same to you, let’s admit we’ve never done this right, we’ve never had a clue. But I’ll have all the answers soon, and when I do I promise to tell you, so you have them too. Ease up, now. It’s safe in here. Ease up, now. You’re safe in here.
So if it’s all the same to you, let’s go hide somewhere that’s hard to find, some snowy quiet room. And I will smash all my guitars, we can use them all for firewood, and burn away the gloom. Ease up, now. It’s safe in here. Ease up, now. You’re safe in here. Ease up now. It’s safe in here. Ease up, now. You’re safe in here.
credits
from Anthems,
released March 6, 2012
Music and lyrics by Marc M. Cogman
Marc M. Cogman - vocals, acoustic guitar, hand percussion
Frogs - electric bass
Steve McDonald - electric guitar
Giulio Carmassi - piano
Justin Siegel - drums
Kellianne Noftle - backing vocals
Produced by Justin Siegel and Marc M. Cogman
Recorded at Radar! by Justin Siegel, Eddie Jackson, and Frogs, and Black Truffle Sound by Giulio Carmassi
Mixed at the Lily Pad by Frogs
Mastered at Beach Studio by Eddie Jackson
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