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Foot Soldier
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Dear inflexible sleepers of the world: please accept my choices and my lifestyle unconditionally. It's the least you can do. 8/4 time, D major key
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Take a look at that address up there in the address bar. What a nightmare! Do yourself a favor and bookmark it! ++++++++++ We humans tend to get attached to things. We enjoy feeling certain ways and doing certain things, and we do everything within our power to feel those ways and do those things more often. This is perfectly natural, but it does carry with it some dire implications. Specifically, the crafty strategies that we devise in order to approach this and avoid that wind up taking us in circles. Our lives start to become focused on these formulas rather than the desired states of being that had inspired them. Ultimately, we find ourselves trapped in labyrinths of obsolete pleasantries, frustrated with, though largely unwilling to admit, the fact that they no longer work. From here, we spiral down into a profound inflexibility characterized by obsessive attention to impertinent minutia, growing increasingly isolated and at odds with others in the world around us. This in turn leads to all forms of violent oppression and insanity. Reconsiderate addresses this issue by confronting the furthest extrapolations of these "obsolete pleasantries". What he uncovers are unanticipated (or acknowledged) "bumps in the road", repressed nightmares that are just itching to find their way to the surface. In these moments of confrontation, Reconsiderate's intentions are that the dysfunctional strategies be recognized as short-sighted and finite miscalculations, deserving only to be purged as we "go back to the drawing board". As such, Reconsiderate is best understood as a force that supports our spiritual and psychological evolution, even at the expense of our comfort. The word itself, "reconsiderate", can be understood as an adjective that means "able and willing to adapt or change". It is rightly applied to anyone who understands that every aspect of his being-- from his most lofty ideals down to his most basic assumptions about life-- is subject to infinite scrutiny and is eventually destined to be torn down, razed to clear space for What Will Follow. Reconsiderate folk know when it is their time to go, and resist not at all. They work with the "little death", aware that some immutable aspect of their soul survives it, and that only this immortal facet of the soul is worth their time and attention in the first place. Why get attached to anything else??
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Reconsiderate
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Reconsiderate
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October 01, 2007
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Don't be telling me "you're so mean!" I'm sick of dealing with your sleeping heart. It's been imprinted with tradition and the wishes of people who don't even know you and you don't know. It has you marching like a foot soldier, shouting things out loud like: "The master wants to see you restrained and neutralized. You're to be detained at once." ...but come on now. You know better than that. Then again, maybe you don't know better than that. Nothing could be more disappointing than accepting that you could be nothing more than a baby, weak and unable to generate anything, unreliable when we get to major crises, busy with pouting until you get your way. I had hoped that maybe you would've been a person that I could work with instead of carrying. Neither of us is willing to give, so this is gonna to take forever. Fighting back and forth until one of us breaks.... There isn't much left in our aftermath. No one is a winner, and no one is wiser. And that wouldn't be so bad, except that we're gonna be doing this again and again and again and again and again and again.
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Hey, Haven't talked to you in a while. I love this track. It's like a another dimension and the vocals pull you in to this ethereal state. Glad to see your music is still up This is one of my favs.
DEADWATER MONK
Feb 09, 2009
Very Catchy!!! The synth breaths and whispers Cool use of effects And I love the way you phrase your words your voice reminds me of the singer for The B-52's Very rememberable Cool arrangement