Story behind the song
About a story I read in 2006 where a man was found in his apartment who had been dead for 6 years. He was all mummified with an empty bottle of vodka at his side.
Lyrics
Chasing down the light head and the dreamless sleep
Chasing out the stubborn frozen memories
A 26 of Stoli top your grocery list
for a drinking game that you play with your loneliness
Pull your chair up to the table, pour the first glass
a farewell toast to the pictures of your happiness
The winter seeps in through your leaky window
But you can barely feel its pinch in your bath robe
Ledenev, I think you were already dead
when you woke that morning and drifted out of bed
Ledenev, they found you with your glass in hand
A forgotten soul, the fossil of a human man
Walking down the street with ghosts of yesterday
hoping that your son has found a better way
Is this the world where others walk into the light?
Is it the same world where you drank into the lonely night
Ledenev, I think you were already dead
when you woke that morning and drifted out of bed
Ledenev, they found you 6 years later
An empty shell; an outline; a vapour
