Gibberish

from Tentatively Self-titled by Pete Davis

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The first version of this song had a 5-minute intro of wonky detuned guitar nonsense, but I took it out. The second version was recorded in the middle of summer in New Jersey, and the trees around my house were clamoring with a chorus of cicadas chirping away. It came through on the recording pretty well when the instruments were low, and I really sort of miss that sound. This is now the third version, and I don't know that there's anything noteable about it yet.

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You have to trust the you put your faith in the right place when you give it away.
When you close your eyes, you have to believe that I'm still here and will never go.
Wake up from this dream state. You're lucid, you're losing it.
The sun rose while you were sleeping, but dropped down forever.

In God we trust, in God we tried, in God we failed, in God we lied.

I have every reason and right to be skeptical that what we may hope for has any chance of coming.

We pile the bricks but we don't lay the walls. We wait here all day, but don't answer the calls. The lines that we love, the words that we keep; the only gibberish we know. It means nothing.

And we have to believe that anyone cares.
And we have to believe there's something out there.
And we have to believe that's someone upstairs making all that noise.

And we have to believe that we know what we need, that there's no such thing as uncertainty, but it's the only thing that's guaranteed, but it's no use.

And you have to believe that will has a way of keeping us sane.

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from Tentatively Self-titled, released December 29, 2001
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