Enough

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The first Arliston release.

You look out over some precipice in front of an immense, beatific scene and experience that classic symptom of watching too many Hollywood movies: Absorbed by the thought of how you must look right now. A heroic protagonist perfectly framed by an imaginary camera hanging in front of them. Not truly thinking about the view at all. (This was actually an idea borrowed from a book called ‘Here are the Young Men’ by Rob Doyle. An awesome book, if you get the chance to read it.) The scene in the music video with both characters absorbed by their reflection in the mirror represents this.

The song doesn’t offer any solutions to the problem but the solipsism and ‘I’ repetition gets increasingly loud and demanding, until actually the verse lyrics end up repeating themselves before ending up being utterly ‘enveloped by I’.

lyrics

Cold shirt, bare-chested.
Eyes first, extended, I
Sunburn, protected.
Crime-wave corrected, I

I

“I know that it’s enough”,
Cut that beating phrase you used and used,
Falling back into dust,
If my head falls, you’re better off, you’re better off
Function or freeway, iced out of Norway

I

I know that it’s enough,
Can’t outrun or know the arrow
Turning man into dust
If my head falls, you’re better off, you’re better off

You were standing in that cold shirt, bare-chested
Eyes first, extended, I
I remember how we were unformed, upended, face down
And enveloped by I

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released June 29, 2018
Jack Ratcliffe, Chris Blakey, George Hasbury, Toby Horton

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