For And Against Lyrics

[Outtahere]

 

I haven't seen the lyrics to For and Against. So I tried to lay them down. Do you guys reckon those are pretty accurate?

 

There's something happening in my home town

Folks are building up things they used to have torn down

My granddaddy used to say the neighbors should have a key to your front door

So how come now that I'm a man this ain't the sort of place he laid his life down for?

 

Who are you and where do you come from?

There's a darken night there and sometimes in the day do you miss the sun?

Do you feel like it's easier to choke?

Like breathing's just a trick to make you feel a part of something,

Like everything's a trick to make you feel a part of something

 

To feel your head, hit your heart, hear yourself scream

Still alive but set up to die

(For and against the same thing)

The wind it blows, the ocean throws, the world waits sleeping

Inside this cage, ancient heart

(For and against the same thing)

The way you move against my skin gives me needing

The way we were is the way we are

(For and against the same thing)

 

There's something happening in my home town

Folks are hearing voices but they never make no sound

Do you feel like it's easier to choke?

Like breathing's just a trick to make you feel a part of being knocked down, set back up, knocked down again

 

To feel your head, hit your heart, hear yourself scream

Still alive but set up to die

(For and against the same thing)

The wind it blows, the ocean throws, the world waits sleeping

Inside this cage, ancient heart

(For and against the same thing)

Like the way you move against my skin gives me needing

The way we were is the way we are

(For and against the same thing)

The way we were is the way we are

(For and against the same thing)

 

Yeah the way we were is the way we are

(For and against the same thing)

[NonPopulus]

It's between this and We Are a Place for songs I'd most like to hear completed versions of from the Light of Endandgered Species era demos. This is just such a great track. The lyrics you have look good to me. It's what I hear, anyhow.

[Outtahere]

Oh yeah me too, exactly the same (this and We Are a Place). The song has little lyrics but it's absolutely awesome!

[Manchalivin]

This is one that I would have liked to be on LOES. Really like the instrumentation and vocals on this one.

[NonPopulus]

Which song do you think he might be referring to in the Lithium article?

 

"Matt: There was one song I toyed around with at the early stages of the demos, I tossed it right away, I was like: ‘Meh’.

Zach: So basically a very streamlined writing for this one?

Matt: (drinking tea) Mmhhmm! It was like that for “Lights,” too with the exception of one song. I kind of just write what I needed."

- See more at: http://lithiummagazine.com/interview-matthew-good-august-28-2013#sthash.a1hEoj7Z.dpuf

 

I wonder if there was an additional completed song that didn't make it, and if so if it was one of the demos we've heard. If I were an artist, I don't know how I'd feel about fans setting their sights on old demo material when I had a new album, but I love Arrows of Desire, and I'd love to hear anything that might be laying around on hard drives or on tapes somewhere. I'm sure it would all be amazing to us.

[Outtahere]

I think he might be talking about We Are a Place which, I believe, he removed from the record when he wrote Non Populus.