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lyrics

Oh my ashen glow,
The old moon in the new moon’s arms
I doubt myself, maybe this didn’t happened exactly as I remember it
It’s been a long time gone
But it happened and by that I mean it really happened
Sometimes you have no choice but to doubt your own memory
That’s the way it is, the mind’s eye remembers something
Believes in a pinpoint accuracy
Until somebody else takes that pin and bursts your fever dream
wide open until it spills out right in front of you
A river of half-truths rushing away before you can soak them all back in

I’m incandescent, you burn as you get too close
Sanguine desires, I’ll serve you a lethal dose
One moment strong and the next moment gone

It’s the vein in your neck, you can feel it right there.
Not sure if something is pumping towards your brain, or away from your brain but you know it’s moving,
and you know it’s altering everything you thought to be true
But, see, consciousness begs for something more than just salience
It’s not just what came before but what might be possible,
come what may
The narrative is a beast, and the beast must be constantly fed to survive
But two people, two people can read that same story,
those exacting words
and the end result is two antipodal meanings
that barely resemble each other at all
So yeah, it happened, but that means almost nothing...

I stood unaltered, you measured defeated
Took what you could never got what You needed
I maimed you in the process I named you

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
You sent a straw man
When it wasn’t needed
I was already defeated
I was already singing that tune
And I would have stood by
And watched all that dust fly
My love was the earth-shine
By the sparest sliver of the moon

When you stood up in front of everyone
With what appeared to me to be a Cheshire grin
(which you later refuted)
and out loud, told your story of my life
What else could I do but stand complicitly frozen with what was actually a fake Cheshire grin (which I can’t refute) and a casual nod as though i agreed with every disagreeable word
Was I suffering some sort of frequency illusion, or was I just suffering as I was momentarily rendered much more meager
than I actually must have been
If eleven people look at an elephant from eleven different angles
They’ll each tell a completely different story
Maybe all it takes is one person, to look at that elephant
from all eleven of those angles.
But really, who wants to be so alone...

I stand beside all of the half-truths I told you
With presence of mind, but I still want to hold you
I see past, what just couldn’t last...

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
You sent a straw man
When it wasn’t needed
I was already defeated
I was already singing that tune
And I would have stood by
And watched all that dust fly
My love was the earth-shine
By the sparest sliver of the moon
By the sparest sliver of the moon

Philistines, demons at odds with the seven
The weight and the gravity, hell was no heaven
Digging for traces cloaked chapter eleven

And I know there’s no getting over...
You should have known it was over...

You sent a straw man
When it wasn’t needed
I was already defeated
I was already singing that tune
And I would have stood by
And watched all that particle dust fly
My love was the earth-shine
By the sparest sliver of the moon
The sparest sliver of the moon

credits

from Before The Collapse Of The Hive, track released November 10, 2023
Stephen Stanley - Vocals, Guitars
Kate Fenner - Vocals
Chris Bennett - Guitars, Vocals
Chris Rellinger - Bass Guitar
Cam Pyziak - Drums
Hugh Christopher Brown - Piano, Hammond B3
Pete Bowers - Percussion
Jason Mercer - Double Bass

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The Stephen Stanley Band Toronto, Ontario

The Stephen Stanley Band announce their new album, Before The Collapse Of The
Hive (Wolfe Island Records) will be released on November 10, 2023. It's an album
brimming with raw, unflinching urgency, steadfast observation and soul-searching storytelling
that highlights Stephen's immediate world: those he loves, and those he's lost.


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