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Recorded on a Samsung Note 3

This might be my favorite song I've written.

For thirty seconds I was going to have one line be, "This moment thick as caramel with the stickiness of fate."

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I cook us up a meal while you grab our supplies. We'll need to be well fed to make it through this with our lives. What we're about to do, we'll doubtlessly regret but if we cannot carry through we'll surely die of debt. I drive up to the bank and get out of the car. You park it somewhere else that's not too close and not too far. I step up to the bank and pull out my new gun. This is where the fear begins but also starts the fun.

Oh no. Here I go.

I step up to the desk and people start to flee. I then set off a warning shot so they won't toy with me. And then they all stand still. They're under my control. They hand me all their jewels, and phones, wallets, and dollar rolls. I grab the buffalo bag. I might make it out of here. But then I whip around hearing a gunshot in my ear and there he stands the cop his barrel pointing straight, this moment thick and heavy with the gravity of fate.

Oh no. Here I go.

I didn't want to kill. I'm not that sort of man but as the cop keeps shooting I feel tremors in my hand. I'm not leaving alive. I can see it in his eyes. They tell me that one of the two of us will have to die. And so I start to shoot and he's lying on the floor. I think that I just killed a man. I never have before. The worst part is I feel something new and something strange. A fundamental part of me is now about to change.

Oh no. Here I go.

I finally step outside and Katie's waiting there. The sun shines in her eyes and reflects her perfect hair. She helps me with my bags. We put them in the truck. We could really get away with this. All we need is luck. And sirens can be heard in quickly raising pitch. We need to find the other car so this one we can ditch. Katie's driving faster than she's ever done before. I can feel her hunger as we hear the engine roar.

Oh no. Here we go.

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from Transmissions to Trappist 1e, released May 25, 2017

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