Story Behind The Song

Ambiguous dance of shadows. The song is taking the literal past of the heritage of all the players. The realization of how thick our backgrounds were struck me. The concept of how money presence is so strong and hated, wanted and loved more than rise and fall of who we are. Irish, Jewish and German, creating something together out of thin air. The physical things like money can never last forever. My father worked on cars most his life and the weight of knowing that they also breakdown (good for him) is a deeply profound and spiritual ponderment for myself. We had the privilege of a serendipitous meeting with Laren Corie. When we had wrote this song we were on stage during an open mic might. Laren had worked with some 'bigger' musicians, but had changed his mind of playing after they had ostracized their drummer after a car accident and he felt ill towards the heartless action. His Father had died too and he played the music for his Funeral. He started to play harp and even some mandolin all through inception. This made for an invitation to the studio the next day. He stayed in town as he was traveling different areas far from home to find his heart in music again. The combo of all of this make what the lyrics and song represents. The colorful spectrum of simple daily occurrence and creativity also did not save my current car from recent breakdown. Now that's art!

Lyrics

the world is a prism
its a prison
a spectrum
until you wrecked 'em
only have eight colors in my box
twenty-four and I wasn't rich enough
some don't even have that luck
Sum will never give or fall
sum will never give or fall
at all
not at all
gas leaked out the tank in car
if the machine goes down
we will never get far
and you smile like a broken dream
hanging on to something breaking at the seams
Jews still laugh when things get rough
and sum will never give or fall
sum will never give or fall
sum will never give or fall
sum will never give or fall
at all