do we run? featuring Scott Amendola

from love letters from the end of the world by lay / lie

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recorded on September 9th, 2020, the day the sun never rose, DO WE RUN? captures the ominous dread of that day, when everyone in the Bay was collectively looking out at darkened skies and wondering if it was already too late.

guitarist John Givens sets the tone with looping guitars that stretch and percolate, while Sarah Iyer’s vocals, warped with delay and static, ask the titular question in reflective refrain. On this track, the duo is joined by acclaimed jazz drummer, Scott Amendola, whose frenetic percussion crashes and punctuates, and tone guru Hondo Feldman, whose fuzzed,
almost nautical bass provides steady footing in treacherous territory.

lyrics

when the sky was not the sky
but heat
and smoke
ash settling funereal while we burned our dead alive,
i ran up the hillside, loud, heroic
to find the coyotes pacing menacing and myself the only one left to save.

i filled my hands with stones to toss at red horizons
and shouted grief til lungsore, til empty, til wrung
and my fraying joints carried the weight of me home.

what is the future to children who do not know the sky?
who must shut their doors and learn to build from strangers in glowing boxes?
who must swallow with raw pink throats the words of the arsonists and return the cutting things whole, unburned by acid bellies full of reason, glistening instead with the saliva of obedience?

their future is a bag packed and set beside the door that they have filled with their most precious things, expanding softness testing zipper toothed grip, and which i have replaced with shoes that fit, with water.

their future is to run.

credits

from love letters from the end of the world, track released June 21, 2021
featuring
Scott Amendola: drums
Hondo Felder: bass
Sarah Iyer: vocals
John Givens: guitar