released September 24, 2021

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LYRICS:

It never fails to amaze me
As you're turning my cables to string
Distance fragmented and awkward
As we roll towards

Where we're going
Can we dance with the phantoms?
Or with each other?
Ride the momentum
It's not where we're going
It's where we've been
Where we're going

I thin, bend, and snap
Brittle branch, when my leaves lack
Your whims are my landslides
Can you perceive that

Where we're going
You'll push this aside with my
Dignity fenced off from truth
On the passenger side and it crosses my mind
That it's not where we're going
It's where we've been
Where we're going

My core is cable, steel
Keeping us safe, you can look, feel
Tested with a touch, a gaze, a moment, I reel
Into string, I'm lost and you're cutting

Hanged by my heartstrings now
The first of the failures still reaps its rewards
Waits with retractable arms
As if I'll discover the long lost cause

Where we're going
I'll play the fool, not the lover
As New York recovers
It's not where we're going
It's where we've been
Where we're going

I am not a secret
You can speak my name
A carousel of premonition
Tempers the sting
Cables to string
Remove from me the soft loose threads

Where we’re going
Hope is the deadliest symptom I've ever known
A fever of passion
Burning my entire ration before the ride home
It's not where we're going
It's where we've been
Where we're going

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CREDITS:

Steven Kaiser (piano, guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals)
Isobel Knight (vocals)
Bryan Garbe (drums)
David A. Palatsi (bass)
Ward Williams (cello)
David Fallo (viola)
Joel Lambdin (violin)
Earl Maneein (violin)

MUSIC & LYRICS by Steven Kaiser (BMI) © 2019

PRODUCED by Steven Kaiser
MIXED by Anthony "Rocky" Gallo
ENGINEERED by Bob Mallory, Nathan Rosenberg, and Steven Kaiser
ASSISTANT ENGINEERED by Dylan Herman
MASTERED by Dave McNair
COVER ART by David A. Palatsi

Recorded at Mission Sound, The Doghouse, and Sandbox Studios in Brooklyn, NY