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That's One Way to Quiet a Room

from Suddenly by Math Club

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I'm amazed by the way you can ruin things.
In the name of modernity, start to erase
every trace of a history you'll never miss.
Every memory covered in layers of paint.
Like a hospital, sterile and white-washed.
Ghosts and echoes of family kiboshed.
Plastered over by what's "inoffensive" to you.
That's one way to quiet a room.

Sage and mahogany, warped wooden floors,
heights of two children we scribbled on doors,
shelves full of Counting Crows records we turned off too soon.
That's one way to quiet a room.
Every inch painted over with grey
and hospital white, what a sad sight to see.
All the blood that we shed on the floor's been removed.
That's one way to quiet a room.

You're cutting limbs off the family maple,
where a tire swing started to rot in the rain.
And the hockey sticks stuffed in a barrel,
replaced them with shovels.
Whatever, we used 'em the same.
Gone's the workshop where we cut our teeth,
where I beat the shit out of drums to keep up with my feet.
Are those dissonant cymbals still ringing for you? No?
That's one way to quiet a room.

Sage and mahogany, warped wooden floors,
heights of two children we scribbled on doors,
shelves full of Great Big Sea records we turned off too soon.
That's one way to quiet a room.
Every inch painted over with grey
and hospital white, what a sad sight to see.
All the blood that we shed on the floor's been removed.
That's one way to quiet a room.

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from Suddenly, released November 11, 2022
Written/performed/mixed/mastered by Wade Morrison (Math Club) in his home.

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Math Club Hamilton, Ontario

Math Club is the musical project of Hamilton, Ontario songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Wade Morrison and all of his closest friends.

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