Tremors
- Format
- Album track
- Genre
- atmospheric electronic · post-rock
- Date
- Catalog
- TVR004
Lyrics
I can feel it in the floorboards
Something shifting underground
All the things I thought were solid
Making such a different sound
There's no stopping what's already started
There's no closing what's been opened wide
These are tremors, not the breaking
This is how the new comes through
Everything I was is shaking
Making room for something true
Used to fear the ground would swallow
Every question that I held
Now I'm learning how to follow
What the cracks have always spelled
These are tremors, not the breaking
This is how the new comes through
Everything I was is shaking
Making room for something true
Let it move
Let it move through me
Let it prove
What I'm meant to be
These are tremors, not the breaking
This is how the new comes through
Everything I was is shaking
Making room for something true
Something's coming
Something's coming...
The Story
There comes a point where everything you thought you were starts to shake. First it is the limits, the things you built your life around to feel safe. Then the name you go by, the story of who you are, all the certainties you stacked up around yourself. It feels like losing all of it, and you brace, you fight to hold it together, because holding it together was the whole point.
The bracing never let you see this. The one you spent your life chasing, the thing you were sure was out ahead of you, is the one doing the searching. You are what you were looking for. There was never any distance to close.
And the strength you wanted comes the moment you stop gripping. The grip was the only impossible part. Open your hands, and what you thought would swallow you holds you instead. The bracing was the only part that ever hurt.