I Love You Is Something With Teeth (Neither Matter Nor Void)

3 weeks ago by @freshspotlessyouth

Liner Notes

#postrock
I struggled with this. I spent a lot of time trying to do drums, etc. Ultimately, I just wanted to get the essence of the song, the melody, if not the post-rocking sound I was aiming for. It would probably be best to start over, but I think you can hear the heart of the song in this soupy mix.

I had been reading Lucretius's On the Nature of Things:
For whatever happened was an accident
Either of the people or of the place itself
And if there had been no matter to form things with,
No place or void for things to happen in,
The flame of love, which the beauty of Helen had kindled
And fanned high in the breast of Phrygian Paris
Would never have set ablaze that savage war

Lyrics

Ever so lightly
Ever so lightly
Helen kisses me on the cheek
She leans in and nightly
Takes off her nightie
Helen kisses me on the cheek
She says the words
She says the words
I love you is something to keep
She says the words
She says the words
I love you is something with teeth

Let’s say that Helen is kidnapped
And Troy sacked
It’s people plunged into war
We’d best be careful what we say
For those people are neither matter nor void
Their homes
Their robes
And their toys
Are neither matter nor void
Matter is touched
And the void remains untouched
But those people can’t be touched anymore

They’re accidents in time and space
Matter in the void is placed
In motion
And then
One day
Swept away

I regret donuts uneaten
Not time passed
[Time is just the play of things]
We’d best be careful what we say
For those donuts are are no longer deep-fried rings
Their dough
Their holes
And their glaze
Are no longer in our way
Matter’s touched
And the void remains untouched
But those donuts won't be touched today

They’re accidents in time and space
Matter in the void is placed
In motion
And then
One day
Swept away

I regret donuts uneaten
Not time passed

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