Providence, RI

2 weeks ago by @apersonnamedrose

Liner Notes

#4track #experimental #indierock #ween

Warning: the following paragraph talks about a nightmare I had and it might freak you out!!! Sorry.

On September 12th last year, I finished up two demos called Forest of Illusion (a new one at the time) and Hopesong (a fairly old one) and went to bed. I'm not sure if I was sick and didn't realize it or something, or if my brain had just fully given up, but that night I tossed and turned in bed for 5 hours with my room only lit by the screen of my iPad, fully convinced I had just bought plane tickets to Providence, RI and that I'd somehow need to get to LAX at 8 in the morning even though I can't drive and the people I live with wouldn't be able to drive me there and I'd be basically stranded on the other side of the country. I considered texting my girlfriend or one of my friends or anything about my plight, but it was as if my body was glued together and all I could do was turn it as a whole rather than act independently. Around 4:30 AM, I - for lack of a better term - snapped out of it, figured it was just a really vivid nightmare even though it felt REAL at the time, and immediately texted my girlfriend about what happened even though she was probably asleep.

That morning, the phrase I repeat appeared in my mind, and it took me until now to realize it as a... "song"? That and I just needed to fill up the rest of the cassette since I couldn't fit a full song on the trimmings, so to speak, so I figured a super slowed-down song made real by literal nightmare fuel would work good. That's why it cuts off at the end! @jaythejackalope (the aforementioned girlfriend) recommended I do the "define Providence" change-up when I explained the song to her before I made it, and I liked that a lot, so I did that. Thanks Jay!!!

Oh yeah, also the semi-mispronunciation of Pawtucket was intentional. My bad if you don't like that, it's sort of an in-joke in a group chat I'm in... felt like a cool nod.

Lyrics

[with apologies to Pansy Division:]
So many "Paw"-tucket dreams are merely New Hampshire schemes
So why fall into the same old stream, falling apart at the seams?
Take me back to Providence, divine providence
Take me back to Providence, define "providence"
Take me back to Providence, divine providence
Take me back to Providence, define "providence"

Up in bed, not feeling great
It's nearly three thousand miles away
How will I get to the airport terminal?
How will I get somewhere else discernible?
Take me back to Providence, divine providence
Take me back to Providence, define "providence"
Take me back to Providence, divine providence
Take me back to Providence, define "providence"

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