Name: Descendant by Eddie Rifkind
Duration: 4 min 40 s
Description: This is the new (2016) addition of lyrics and guitar, as well as a new arrangement, to the instrumental piece, "Descent" from my 2002 album Participating Asylums May Vary. The original was itself a remix of "Pulses," from the same album. The entire 4-song evolution can be heard in its entirety here: https://soundcloud.com/eddierifkind/sets/pulses-remix-cycle

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Consequence

Culture

Crawl

At the end of the sofa you sit like a pillow
Quietly watching TV
You are the curve that I burrow into
You are a mountain to me 
But I won't say the words
I won't say the words

So instead I'll brush the lint off of your shoulder
And pull the lash from your eye 
Before you step over the cracks in the street
I'll make certain your laces are tied
But I won't say the words
I won't say the words 
Until you say them first

My favourite hour is 6 in the morning
When you're safety sound asleep
Your head on my heart
I look down at you 
And whisper quietly 

Those three little words 
Now what if you'd heard?
Maybe it's better if I write you a letter
But paper's so easily torn 
Just like my heart, a dazzled wound
That I don't want to hurt anymore
So I won't say the words I won't, I won't

At the end of the sofa you sit like a pillow
You are a mountain to me
But I won't say the words
I won't say the words
So instead I'll brush lint off of your shoulder
I'll pull the lash from your eye
Maybe it's better if I write you a letter
But paper's so easily torn
So I won't say the words
I won't say the words

Concord

Wolfville - Say the Words

In a high-rise court in Manhattan town  
A former president, now he's feeling down  
Thirty-four counts, the verdict's come through  
Guilty on all, it's the conviction blues

It's the conviction blues, the gavel's come down  
Hush money, false records, now he's wearing a frown  
The jury spoke, and the truth was found  
In the court of law, justice came around

Eleven checks they say, disguised as legal dues  
Payments to silence whispers, now he's got the news  
Intent to defraud, to conceal another crime  
Elevates the charges, now he's out of time

It's the conviction blues, the gavel's come down  
Hush money, false records, now he's wearing a frown  
The jury spoke, and the truth was found  
In the court of law, justice came around

From campaign days of old, to the courtroom's cold embrace  
A scheme to keep things quiet, now laid out in this place  
Conviction on all counts, the jury made it clear  
The former president's fate, now sealed in here

Prosecutors laid it bare, the facts for all to see  
Violations of the law, hidden deceptively  
Each count a separate tale, of a record falsified  
Now they seek the truth, where justice must preside

It's the conviction blues, the gavel's come down  
Hush money, false records, now he's wearing a frown  
The jury spoke, and the truth was found  
In the court of law, justice came around

So we see the verdict, as the gavel’s set to fall  
History has been written, with justice after all  
The conviction blues echoes through the hall  
In the hush money trial, we saw justice, standing tall

Conviction Blues

Conviction Blues - The Layoffs

Under Mostly Cloudy Skies -Work In Progress

DRUGS ALL DAY

This is the new (2016) addition of lyrics and guitar, as well as a new arrangement, to the instrumental piece, "Descent" from my 2002 album Participating Asylums May Vary. The original was itself a remix of "Pulses," from the same album. The entire 4-song evolution can be heard in its entirety here: https://soundcloud.com/eddierifkind/sets/pulses-remix-cycle

Extra Chaos

Descendant

MAKING COMPLETELY SELF-INDULGENT MUSIC SINCE 1989. instagram.com/eddierifkind
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Eddie Rifkind is a guitar pedal builder, visual artist and musician in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. His music varies widely in style, and has been compared to everyone from Machines of Loving Grace to the Legendary Pink Dots to David Bowie to KMFDM to Led Zeppelin to Dead Can Dance to Killing Joke, drawing influences from those and many other eclectic and inspired rock, post-rock, post-punk, industrial, metal, blues and classical sources. He also does his own cover art.

Descendant

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