Maron

The Lion's Mouth

Sanity Defamed

Sailor’s Lament, Pt. 1, tells a tale of doomed love in its denouement, using as it’s portal a wind-swept, oceanic world of wrecked vessels and wretched seafarers. The shanty-like melody and lyrics, heralded by plaintive electric guitar and lulling banjo, sustain the listener through an outpouring of dashed hopes and sinking feelings. The gradual crescendo into a cacophonous coda of strings, guitars, and crashing percussion builds a turbulent atmosphere in the vein of post- rock outfits like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mogwai. This thematic climax, contrasted elsewhere against gentleness and serenity, works to establish a characteristic cinematic identity to Kirks & Company’s oeuvre.

Sailor's Lament, Pt.1

Sailor’s Lament, Pt. 2 is sequel to the opener. The track echoes the sonic and lyrical motifs of the first, bringing the EP’s overall narrative to quiet completion. As the final notes echo coldly across an oceanic soundscape, there is a note of hope in Anna’s parting words - ‘I told the sun to stop, but it won’t / As fog will lift our languor / The shadow cower and flee, my dear / And every eye will dry’.

Sailor's Lament Pt.2

On the seashore we made our last stand
By the stroke of your terror-struck hand
The beast was slain
And yet the beast remained

Wide and wild, our eyes swept the land
Dragging our feet in the sand
We’d gone insane 
It’s sanity defamed

What do you run from
What do you run from
It’s over, it’s dead and gone
Child, don’t dismay
And yet we stay the same

What do you run from
What do you run from
When all of it comes undone
And starts to fray
It’s sanity defamed

Like the serpent he slithered away
For all his promises, still to betray us
Oh the shame
And you took all the blame

Strike the armour you feign for a chest
Bent and buckled enough to suggest
We can’t reclaim 
What sanity defamed

What do you run from
What do you run from
It’s over, it’s dead and gone, child, 
Don’t dismay
And yet we stay the same

What do you run from
What do you run from
When all of it comes undone
And starts to fray
It’s sanity defamed

Sanity Defamed (Demo)

Sad-kid indie-folk meets biblical eschatology.