Philadelphia’s The Describers Look for the Reset Button with New Single ‘Hurt Starting Over’ Out July 26

(Philadelphia, PA – July 18, 2022) What do you do when you need to unlearn? Keep up with the delusion, or cut it off and start over? 

That’s what Philly’s The Describers ask in their new single “Hurt Starting Over” – trying to cram some introspection and existential dread into a catchy three-minute tune.

The Describers were formed and are led by Jason McGovern, a singer-songwriter whose songs vary from introspective folk and rootsy rock to synthy new wave experiments. 

Most of “Hurt Starting Over” was performed, recorded and mixed by McGovern at his home studio, the Eel Diner Jukebox. The song features Dan Nazario (The Tisburys, Teethcutter, Elijah Ehrhart) on drums, with drums recorded by Justin Nazario at Sound Splitter Studio, and was mastered by Ryan Schwabe.

The new single comes ahead of The Describers’ upcoming album “Ghost in the Rearview” expected in late 2022. The Describers’ most recent singles, “Fever Dream” and “A Little Worse,” were released in 2021, also in anticipation of the new album.

McGovern previously released an album under his own name in 2015, but has been releasing music and performing as and with The Describers since 2018.

Aside from his Describer pursuits, McGovern also plays keyboards for Philly favorites The Tisburys, performing on their upcoming album in 2022, and helped produce their 2021 EP “Pictures of Fireworks.” He also collaborates with other artists in the Philadelphia region representing a wide range of styles, including Andrew Huston and folk mainstay Kyle Swartzwelder.

“Hurt Starting Over” is available July 26 from Eel Diner Jukebox.

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LYRICS

All is quiet in the world I've made
Prayers and wishes that it stays that way
Everything is so picturesque
A fine delusion for the deep distress

Would it hurt starting over?
Would it hurt starting over?
Would it hurt starting over?
Would it hurt starting over?

Something ringing in my ears again
Salutations from a so-called friend
They lobbed a candy-coated love grenade
With instructions how to know my place

Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt starting over?)
Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt starting over?)
Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt starting over?)
Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt, would it hurt, would it hurt?)

There's a whisper saying to forget
But part of me would like to play again
I got most of my assumptions wrong
Learning lessons like a solfège song

Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt starting over?)
Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt starting over?)
Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt starting over?)
Would it hurt starting over? (Would it hurt, would it hurt, would it hurt?)

All is quiet in the world I've made
Prayers and wishes that it stays that way

Hurt Starting Over

Bewilder - From the Eyrie (TE203) out Spring 2023 on Tiny Engines

From the Eyrie

Bewilder - Heavy Sweater

Elsewhere jets cut the cumulus silently
The heart beats a path up this hill so rapidly
They soar in circles till they roost at the last sight
Tracing out the minutes ticking down in civil twilight
Microscope periscope telescope stethoscope
Hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know

Cumulus
I’ll be lost in you
Now watch you
Erase the streetlights of a town I really never knew

And I can see her watching me watching her
Lookout for a signal on the sea as the scenes blur
Just when you think you might really own this real estate
accumulate and aggregate and watch the years accelerate  

White whales gassed up long cars and longer cars
Descended from sky gift of gods of the tiki bars
Microscope periscope telescope stethoscope
A hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know

Cumulus
See you cry for me 
Watch you
Erase the buildings of a town that could never be

That’s me escaping on a contrail (a contrail)
Twenty four exposures on a roll (right outta here)
And that’s me escaping like a swallowtail (a swallowtail)
Twenty four and seven in row (woah)

And I can feel you watching me watching you
and watching me watching you watching me missing you and missing me missing you
 
And I can feel it from the window seat
And I can feel it from the row 
I can feel it thirty thousand feet and
I can feel it from below 
I can feel it from below
I can feel it from below

And she can see me watching her watching me
These ideas they do not fall too far from the apple tree
Microscope periscope telescope stethoscope
A hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know

Cumulus
I’ll be lost in you
Now watch you
Erase the streetlights of a town I really never knew

Hundred ways to measure and there’s just no way to know
There’s just no way to know

Cumulus

Alone, alone
not together are we
I have learned to tell that
dying alone will be without
  the comfort of humanity
But how can I be alone? 
with the comfort of the supernatural 
how could I have missed him--?
Venom holds me close
Out in the wilderness,
my heart freezes
and I check it compulsively
for death
The signs approach from all sides
frozen in my home
four walls, four stories being told
Who is Lex? 
For whom is this haunting brought? 
I dare you to say it, 
knowing full well you cannot


If I were to acknowledge
what we once were, just a child
might we revert to that sadness? 
revert to the way I used to hide? 


That loss of control, or rather
never been granted in the first place
Perhaps not a gift from above
an eternity we are derived from
but a land to which we dream
reach, pray, cry
Oh, this mythology, 
has it wasted my life? 


Will there come soon 
a time to decide
between such myths and leading humanity
between life and dying
for if I partake in my calling
death is quite close
and control is within reach
Something I'm accomplishing
But without,
there is no comfort of nothingness
to instead partake in the world of humans
as a god without power
could I handle being so alone
from the first to the  final hour? 
So small, so tearful
such a child you were
you are, will always be
Hurt, an invalid
you were never enough, and yet
we love you for it
An opportunity here
to prove yourself
we provide you the love you seek
the punishment you deserve
for the two have always gone
  hand in hand
he hits you because he loves you
because it's what you've earned
Your punishment is a sign
of great divinity
you alone hold the responsibility
for the humans
because everything you do is an
example of humanity 


If I were to acknowledge
what we once were, just a child
might we revert to that sadness? 
revert to the way I used to hide? 


That loss of control, or rather
never been granted in the first place
Perhaps not a gift from above
an eternity we are derived from
but a land to which we dream
reach, pray, cry
Oh, this mythology, 
has it wasted my life?

Lex 9 - 13

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70's TV Show

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Rod Stewart – Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Dee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart (Extended Version)
Mauro – Buona Sera, Ciao Ciao
Spooky – Schmoo (Stripped Down Dub)
Off – La Casa Latina (Offensiva Mix)
BCN Orchestra – Quien Tu Te Crees? (Part I)
Mory Kanté– Yeke Yeke (Afro Acid Mix)
Klein & M.B.O. – Dirty Talk (Warehouse 83 Edit)
Oppenheimer Analysis – Subterranean Desire
Enya – Orinocco Flow (DMC Dakeyne Remix March 91)
Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
Shut Up And Dance – £20 To Get In
Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies
Pixies – Wave Of Mutilation
Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
Zombie Zombie – The Beach
New Order – Temptation (12” Version)
Baby's Gang – Happy Song
The Streets – Weak Become Heroes
Shampoo – Viva La Megababes
ESG – You Make No Sense
DJ Godfather – Playa Haters In Dis House
Shaggy – Oh Carolina
La Funk Mob – Motor Bass Get Phunked Up (Electrofunk Remix)
Dinosaur Jr. – Just Like Heaven
Acen – Trip II The Moon (The Darkside)
Tina Miller – I'll Stand By You
The 2 Live Crew – Do Wah Diddy
Delroy Edwards – Always (Edit)
Giorgio Moroder – From Here To Eternity (Sis Remix)
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Telex – Moskow Diskow (86 Mix)
Kazik - Nie Ma Towaru W Mieście
Kapitan Nemo – Elektroniczna Cywilizacja
Eurythmics – Never Gonna Cry Again
Heaven 17 – (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
The Flaming Lips – She Don't Use Jelly

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Trapped in a dream(prod Reign)

Day after day winding your way through the hills of grave reminders of those yesterdays
And after a day or two of wondering who… you’ll find, faces calling you back to a better time

Now and again, fear creeping in, riding out an average Monday on the metro line 
Your station passes by buying you time, time staring out the window at another life

Sink or swim, they tossed you in the deep end when all you wanted was cup of tea, some stability
A paint by number nicely ordered life, sometimes blue or green staying well within the lines  

Right as rain, stepping off the train and into a night alive with bright and shiny things saved normally for dreams
Taking the wrong way home, no one will mind, because no ones home these days, they’ve been away now, for a while

One… Two… Three... GO

We can take it all in stride
[Everybody's lost somebody]
And we will meet on the other side
[People come and go]
Take your pain let it make you stronger
Add your fear to make you feel alive

[Round and round and]
[Always around and around and around we go]
[Survey the grounds and note the highs and the lows]
Something’s in bloom but god only knows

So softly the wind blows through my window
Step outside to free my mind
A light in the night sky
A meteor flyby 
Catches my eye…
Record, Play, Rewind

We can take it all in stride
[Everybody's lost somebody]
And we will meet on the other side
[Everybody knows]
Take your pain let it make you stronger
Add your fear to make you feel alive

We can take it all in stride
[What'll I do without the daily routine, painting by numbers the blues and the greens]
And we will meet on the other side
[Survey the grounds and note the highs and the lows, something's in bloom but god only knows]
Take your pain let it wash away like tears in rain under a fearless sky

Record, Play, Rewind

Living For The Free

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Deep vibes from the cave (A Kittys Game Boy Time Rmx)

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