Words & music by Jason McGovern, Eel Diner Jukebox, ASCAP. Keys, guitars, sax and vocals by Jason McGovern. Drums by Andrew Huston. Mastered by Ryan Schwabe.

LYRICS

I'm feeling the steam
Hot, heavy and wet
With only my gin-soaked sweat
To cool me within

I'm breaking out
Like an allergy
Every little part of me
Wants to burst through my skin

Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?

Desperate for breath
From behind my smile
As every unhinged denial
Seeps through my flesh

I'm melting down
Like candle wax
Holding off a heart attack
And feeling like death

Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?

I thought I'd get out once the getting got bad
Cashing out early with what I can
But the siren song took hold of me
And I'm left leaking out my dignity

Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?
Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?

Fever Dream

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

LYRICS

Damn the ghost in the rearview
Trying to broker a peace
Between a work of fiction
And a fractured memory

The specter in the sadness
Haunting every choice
Each path that you have taken
Has a past you can’t avoid

Don’t care to think about it
What’d I’d do to get you out of my head
Don’t care to think about it

Desperate for a distraction
To give a little relief
The chaos on the timeline
Is it destiny or disease?

The madness is in motion
Embedded in your mind
Both regret and satisfaction
As the cosmos multiplies

Don’t care to think about it
What’d I’d do to get you out of my head
Don’t care to think about it

Don’t care to think about it
What’d I’d do to get you out of my head
Don’t care to think about it
What’d I’d do to get you out of my head
Don’t care to think about it

All instruments and vocals by Jason McGovern, except for drums by Dan Nazario. ©2022 Eel Diner Jukebox, ASCAP

Don't Care To Think

LYRICS

Pale green tile, with the crimson decoration
Unadorned through the waking day
Bulging eyes and blurry double vision
Frozen still in a cataleptic haze

Ghostly face slowly recomposing
Making plans, numb inside the shower
Amber moon spying through the window
Counting down the quickly waning hours

You’re in the in between
As I bathe myself misery
You’ll always stay pristine
Locked inside a memory

It comes and goes like an apparition
Calling out an evening of regrets
Branded heart, scourged by recollection
It plays again, cursed not to forget


You’re in the in between
As I bathe myself misery
You’ll always stay pristine
Locked inside a memory

Heavy soul toils with haste and purpose
One more wipe, and then the panic’s done
Pale green tile, the crimson fades to nothing
Just in time to flee the morning sun
Just in time to flee the morning sun

You’re in the in between
As I bathe myself misery
You’ll always stay pristine
Locked inside a memory
Oh you’re too close to me
Your voice is somewhere following
You’ve always stayed pristine
Locked inside my memory

Pale Green Tile

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