{"id":183,"date":"2025-07-06T00:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/?p=183"},"modified":"2025-07-06T01:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:03:17","slug":"jam-of-the-week-caverns-by-thank-you-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"jam of the week: Caverns, by Thank You Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/03-Caverns.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Verse 1]<br>Don&#8217;t keep on wandering<br>From all those memories you should forget<br>If only for one day (If only for one day)<br>The long road has been unkind<br>And these nights are filled with pain<br>You wish it all away at the end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Pre-Chorus]<br>So tell me<br>Would he be just like me?<br>Just a part of your suffering<br>Just another disease<br>Like his father<br>Born to die slow<br>Just a no one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Chorus]<br>I feel like I lack the words to say<br>No, what you need me to say now<br>So I should cool it down<br>Just to be straight, this is more than I can take<br>Anything but what&#8217;s growing inside your womb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Verse 2]<br>Choices we make cut so deep<br>Between to kill, and to keep<br>I kinda like the way you try to question conscience<br>I said there&#8217;s no other way you&#8217;re gonna break him out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Pre-Chorus]<br>So tell me<br>Would he be just like me?<br>Just a part of your suffering<br>Just another disease<br>Like his father (don&#8217;t want to keep you, boy)<br>Born to die slow (born to die slow)<br>I said he&#8217;s born to die alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Chorus]<br>I feel like I lack the words to say<br>No, what you need me to say now<br>So I should cool it down<br>Just to be straight, this is more than I can take<br>Anything but what&#8217;s growing inside your womb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Bridge 1]<br>I said who, I know just what you&#8217;ll find<br>All I know can tear me open wide<br>So take everything, oh why can&#8217;t I<br>Take everything<br>Take everything, I earned it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Bridge 2]<br>It&#8217;s been a long December<br>And there&#8217;s a beast within my bones<br>It&#8217;s too late to sell much of anything but the pouring rain<br>Like hell you burn<br>So don&#8217;t try to remember<br>Cause there&#8217;s a beast within my bones<br>It&#8217;s too late to sell us much anything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a long December<br>And there&#8217;s a burning within my bones<br>Been a long December<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Guitar Solo]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Chorus]<br>I feel like I lack the words to say<br>No, what you need me to say now<br>So I should cool it down<br>Just to be straight, this is more than I can take<br>Anything but what&#8217;s growing inside your womb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so yeah i have no idea what the lyrics are about but they sound pretty angsty.. they fill that kind of niche that songs often do for me where the meaning is obscured enough that i can apply the lyrics to whichever character i want, or even myself on a bad day i guess xD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but when it comes to <em>thank you scientist<\/em> the music overall is what i&#8217;m here for. i agonized for like a full hour over which song from <em>stranger heads prevail<\/em> i was gonna pick. i usually listen to the full album front to back: its a composed, continuous experience that i highly recommend for your next commute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as soon as <em>caverns<\/em> starts, TYS put their time signature chops on display. a few of their songs have me totally stumped when it comes to counting along xD notable mention to <em>psychopomp<\/em>!! hoooly shit they have some magic going on. but these songs are headbangers either way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">they carry from all these gritty little 5:8 riffs or whatever to like, hard 4 on the floor emo metal seamlessly. one of those bands where if you pay attention to any individual instrument you&#8217;ll be impressed both by their individual skill and the skill of the composer\/s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Verse 1]Don&#8217;t keep on wanderingFrom all those memories you should forgetIf only for one day (If only for one day)The long road has been unkindAnd these nights are filled with painYou wish it all away at the end [Pre-Chorus]So tell meWould he be just like me?Just a part of your sufferingJust another diseaseLike his fatherBorn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jamoftheweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}