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Counting Backwards from Nonzero

from Recount by Disappearing Ink

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I wrote this song in November 2020, about a month after "Nervous Breakdowns." The first week of January, I stayed in a cabin for three nights in rural Western Maryland. Cell service was almost nonexistent. On January 5, I set up mics to record vocals to this and two other songs written during the second half of 2020. On January 6, I stepped outside to check my cell signal and got this text from my wife: "They've stormed the Capitol. Barricades and guns drawn in the Senate." I went back in and recorded these lyrics and spent the night mixing.

lyrics

Shoes on the table, coat on the floor.
Why bother to part your hair anymore
During this renegotiation
Of what counts as civilization?
You'll trouble the air in front of your mouth
Just to say that north is south
When scofflaws offer a dear reward
For going over overboard.

Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Making sense is my self-defense.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.

Got some passports for the kids.
Taught 'em that the meaning of is is is.
Said nothing is certain but that we love you.
Yes we are loving our children while you
Fold twenty dollar bills
To see the towers spill
In a bunker in the hills.

Counting backwards from nonzero

Reading poems to the mirror
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Now the plot is getting clearer
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My fulfillment drawing nearer
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Everything I need is here

Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Making sense is my self-defense.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.

Counting backwards from nonzero

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from Recount, released March 5, 2021
Lawrence Lanahan: drums, bass, vocals, guitar, Yamaha CP-30 electric piano

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Disappearing Ink Baltimore, Maryland

New album 6/1/23 from Baltimore songwriter/producer Lawrence Lanahan's band Disappearing Ink! On The Charm of Abstraction, Lanahan abandons guitar for mesmerizing synths, intricately programmed beats, imaginative sampling, and occasional rhymes. Even with a new sound, his core songwriting voice--“melodic and lyrical invention,” “chilling chord progressions,” “rare honesty and power"- remains. ... more

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