Name: Orderly and Astray
Duration: P00H04M12S
Description: Like a lot of our songs, this one started with an acoustic guitar, but as we started to build the rhythm section, we wanted to experiment more with guitar tone, aiming for something between mechanical and abrasive. Lyrically, it’s the story of a man estranged from his mother because of their history. Like a lot of our songs, we felt it was right to leave it unresolved.

Orderly and Astray

from Unheard, Unseen by Small Souls

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Like a lot of our songs, this one started with an acoustic guitar, but as we started to build the rhythm section, we wanted to experiment more with guitar tone, aiming for something between mechanical and abrasive. Lyrically, it’s the story of a man estranged from his mother because of their history. Like a lot of our songs, we felt it was right to leave it unresolved.

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4 a.m., he wakes again
From the allergies and the rain
And on his breaks he doesn’t shave
Trying to hide his mother’s face
Every spring he begins
The filing of his sins
He put away
Orderly and astray

She calls him twice in one night
Leaving messages, rambling
Her head’s a cloud of loss and doubt
Did she touch him where she shouldn’t see?

Every spring she begins
The filing of her sins
She put away
Orderly and astray

He loves her still, he hates her still
For what she tried to explain
She loves him still, she hates herself
For giving up her blood and memory

Every spring they begin
To talk a little more again
Until it rains
Orderly and estranged

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from Unheard, Unseen, released September 8, 2017

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Blinders

Apr 2024
Unheard, Unseen

Sep 2017
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Jan 2013
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Apr 2009

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