Big Bliss - “A Seat at the Table“

“A Seat at the Table“ off the upcoming record Vital Return by Big Bliss Links to ’Vital Return’ pre-orders and more by Big Bliss here: BIG BLISS IS: TIM RACE, CORY RACE, ROSE BLANSHEI SONG CREDITS: Written & performed by Tim Race, Cory Race, Wallace May Produced & engineered by Jonathan Schenke Mastered by Sarah Register VIDEO CREDITS: Directed, shot, and edited by Tim Race Lighting design, additional camera by Anna Schultz Best boy, mirror wrangling by Chris Curtin Thanks to Tim Murray / 100 White Street Studios ________________________________________________________ I heard the sigh of the tired collective Bellow above me Then it’s muffled in austerity Familiar, another disaster In my generation Body counting as a ceremony Bury, bury it deeper I should work harder Metal bursting from machinery The spirit, the beauty of patience I should drink water Oh the fiction of autonomy Please don’t let it go to waste Please don’t let it go to waste Please don’t ever go away I felt the beat of the passenger pulses Drumming around me Disappearing from our memory Familiar, another event And the victims by proxy The promise of prosperity I’m chasing, or being chased I just have to be smarter Needle the bandit coming after me Get even, climb up the ladder That keeps growing taller Maybe bring it up in therapy Please don’t let it go to waste Please don’t let it go to waste Please don’t ever go away We see that our seat has been taken Our seat at the table The wrong place, the wrong time The wrong reasons Fish in a barrel Existence of evil The bedrock of my memory Shifting, clang in the darkness I learn who I am In the crush of an atrocity Set on us, since we got started Since we began Able-bodied for the company Please don’t let it go to waste Please don’t let it go to waste Please don’t ever look away Please don’t ever go away
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