A country-tinged song about not wanting to be buried in that cemetery you always see when you're leaving nyc on the chinatown bus. Like Only Sweetness much later, it was incredibly theraputic and calming to write. Sometimes you really can excise your demons in song.
lyrics
Please don’t bury me by the highway, though it’s true
that I was long in wandering. In search of things
always just round the bend.
Time divides into smaller and smaller sides.
You’ll never see your life end,
so just relax, it’s not a test we’re here for.
Forgive yourself your life.
Please don’t bury me by the highway, noisy and gray.
Let me fall forgotten; no monument an embarrassment to my memory.
When I go, some endless evening,
be not sorrowful for me.
You go on. Pick up where we left off.
Home, it follows you.
please don’t bury me by the highway, underneath famous eyes
spent cigarettes and plastic cups, multicolored lies
When I go, some endless evening,
be not sorrowful for me.
You go on. Pick up where we left off.
Home, it follows you.
Plinky shoegaze-inflected guitar rock confronts the world with both nihilism and hope on the sophomore release Philadelphia band Knifeplay. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 1, 2022