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when we wrote the songs for hope, the idea was to write something short enough for a 7”, and not just 2 4 minutes songs, but to actually have something like a suite of songs that would fit together, and would be short, but somehow complement each other – I don’t know how well these songs gell, I ended up using a lot of certain jazz chord forms that I hope will contribute to that effect – any way, one of the upshots of this, of having short songs, is the inability to really flesh an idea out in lyrics. I felt like I had had a similar problem on the early recordings and that as things went on I had got rid of some of the vague and abstract nonsense that screaming and hardcore bands get away with on account of their unintelligibility or just brevity, but with ‘conception’ and ‘all’ I sort of regressed. there are still things that I like about the short form from a lyrical perspective, and sometimes that degree of abstraction can be a vehicle for portable applicability for whoever listens, and it’s also nice to have a vehicle for a simple but complicated or otherwise meaningful thought. in the case of conception, that thought was just that it’s rather unbelievable that my parents should have produced me. that they got together at some point 30 years ago and I was the result. and that I am somehow related to them, despite so many apparent differences. which only raises the thought that the maintenance and insistence on that difference may be just a vain pretention on my part, that I may have more in common than I care to admit, and that my own identity, my own uniqueness, really can’t be counted on as much as would make me comfortable. and that each conception, both of idea and of person, contains so much potential, and yet it is hard to deny or avoid the fact that so many of such conceptions turn out to be only disappointment

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Born as a whole human being, halves un-whole All the promise of conception, was a perilous deception Death was at the start if I only looked that far

Time moves the same choices less than sane seem so sensible All the promise of conception is a disappointing lesson Nothing follows through when you’re counting on something true

They could conceive but they couldn’t conceive of me I could believe in everything but me

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from Hope Inscribed On Handbills, released December 8, 2009
chris craig eric

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damezumari Tulsa, Oklahoma

the band - started march 2003, from tulsa,OK. and san diego, ca
in its last recorded form:
craig maricle - drums
chris skillern - bass, voice
stephen paul - guitar, voice
eric titterud - guitar, voice
the band has previously included:
doug johnston (drums) and daniel sutliff (bass), who both played on the first three demos,
blake foster (drums), and aaron thornhill (bass) and mike laughlin (drums) ... more

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