when she walked into the room i knew
somehow no one different would do
i knew somewhere in those two great plains
there lay, in swathes of dust and clay
the same tiny grains of truth
when i saw her standing there
i knew there were greater reasons to care
i know there's a starry ball in a distant hall
and our dreams, they'll squeeze them all
into some small sad illicit affair
but i challenged them all to find
a dream so explosive and awesome and kind
the dream that devoured my heart in a dimly lit bar
and all the stars are too fucking far
to really exist anyway
and summer spoke its name
decreed there's a sweetness in all pain
the rain from a thousand skies couldn't taint these eyes
and we dance while winter cries
at its so slow steady demise
and just around the time
you feel like no warmer sun could shine
the moment the bomb first struck
first stroke of luck
that's when i knew she'd always be mine
Slaughter Beach, Dog—a.k.a. Modern Baseball’s Jake Ewald—deliver taut, tuneful indie rock, effortlessly melodic and soaring. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2016