Shaky Foundations

from In Folkedelic Country by B.R.Mackie

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lyrics

Well the winds they shake the foundations
As a storm grows behind your eyes
Let it carry me back to the one I love
Far from those heathen fires

Keep faith and science on the highest shelf
Way out of my furthest reach
For I’m lost inside the haze of life
Where neither will bring me relief

When all the meaning slips away

Recurring flashes of sinister beings
Have plagued my waking days
For as long as I can truthfully recall
But what it means I dare not say

And as I lay awake at night I know
It’ll only make things worse
What conclusion will all these festering thoughts
Really bring but a lifetime of hurt?

When all the meaning slips away

I’m just interference
Static in space
Disconnected phone line
From the bills I never paid

When the fates of friends come rattling in
Down that old familiar road
To the town where I was born and raised
I’ll follow the flood lines home

I’m just interference
I’m static in space

credits

from In Folkedelic Country, released May 1, 2016
Personnel:

Tom McGrath – Bass, Out-of-Tune Upright Piano
B.R. Mackie – Everything else

Music and Lyrics by Ben R. Mackie
Recorded and Mixed by Ben R. Mackie above Enid’s, Brooklyn, NY
Additional tracking at Laneway Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering, Brooklyn, NY
Cover artwork by Hilary Faye

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B.R.Mackie Brooklyn, New York

Australian-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter. Plays swirling, lo-fi, psych-folk-rock.

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