We Are Temporary, the wired and weird brainchild of Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, is as much the result of a musical obsession as a philosophical one. Drawing from influences in contemporary electronic music, dream pop, darkwave, industrial, ambient, and post-rock, his music oscillates between tenderness and violence, confessionalism and vitriol, bursts of optimism and nihilism. His remix of Empathy Test's Here Is The Place brings out the inherent darkness of the track and accentuates its emotional depth.
lyrics
Drive me slow, down the road
Sound the horn on every bend.
Bow your heads, respect the dead
For he had many, many friends.
Now follow the road, through the tunnel of trees
To the big, wide open field.
And take a left, up the muddy track
To the house where I grew up...
And here is the place, when I die,
I want you to bury me
Beneath this old, willow tree
Enough of an epitaph for me.
And here is the place, when I die,
I want you to bury me
These friendly roots will hold my bones
And I will never be alone.
Stop the car, on the track
Stoop to kiss me - I can't kiss you back
Shed no tears, for all the years
You've made up for what I lacked.
And heave me up, to head height
On the shoulders of my friends.
And lay me down, on the lawn
When all the curtains have been drawn...
And here is the place, when I die,
I want you to bury me
Beneath this old, willow tree
Enough of an epitaph for me
And here is the place, when I die,
I want you to bury me
These friendly roots will hold my bones
And I will never be alone.
credits
from Throwing Stones Remixed,
released August 18, 2015
Isaac Howlett, Adam Relf, Mark Roberts
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