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Beat the Bell (The End and the Beginning)

from The End and the Beginning by Drownbeat

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    From its inception, The End and the Beginning was meant to be the most hopeful and acoustic-sounding Drownbeat album yet, and that is exactly what it has become. Unlike the first two Drownbeat releases, which utilized many different songwriters and vocalists, The End and the Beginning was written by only two people: Dan Milligan and Bill Acuña of Chicago’s Despotic Hall of Fame. In addition, the lengthy list of performers was replaced with a small group of musicians, giving it a much more intimate and band-like feeling than the first two albums. And while it’s not necessarily a “concept album” in the traditional sense, the songs on the album are very tightly bound together with a common theme. The result is Drownbeat’s most consistent musical offering to date.

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lyrics

Blue linstock / white sulphur / the sunrise started with a spark
Red silver uncovered the wood ash that walked upon the wind
The heavens above embraced the embers
the crackle of sticks asynchronous
Cradle and carve the germination
staccato and stark in isolation
deliver the fuels that brought us here to exorcise the oxygen

The end and the beginning, perpetuate progress
So beat the bell till no one rests and caution us all, and caution us all

Imagine bright angels sent down to weld a forest floor
Devoid of discernment, surrounded by intensity
Flashover again, flashpoints and fanning
like crowning a void, too volatile
Challenged until we heard the sound the wind spun round to ventilate
Whenever we want a conflagration
Caught in a race of negative space
deliver the fuels that brought us here to suffocate the oxygen

The end and the beginning perpetuate progress
So beat the bell till no one rests and caution us all, and caution us all
The end and the beginning perpetuate progress
so ring the bell till no one rests, it wasn’t our fault, it wasn’t our fault

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from The End and the Beginning, released September 18, 2018
Written by Dan Milligan and Bill Acuña

Recorded, engineered, produced and mixed by Dan Milligan at Smoulderman and Populist Studios
Mastered by James Scott at Populist Studios, Wheaton, IL
Artwork by Dan Milligan

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