Out of Your Way

Track 11 on Novella Minor. Sort of the climax to the story, if the album can be taken as a story, before the conclusion in Steppes. One of our more energetic/driving songs. On its own, it’s about the moment you realize someone you’ve long admired or even lusted after is not the person you thought they were. Perhaps they’ve deceived you of their character and life’s ambitions, or maybe they’re traded your connection for a shinier one with someone taller. haha. Something like that.

Out of Your Way
In the last 18 minutes of carrying on,
I sink into the rhythm of another smouldering dawn.
You whisper something and then fade away.
While walking I pause, and sing to the river, which is my favourite song.

And you go out of your way to make it hard for me to love anything.
So I move out of your way.

I’m into persuasion, so stay thin and move on.
The candied invasion, a breaking of laws.
The plastic sedation of your own shelter and thought.
The new complications and their varying cause.

And you go out of your way to make it hard for me to love anything.
So I move out of your way.

All your weapons have been fashioned from the crudest implements,
but they get the damage done okay, don’t they?

You go out of your way to make it hard for me to love anything,
so I move out of your way.

After all this time you’ve proved you’re not for me.