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Sympathetic Sway

from Figurines by Impressive Mess

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As the 2nd track off the debut album, Figurines, Sympathetic Sway takes an in-depth look at a former working class man and his struggle to survive after he’s been cut from a large corporation during an unforeseen downturn. “Who sent their health to the honest mind standing up alone half the time?” After days, months and years had been loyally given to the company, this middle-aged family man was cast aside by big business and bad decisions. It’s an all too common theme throughout this day and age; certainly one that many families have encountered within the last generation alone. Well, this one was about Owen and how his new life began outside his four walls and on the street.
“Here’s the last sign of open road and oh… there it goes.” Owen had been an accomplished man throughout most of his career life; however, what began to break him mentally was how his family took the news of him losing his job. Suddenly, his wife left him with their only child until he was able to “figure things out”, as she put it. “They clipped the candle wick too low, that’s one in a row.” Nothing else really seemed to matter at that point as all practical reason went out the window and before he knew it he was resting his back against a brick building a few blocks away from his home. He’d always been curious how bums and beggars ended up on the street and through his own experience he had witnessed his own rapid demise before him. “While cutting all ties you bought for free, this surely won’t serve the enemy.” Oddly enough, he still owned the house he had removed himself from and merely wanted a taste of the life he had come so close to accepting as his fate. “Wrong signs make feet unkind head toward a sight unseen” – no one wants to watch their life’s plan unravel in front of them. Simply tasting defeat was enough for him after pondering this never-ending loop of a thought regarding the transient obliging folks before him – “Now would they pay a coin that lost the touch of a sympathetic sway in front of me?” Back off the building and ass off the ground, Owen returns home to rebuild, regain and reexamine his choices to move forward and reclaim his chosen identity – “And for the right night, a backslide show… oh does it glow.”

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Here’s the last sign of open road
Oh there it goes
And for the right night a backslide show
Oh does it glow
They’re keeping warm and call for themselves

Fold the map hide the way you know and oh never loan
It’s not the first waterhole you’ve shown while skipping stones
So innocent when all came for their open halls tinted walls
They clipped the last candle wick too low that’s one in a row

And who sent their health to the honest mind standing up alone half the time
On my shelf lay the waiting wishing they could say

Within a day their mess had been up and out of grey
Now would they pay a coin that lost the touch of sympathetic sway in front of me

Wrong signs make feet unkind heading for a sight unseen
Lost up in those parting feathers the next opening

So if the weather calls our show so minimal
Stretch out like a pole the roots will grow a whole centerfold
Let’s have the whole opera sing we’ll try keeping clean
And what if all the wrecks fill up in tow the goal as you know

You’ll have to fall on the wheel that rolls my way and opens every door
And become those eyes that stuck with me
While cutting all ties you bought for free
This happening surely won’t serve the enemy

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from Figurines, track released July 9, 2009

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Impressive Mess Los Angeles, California

Since beginning in the summer of 2008, Impressive Mess has cultivated a unique soundscape of americana, grunge, folk, and blues based rock and roll. While best described at times as gritty, melodic, punchy, eclectic, and “hook-rich”, the LA based band shows no limitations in their writing ability and style. ... more

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