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cinderblocks

by Josaleigh Pollett

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ABOUT THIS SONG:

Cinderblocks is a song about two people that love each other, but their hurt and anger is so big, that they forgot how to trust and forgive and get back to loving.

Because of their love, they don't want to hurt each other, so they each build an effigy of the other out of sticks and thistle and weeds from their garden. They burn them together with their love notes, take a picture of the ashes, and walk away. It's about letting go and wanting what you don't have and holding onto hate for someone else the way you hold onto the hate for yourself sometimes.

At least that's what I was thinking of when I wrote it.

lyrics

LYRICS:

Don't tell me how you feel - this isn't peace.
They broke into the house, left handprints on the screen.
You've got a leg up on me - you know my songs
and what they say - you sing along.

What you thought before - you ran out of breath.
I can hear you curse my name so softly through the vents.
I am made of stone; could be forgot.
Collecting dust while you leave my love notes out.

Can't give you what you need. A piece of mind.
A steadfast lover that keeps your time.
Wish cinderblocks were red instead of gray.
I'll slam the door and walk the year we had away.

I am doomed to make the same mistakes:
not knowing who I love or how to tell the care from hate.
Foxtails and field thistle, tinder on the flame.
Hear the fire whisper reasons not to stay.

Everybody thinks they know a fix for what we've seen.
Take this picture - ain't she lovely?
In the garden by the weeds.
In the garden by the weeds.

credits

released February 17, 2022
Lyrics by Josaleigh Pollett.
Music and arrangement by Josaleigh Pollett and Jordan Watko.
Mixed by Jordan Watko.
Mastered by Andrew Goldring.

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Josaleigh Pollett Salt Lake City, Utah

Tender and thoughtful DIY indie rock. The band is currently Josaleigh Pollett on writing and singing the lyrics and strumming some of those guitars, and Jordan Watko on literally everything else.

header photo by Kyle Ford. Bio art by @HelveticaBlanc
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