Tremors

atmospheric electronic · post-rock 4:00

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Lyrics

I can feel it in the floorboards Something shifting underground All the things I thought were solid Making such a different sound There's no stopping what's already started There's no closing what's been opened wide These are tremors, not the breaking This is how the new comes through Everything I was is shaking Making room for something true Used to fear the ground would swallow Every question that I held Now I'm learning how to follow What the cracks have always spelled These are tremors, not the breaking This is how the new comes through Everything I was is shaking Making room for something true Let it move Let it move through me Let it prove What I'm meant to be These are tremors, not the breaking This is how the new comes through Everything I was is shaking Making room for something true Something's coming Something's coming...

The story behind the song

This song is the moment the floor starts moving under everything you trusted, and your whole body wants to plant your feet and make it stop. The things you were standing on turn out not to be what you thought they were. Feeling them shift is the most honest information you have had in a long time.

What the fear gets wrong is simple. The shaking is how room gets made. You don’t get to something truer without the old certainty coming loose first, and certainty never comes loose quietly.

Trevor sings it, the human side. By the end he stops bracing. He stops trying to hold the ground still and lets it move, because that was the only way through the whole time. If the floor is steady under you right now, this is a good song about change. If it is moving while you read this, you already know it is yours.

T.J. Kelley