REV SIMPKINS + JIM SIMPKINS - Headwater

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Written during a period of repeated hospitalisations with Menninigitis, “Headwaters” is inspired by the hallucinations I had during this time, which presented very vivid images of decay and death - often of infants - and imagery of floods and “chaos waters” which are used as a metaphor for violence and brutal instability in the Abrahamic scriptures. It is also a priest’s meditation on the relationship between baptism and death. Many of the synth sounds are attempts to recreate the wooshing tinnitus that accompanied each head fever. This song is a tribute to Damo Suzuki of Can.

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When the waters rose
They raged in through my ears
And swilled around my skull
Till I was disappeared
In surging morphine swells
And waves of fever dreams
While tides of visions broke
In unrelenting streams

You rule the raging of the seas

From water I was drawn
In water I am drowned
The snake swallows its tail
Where drowning men are found
So sink me into death
To draw me to your life
In cataracts and gales
The purest Grace abounds

You rule the raging of the seas

Wave envelops wave
Pain embraces pain
Every suffering new
Yet every suffering same
Buried and submerged
In your waterspouts
Am I being born
Through these dying pains?

I was born and I was dead
Pour your water on my head!

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from Cease Silence, released March 1, 2024
Written and performed by Matthew Jonathan Simpkins and James William Robert Simpkins

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