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I wrote this while working at my first job as a technology aide at a local newspaper. Those were the days when I got more song inspiration from random events than a broken heart though I still managed to wedge a broken heart into THIS song. There was an article I came across about two ships that ran into each other due to an issue with the lighthouse. I found the imagery beautifully tragic and equated it to two people in a rocky relationship. It took awhile for the album recording to grow on me. My home demo didn't have ANY drums and I initially didn't like the warbling synth line Frank came up with, but it grew on me.

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Two vessels in the docks by the harbor walls
are churning ash and flame
The steel bar frame over which they fuss
Where we once joined there’s a sign of rust

We hope that nothing happens (there’s no guarantee)
We hope that nothing happens (there’s no guarantee)

Smoking powerhouses, exposed metallic barges
End up brokenhearted
Which one will survive when ships collide

The passion that once lingered between you and me
was bottled up and modeled after failed ideals

I'm drowning as you're sinking, regretting as I’m thinking
We can’t pick up the pieces
We’re scattered by the tide when ships collide

credits

from Favourite Hallucination EP, released August 1, 2006
Jared Colinger - vox, guitars, keys, bass, xylophone
Frank Lenz - drums, percussion, bass, keys, xylophone, bgvox

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The Enigmatic Foe Knoxville, Tennessee

With sharp lyrics, the playful pop bite of the best of the 70s and 80s, and the kind of self-deprecation usually reserved for a Woody Allen movie, Jared Colinger's lyrics run the gamut from the joy of new love to disillusionment with the old, from wanting to like yourself to being afraid of what we have in our minds.

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